Idith Zertal […] cites the diaries and commentaries of Israeli fighters involved in the events of 1948 who were horrified by the cruelty of their fellow Israeli soldiers toward Arab villagers, comparing it to Nazi troops during World War II. Zertal stresses the reversal of rôles was finally complete: “The licensed heirs of the Holocaust had transformed themselves into efficient and murderous ‘Germans.’ While the ‘reincarnation’ of the Nazis […] simple Arab villagers, became by this deed the total victims of the misdeed of transposing the Holocaust into the local conflict” (p. 173).

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