the joos have forgotten their lessons and practice what the germans taught them; 

In the midst of the fighting in the Gaza Strip, two political psychologists from elite American universities conducted a survey among 521 Israelis. Respondents were presented with a hypothetical scenario: an injured Israeli soldier lies in an area controlled by Palestinian forces. To rescue him, interviewees were told, it would be necessary to shell a Palestinian civilian neighborhood. How many Palestinian civilians would be justified to kill for this purpose? The naïve researchers proposed a scale between 0 and 1,000, hoping to observe a wide range of responses. In practice, about half of the respondents selected the maximum number—1,000. Although the sample was not designed to be representative, the political leanings of respondents skewed only slightly more to the right than those reported in a survey conducted three months later by the Israel Democracy Institute. Moreover, even among those who self-identified as left-wing or left-leaning, about a quarter chose the maximum number.

Some might believe something like ‘after the shock of Hamas’s cruelty on October 7, Israelis have lost the capacity for empathy toward Palestinians.’ Were it not for that massacre, they might say, the numbers would have been different. But Emile Bruneau and Nour Kteily, two political psychologists, conducted this survey in early August 2014. By chance, it was carried out the same week that Israel massacred hundreds of Palestinian civilians in Rafah (an incident known as “Black Friday”), in an incident that brought the survey’s scenario to life. The Israeli army is the people’s army and behaved in line with public opinion. The Chief Military Prosecutor refrained from launching a criminal investigation. In any case, the sequence of events clearly shows that October 7 is not the reason for the devaluation of Palestinian life in the eyes of Israelis...........more.........