“if you put most of our young people in the army, they’ll see a paradox. They’ll see it strives to be a people’s army … involved in building up the country. On the other hand, it’s a brutal occupation force, similar to the Germans in World War II. Similar, not identical … We’ve become cruel to ourselves as well, but mainly to the occupied population, using the excuse of the war against terror.” Avraham Shalom Shin Bet-1980-86

“The tragedy of Israel’s security debate is that we don’t realize we face a frustrating situation, in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.”Amy Ayalon Shin Bet \1996-2000

the 1995 assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by Yigal Amir, a radical, Orthodox Jew, who they say was incited by right-wing Israeli politicians and rabbis.

Rabin’s widow, Leah, blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then head of Israel’s conservative Likud party, for contributing to the atmosphere that led to her husband’s death, vigorously denied by Netanyahu and his supporters.

Things are worse now than they ever were

Source: GOLDSTEIN: The harshest critics of Israel are Israelis | Toronto Sun