“I thought that I’d got to know the Palestinians well. I’ve made six trips this year and had been going to Ramallah every day for the past 16 days. I thought they were kind, hospitable people.”
When I read this part, I burst out laughing at the naivete of this fool. I sense that his biggest disbelief was not that these mentally and culturally medieval people are capable of great violence, but that he was fool enough to believe that they weren’t and he is still not convinced that they are.