Following historical admonitions to know the enemy I went everywhere the State Department told us not to and wish to bring to the attention of one and all these prophetic words: "[ Israel ] ... is organising, on the territories which it has taken, an occupation which cannot work without oppression, repression and expulsions - and if there appears resistance to this, it will in turn be called “terrorism". ( French President Charles de Gaulle, a few months after the 1967 war). And a few months later I was backpacking around the Mediterranean and the young people like me at the backpacker hostels were talking furiously about what these Israeli squatter settlements were all about and we all