Fluent in Arabic

I quote below the last paragraph in an article I found today on the Mondoweiss weblog. Aubrey Farber, a Jewish girl from Maine visiting Israel, wrote the piece. She is astonished (I'm not quite sure why) to find two Israeli brothers entirely fluent in Arabic and describing themselves as Palestinians. She goes in for an extended meditation on "identities," etc. Aubrey belongs to the younger Jewish-American cohort who are getting set to ditch the racist Zionist agenda and the Israeli government that implements it. I say "getting set to." They haven't done it yet, but it looks promising, at least on Philip Weiss's M0ndoweiss site.


I must say I enjoy the thought that a mere 30 years might bring this change. Although I question whether we will all have 30 years to wait for it. The quote: 


“We are the future” one boy says jokingly. “It's not a joke,” says his brother. The only liveable future is one in which the us vs. them mentality dissolves into the shameful recesses of history. They believe that soon – maybe in thirty years – Israel as we know it will be gone, and they'll be prepared. They will already be rid of the mentality in which everyone is everyone else's enemy. By internalizing both sides of a divisive dichotomy, they are the future. I, too, am a part of this future; we are dismantling divisive rhetoric, imposed and perpetuated by the mainstream media and created by Israel's political needs, by taking these words, redefining them, and crafting our own identities to reflect who want to be, not who someone else told us we were."
End quote.