IDF slippery slope to fascism

"When the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising, broke out in late 1987, I was teaching at Tel Aviv University. I was appalled by the instruction of Yitzhak Rabin, then Minister of Defence, to the IDF to 'break the arms and legs' of Palestinian youths who were throwing rocks at heavily armed troops. I wrote a letter to him warning that, based on my research into the indoctrination of the armed forces of Nazi Germany, I feared that under his leadership the IDF was heading down a similarly slippery path."
- Omer Bartov
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-histo…