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www.haaretz.com
Read this article few weeks back.
Reminded of it with discussion here of the Holocaust.
She looks at the arguments about Holocaust,
She says she's with Browning on this. That genocidal acts can be done by anyone given the right circumstances. And that means Israelis are not exempt. She is speaking to an Israeli readership.
I have not read Browning. But I've read other accounts of the Holocaust. As In Brownings work a lot of Jews were not killed in gas chambers but by shooting outside villages were a pit had been dug.
This was face to face killing. The industrialisation of the killing was much later. Even though that is largely how the Holocaust is remembered.
The point of Browning was that the killing of Jews in his book was not done by ardent Nazis but by a Police battalion. Made up of those not fit to fight at the front- "ordinary men"
For her the Browning thesis has an optimistic side. Whilst acts of genocide can occur these are due to specific conditions in a society. This can change. As Germany quickly changed after WW2.
Without the belief in possibility of change then the conflict in Israel/ Palestine can never end.