‘I was educated to believe whatever we did to the Palestinians would save us from another Holocaust’
I’ve often questioned how the IDF are able to conduct themselves in the manner in which we’ve seen in the past few months. We need to remember that early education cements your perception of the world. The same way we were indoctrinated in our primary and secondary schools, to believe in some aspects of history, to trust only some people who tell us the news…etc IDF soldiers and generally, Israelis, have also gone through an intensive and all-encompassing process to get them to the point we see today. This doesn’t detract or excuse from anything they’ve done at all; I’m just trying to highlight how ingrained their disdain and hatred for Palestinian life is.