The Israel society has surrounded itself with shields, with walls, not only physical walls, but also mental walls... I'll just give these three principles which enable us Israelis to live so easily with this brutal reality. A: Most of the Israelis, if not all of them, deeply believe that we are the chosen people. And if we are the chosen people, we have the right to do whatever we want. B: There were more brutal occupations in history. There were even longer occupations in history, even though the Israeli occupation gets to quite a nice record. But there was never in history an occupation in which an occupier presented himself as the victim. Not only the victim, the only victim around. This also enable any Israeli to live in peace because we are the victims...
But the third set of values is the most dangerous one. And this is the systematic dehumanization of the Palestinians which enables us Israelis to live in peace with everything. Because if they are not human beings like us, then there is not really a question of human rights. And if you scratch under the skin of almost every Israeli, you will find it there. Almost no one will treat the Palestinians as equal human beings like us.
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