In 2002, an Israeli military official said that in order to learn tactics for beating back the Palestinians living in the occupied territories, the IDF should study how the Nazis crushed the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. web.archive.org/web/2008042719… 
In 2008, Israeli deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai got on the radio and threatened a "shoah" against Palestinians.
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In 1988, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir stood atop an ancient castle in the West Bank and proclaimed that the Palestinians "are like grasshoppers compared to us." nytimes.com/1988/04/01/wor…
Israeli Army Chief of Staff Raphael Eitan: "When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_ea…
Prime Minister Menachem Begin, addressing the Knesset during the first Lebanon War, called the Palestinians "beasts walking on two legs." mondoweiss.net/2019/04/absolu…
In a similar vein, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood in front of a Gaza border fence and declared, "In our neighborhood, we need to protect ourselves from wild beasts." theguardian.com/world/2016/feb…
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