The national educational system contributes to imbue this idea from the youth. The disgust that military activities against the Palestinian cause in some Israeli soldiers is increasingly intensive. It is the case, for example, Yehuda Shaul, founder of the Organization Breaking the Silence (breaking the silence), which is now officer after serving as a soldier. Your comments are not wasted: when you’re at a check point, force them to wait much longer than necessary, sometimes for hours, and take a Palestinian at random and give him a beating, from every fifteen or twenty that pass, so that the rest be afraid and be quiet. Only thus, with four soldiers more, dominate them, that there are thousands. On patrol missions says: when you enter Gaza with match truck and you see a new car, even if you have space in the Road, raisins on top.
And you also shoot to water tanks. To scare them, to respect you, because that is the logic that we are taught to Israeli soldiers. His conclusion is overwhelming: the check points are not used to prevent Palestinians from entering Israel; they serve so that the reality does not come into Israel. Because this is a company of soldiers, three years when we are young and then all go through the army one month a year. And we all do that. So there is the wall of silence, denial, because we are all responsible and do not want to admit. Added: They are the victims, us perpetrators.
But as perpetrators, we also pay a price. This is a society unable to look into the eyes to the truth, their own actions. Therefore, it is a morally sick society. The salvation of a crazed Israel may not come out; not even of an international revulsion. Can only come from those who dare to denounce it and intensify their efforts to create a new Israel that abomine much of what has been its most recent past.