I felt a duty to send them pages of dialogue to ask them whether they felt I was being fair. I had no right to stand on the stage and pretend to be Eran Baniel unless I first asked Eran Baniel. I careless enough to attribute things they had said about Arafat and the Palestinian regime. When it came to the settlers, however, I had been so taken aback, and so keen to convey the sharpness of their attitudes, that the only available route was to change their names. I knew that if I sent the authors the text of their remarks they would deny having made them.
Settlers live, necessarily, in a bubble of ideological conviction.
After I had changed, I met them in the small waiting room. I could tell at once they were not happy. Like a demagogue. I am told 600 a night. It hurts me to think that every night you are telling people about Israel, and that they are hearing about it from a man who has entirely missed the point of it.