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I'm going to be apolitical regarding the Hebron evacuation, since I'm pretty sure my views on it are rather predictable. But reading some news reports shocked me in a way I havn't really expected.

Anyone whose non-Jewishness was discovered received the appropriate treatment: The wild, bleary-eyed little ones mercilessly hurled curses and insults at them. They are mere children and already experts in racial theory. Every possible epithet was hurled at the soldiers, but they, perhaps on orders from above, were silent as though catatonic. Their faces showed no emotion.

"If someone comes to kill you, kill him first!" shouted one of the children at a Border Policeman with a non-Jewish name [both Russian and Ethiopian immigrants and Druze were among the security units present], moments after the evacuation of the families from the market began on Tuesday. The youngster brought his face close to that of the soldier until they were almost touching. "It says in the Torah that I have to kill you. You are from the seed of Amalek ... You are a goy [gentile] and you are not allowed to tread on this holy ground. Get out of here, you and your friends!"

"You're not Jewish at all. You're a Nazi. We'll kill you and all the Nazis who are here." Other children, dripping with hatred, surround the group of soldiers and observe them with amusement, as in a zoo. Their mothers sit on the side and observe their glorious progeny, barely concealing their enjoyment.

"They aren't Jews," he says, pointing at the hundreds of men in uniform. "We are the real Jews." His father nods in agreement: "You're asking about the soldiers, so I'll tell you. They aren't Jews. Look at them, they're Russians, Ethiopians and Druze. And even those who call themselves Jews are not Jews. They're Zionists and leftists."

Seventy years have passed, which I guess means we can all throw away the book on 30s Germany. You know where we've heard these statments before? Nazi germany, where kids would run along streets and attack Jews and threaten them.
Lack of appreciation for the irony in History is not something I'm known for, however this is quite new. I think the Haaretz editorial said it best, this feels strikingly similar to the way American evanglicals act in their summer camps. Trained, no, brainwashed from birth to hate all others, a sure belief they are on the path for the best, this is far too similar to totalitarian regimes for me to be comfortable.

I wish this note would have been abit longer, but I think this speaks for itself.