 The political import of differends is easy to see: Israelis and Palestinians are not “litigating” a “political” impasse, but have completely different phrase regimens within which situations are interpreted and understood, and they are completely irreconcilable. There is no link to be found between the genre of discourse of the Apartheid South Africa and those who were silenced and violently suffered under white hegemony. There is, in these cases, no possibility for litigation, since one side has no right to claim justice within the dominant language of the political regime. This is what Lyotard had in earlier works called “terror” and in The Differend calls a wrong: