Reply #9: The most recent flavor is after WWII; but

[Igel]

the previous flavor was pretty much the same (during WWII), and the flavor before that was trivally different (from 1918-WWII). The power relations were different, but the enmity was pretty much the same. "Flavored with orchid extract" and "vanilla" may sound different, but refer to the same flavor of the same aldehyde.

It's just that the further back you go, the more preconceptions are shattered, and the harder it is to maintain the current belief in perpetual Palestinian rectitude.

Until, of course, you get to times that are ahistorical, in which case the rectitude is again asserted as a fundamental belief.