Abused become abusers cycle

I was thinking about the peculiar parallels between what the Israelis have been getting up to, and what the Nazis were doing to them not so long ago, which led me to an interesting article by a rabbi in Wales. The Israeli desire for Lebensraum, coupled with a strange belief that Jewish lives are somehow more valuable than others, seems to have led them into repeating exactly the kind of atrocities that were perpetrated against them. It's impossible (unless, apparently, you're an Israeli) not to see frightening similarities between Gaza and the Warsaw ghetto, and phrases like the frequently used 'end-game', horribly reminiscent of the 'final solution', send a shiver down the spine. Gerald Kaufman made a good speech in the UK parliament with a similar theme; worth a look - the whole debate was quite interesting (it's unusual to hear politicians in the West get past the block of the Holocaust that Israel can usually rely on), though it highlights just how ineffective the UK is in this area.