Thank you for this illuminating. Your explanation of how religious indoctrination has been used together with nationalism makes perfect sense in the light of a YouTube video I saw recently. This showed an Israeli soldier reading from what looked to be some sort of religious text with a whole lot of people in front of him, probably Palestinians, lying face down on the ground and handcuffed with a hands behind their backs. It looked truly grim. I wondered how just terrible it must have been for those people whether they can understand Hebrew I don't know, but to be subjected to a ranting soldier who could blow you to pieces any second must have been terrifying.
Hi Kathryn,
thank you for your thoughts and comments, really appreciated.
And I agree, it is hard to imagine what these people must have gone through.
Thank you for this illuminating. Your explanation of how religious indoctrination has been used together with nationalism makes perfect sense in the light of a YouTube video I saw recently. This showed an Israeli soldier reading from what looked to be some sort of religious text with a whole lot of people in front of him, probably Palestinians, lying face down on the ground and handcuffed with a hands behind their backs. It looked truly grim. I wondered how just terrible it must have been for those people whether they can understand Hebrew I don't know, but to be subjected to a ranting soldier who could blow you to pieces any second must have been terrifying.