#GideonLevy of #Haaretz on the former head of Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate, #AharonHaliva:

»Maj. Gen. Haliva revealed the truth about the mainstream, not only in the army, but within Israeli society in general.[…]

That is how a "moderate" #IDF general talks. […]

"For every victim of October 7, 50 #Palestinians had to die. No matter if they are #children. I'm not speaking out of a sense of vengeance but delivering a message for future generations. There is nothing we can do; they need a #Nakba from time to time, in order to feel the price."«

Haaretz

Haaretz via archive.is

Compare this to the #Posen speeches of #HeinrichHimmler:

»Most of you here know what it means when 100 corpses lie next to each other, when there are 500 or when there are 1,000. To have endured this and at the same time to have remained a decent person — with exceptions due to human weaknesses — has made us tough, and is a glorious chapter that has not and will not be spoken of. Because we know how difficult it would be for us if we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and rabble-rousers in every city, what with the bombings, with the burden and with the hardships of the war.«

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posen_speeches

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@katzenberger @palestine @israel
ok, several things:
1. This is not a moderate stance, rather a very strikingly Likud to Zehut one.
2. This is not neccessarily his own opinion: it is Israeli military *policy*, I think it's a mistranslation.
3. How is this paragraph out of the posen speeches related, at all? It just speaks about death and how Germans are better and Jews suck, doesn't say anything about vengenance.
@katzenberger @palestine @israel
Also, the policy itself is written in a much more humane way, though still disgusting. This is just a horrible translation (unless this general decided to "elaborate", no idea who this guy is).