[defrost]

For my part I find the implication that the rhetoric of rabbis is homogenous and aligned to be most problematic.

There are those that appear to fully back Netanyahu and his longstanding views on treatment of the Palestinian state, there are others who are loudly against the actions of the Israeli state in recent years.

( I'd remark that there are more than two extremes but feel this is not the right thread to comment about rabbis on a spectrum )

[tptacek]

Yes, that's what snagged me here too. If the idea is just that IDF soldiers are brutalizing Palestinians while shouting religious slogans, maybe "religious language" is the better term to use. It's a common phenomenon on war and doesn't have any connotations of Jewish people being somehow exceptional about this.