In imitation of the victory over Hitler, Israel, like the Allied powers of World War II, conceives the conflict with the Palestinians as a fight between good and evil. Netanyahu's goal is total victory.

The project of the extreme right in power in Israel is incompatible with Palestinian citizenship with the same individual and collective rights that the international community has recognized for Jews around the world. Israel today has everything that the weak, defenseless and unprotected European Jewish communities did not have, writes David Rothkopf.