A record of two short periods in Hebron, […] the white-painted sign scrawled on a wall which says — in English — “Arabs to the gas chambers”; […]

In a follow‐up story, Haaretz correspondent Dan Sagir interviewed a deputy company commander in the armored corps whose unit served in Jenin at the start of the intifada.

“The battalion knew we were a company of ‘killers,’” the officer — the son of Holocaust survivors — related. “We were for an aggressive solution. We tried to shoot using all means, we injected gas into schools from which stones were thrown at us. In the battalion we were known as the ‘Auschwitz company’ or the ‘Demjanjuks’ because we made such extensive use of gas.” (Sagir also mentioned another, far older example: the facility where paratroopers are taught to deal with the jolt of the straps when the parachute opens is called “Eichmann” by the soldiers.)