The Kibya reprisal took place five years after the War of Independence and 14 years before the Six Day War. The nucleus of Liebovitch's subsequent criticism of the Six Day War is already in evidence Liebovitch does not fail to shoulder the responsibility for Kibya, it was the responsibility of those young Israelis raised and educated in traditional Zionist education, in the concepts of humanism and the open society. And Liebovitch analyzed this question with a surgeon's unfailing precision. The secular realm has become endowed with the aura of sacredness. Nation, flag, people, all can and must be submitted to the judgement of a higher criterion.
None are above criticism, in and of themselves.
Only in pursuit of the really holy can man act with complete trust. Nothing else is sacrosanct. Zionism lost its enlightened aspect, and Liebovitch, upholding relentlessly the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, calls for a complete withdrawal from the territories. For Liebovitch, the idea of a Greater Israel is utterly fallacious, because it is a variant of nationalism masquerading as religion. The second is the desire to dominate another and force him to act according to another's will.