When UN was preparing report....

I wanted to share with you a piece of memoirs by a Jewish girl, 6-years-oldat the time in 1947 when UN commission was working in British mandate to establish facts. She was living in the Old City (as her family for last 5-6 generations) and this is how she recoils the atmosphere when shopping with her mother on Arab market (as for years):

" We left the vegetable market and turned into a dark, narrow alleyway. Everywhere we saw black eyes glittering with hatred. As we passed the vendors fell silent and little Arab boys stopped to point at us and run their fingers across their throats. The meaning was clear: Just you wait... soon we will slaughter you!
We walked a few more steps, and I held on to Imma (mother) so tightly that I couldn't even tremble. If only we were home! Imma walked faster, dragging me along. Why, why did we ever go to the shuk? From inside the shops and from both sides of the street all eyes were turned on us... fiery eyes, burning with hatred. Finally we were out of their sight.
(...)
"I was so scared" I said, my relief now evident. "Do you know who I felt like?"
"Who my darling?"
"Like Little Red Riding Hood when the wolf was about to swallow her. Did you see their eyes? They were staring at us from every corner. Not just the eyes of one wolf, like in the story. Many, many wolves were lying in wait for us, waiting for their pray."

Puah made her mum promise never to go to shuk again. For me - mother myself - it doesn't take a lot to imagine how concentrated hatred it had to be to be so perceived by 6-years-old and recalled after long years.
Today some people talk how the peaceful state was possible in 1947. They relay on legends  by some pro-Arab activists. The reality was hatred as described (even before voting) and attack on new-born Israel by 7 Arab armies a day after its proclamation.

Certainly there were fanatics and peace-sicker on both sides, there always are, but as Jews were concentrated on the task of building their country and overjoyed to have it (even small), Arabs were concentrated not on developing their part of former British mandate - had it been so maybe 2-state solution would have been something we would know and never asked if possible - but on estroying Jewish part.

Just think - how much hatred does it take for a child to feel it, remember it and recall it after 30 years as described above.....