Ecco un altro brano delle decine di testimonianze di soldati israeliani raccolte da Breaking the Silence
We were actually going through various exercises for our specific assignments. In this framework, regarding what we’re talking about – the army rabbinate – two things happened in our contact with them at the time. The first was the distribution of pamphlets, an indirect sort of contact. It’s the kind of pamphlet that is distributed in military synagogues, or pages of the weekly reading that is also distributed at military synagogues, containing rather explicit
political contents. Like writing, for example, that the Palestinians are like the Philistines of old, newcomers who do not belong in the land, aliens planted on our soil which should clearly return to us. There were also these acronyms of the name of the Jewish settlement Netzarim that should be rebuilt.
What were these pages, exactly?
There are flyers containing the weekly religious reading that are very similar to all kinds of military pamphlets you see in the synagogues, but they have the IDF stamp on them and that of the military rabbinate. In the military rabbinate there is a department called ‘Jewish Awareness for a Winning IDF’ which is in fact the department in charge of motivation issues and solving problems of morality and fighting and the like, for soldiers.