Nehemiah Dagan's hateful words represent a long-standing phenomenon of a social elite that prefers civil war if it does not lead the country. Dagan wrote to Alon Ben David: "Go back to Germany 1933.
Good people. But there was one man - Hitler - and next to him deranged fanatics like Goebbels and Gering. And all these good people were frightened by the fanatics and mostly kept silent." The appalling parable is clear. The pathology of the man represents a phenomenon.