"I think there is a big chunk of Israeli society that, for them, the kind of assault that is alleged against detainees actually sounds reasonable. It sounds reasonable to people in the Knesset today and for ministers in the government." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The Radicalization of Israel’s Military

How the response to alleged abuse of Palestinian detainees reveals a wider ideological war within the I.D.F.

This doesn't surprise me because after the Abu Ghraib torture stuff became well known people I know in the US military were defending it on the basis of a) anything done to those people is deserved and b) torture is a good way to get information (it is not).