What if we had explained the shooting of 56 black protesters at Sharpeville as an understandable "security crackdown" by the South African police. And described black children shot by the police as an act of "child sacrifice" by their parents? What if we had called upon the "terrorist" ANC leadership to "control their own people".

Rafael Eytan, the former Israeli chief of staff, used to talk of the Palestinians as "cockroaches in a glass jar"

Menachem Begin called them "two-legged beasts"

Rabbi Ovdia Yousef, the spiritual head of the Shas party, called them "serpents"

Ehud Barak called them "crocodiles"

Israeli tourism minister, Rehavem Zeevi, called Arafat a "scorpion"

South African regime never called the blacks by such vile names.

woe betide the diplomat or journalist who points this out

a people been so vilified as the Palestinians