Israeli officers openly invoked Nazi methods in Palestinian operations

Evidence

This erosion of the right to a presence, even while acknowledging an abstract right to self-determination, underpinned the steady eviction from the Kingdom of Moral Ends. Over time, then, and perhaps as a response to politics on the ground, Palestinians came to lose as a consequence any claim to moral protection, to being a beloved neighbor. A senior Israeli military officer during the second intifada implored Israeli military personnel chillingly to be “Judeo-Nazis” in order, somewhat ambiguously, “to beat the Palestinians.” Another officer, even if self-consciously, opined uncannily in the daily press that “If our job is to seize a densely packed refugee camp or take over the Nablus Casbah … [we] must above all else analyze and bring together the lessons of past battles, even – shocking though this might appear – to analyze how the German Army operated in the Warsaw Ghetto.” — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 604

Categorization

• SHARE: The specific officer quote about studying German Army Warsaw Ghetto operations is a sharp primary source worth sending to someone working on military ethics or settler-colonial studies.
• QUESTION: Worth verifying the exact source of both officer quotes; the ‘Judeo-Nazis’ citation is a powerful claim needing sourcing.