"What the [Israeli] occupation [of Gaza and the West Bank] is doing to us as human beings ... [is] something that threatens to wreak irreparable damage to the fabric of our lives while turning us into a brutal and insensitive society. Such a society is not one in which I would want to belong to. And yet [American Jews] don't seem to particularly bothered by that ... [For example, the] Israeli media revealed that the director of the GSS [General Security Service] had ordered two Palestinian terrorists killed without trial and had lied to an official committee of inquiry ... In several of my talks in the United States, I expressed the opinion that, even if the episode damaged Israel's image abroad, it was crucial to bring it to light, because in a democratic society not even the security apparatus should be allowed to be above the law. Not a single American Jewish audience enjoyed hearing that. The almost universal reaction to what I said was: Yes, but why wash our dirty linen in public? ... When it comes to [Israel, American Jews] practically demand that I should say to hell with democratic principles. It's not so terrible if Israeli officials and government agencies take the law into their own hands. It's not good, but there are worse things. And one of these is a tarnished image. Indeed, I sometimes think that as long as Israel's image in America remains decent and humane, you wouldn't care if in actual fact we were a society of cannibals."
Matti Golan,
Israeli author,
With Friends Like You. What Israelis Really Think About American Jews, The Free Press, NY/Oxford, 1992, p. 44

Indeed, it's pretty shocking to think about how long Israel has been torturing the Palestinians.