""One million Arabs," Perrin declared, "are not worth a Jewish fingernail."

* how much of this attitude is informed by the Talmud? this sounds like straight racism.

"Israelis, too, are a traumatized people, and their nation's current actions are driven in part by a hard determination, born of the Holocaust, to "never again go like sheep to the slaughter." But if "never again" drives the politics of reprisal, few seem to notice that the reprisals themselves are obscenely out of scale to the provocation: For every crude Qassam rocket falling harmlessly, far from its target, dozens, sometimes hundreds of shells rain down on the Palestinians. For one missing soldier, a million and a half Gazans are made to suffer. In Israel, today, it is "never again" gone mad."

* there is a hiding behind the holocaust to justify this behavior - the majority of Jews were used by the European/American powers in league with the "court Jews" to set up a Western outpost in the middle east.