Rabbi Shaul Magid
How the State of Israel became deluged with delusional religious fanatics.
Rabbi Shaul Magid is the Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College.
Not included in his Wikipedia bio, while living in Israel, he also served in the IDF.
“I came to realize…when you're walking through a Palestinian village, fully armed, with a loaded gun, and you see the hatred in the eyes of the children towards you, you really start to understand it. You are dominating their lives. You're humiliating. You're harassing their father. You're arresting their brother. There's just a sense of hatred that is palpable, and not only palpable, but from my perspective, fully understandable. And if I would have been in their situation, I would have felt the same way… even with all of the rationalizations that we were taught, this is necessary for security, and so on and so forth. I mean, that may be true, but it doesn't mean that the domination is any more excusable and that the hatred is any more unreasonable.”