The Ironies of the War in Israel

The ironies here are so interwoven with painful memories that it's just so hard to peel this onion, but let's just try to point to a couple of the ironies. So in the war, the big debate historically about this within Israel and of course by world historians, a number of Palestinians when the war broke out by Palestinians I mean people living within what are now the borders of Israel. And after the war was over a citizen of a state no longer under Arab control was or was no longer a different kind of place. It wasn't a country before that.