This is Benny Morris. "The destroyer of national myths became the manufacturer of new myths that portrayed the Israelis as "righteous victims" (to use the title of one of his books) and the Palestinians as Muslim fanatics with unlimited aims. The language used by Morris was particularly shocking for its racist undertones. In a 2004 interview with Ha'aretz, he described the Arab world as "barbarian" and the Palestinians as wild animals who had to be locked up in "something like a cage"."