“Oh really?! And how was it?” – I get this question from none of my friends when I say that I’ve visited Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
“I went to Auschwitz”
On the other side of the table is just silence, a distracted stare. My usually bubbly friends now seem like the people who don’t know what they are allowed to say, or how to behave.
“I deal with that every day”, I continue. “You can ask whatever you want.”
Nothing. Nobody.
Ruslan Andriyko, a Maidan activist wrote in his Facebook account: ''Three real live residents from the Jordan Valley visited us today)) They gave us a flag and said that they supported the revolution too, and that they flew in from Israel to support the Ukrainians! So I think... With this kind of support, we could win any revolution))''
In these conditions, there can be little expectation of a new Palestinian national identity, based on acceptance of Israel as a Jewish state, and of Jews as humans, emerging any time soon.