Yair Golan (then IDF Deputy Chief of Staff; later a Labor/Democrats leader) — 2016 Holocaust Remembrance Day address (per Times of Israel): warning that trends in Israel echo pre-Holocaust Europe — "finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016" — and of the ease of becoming "callous, morally corrupt and hypocritical." [Second doc — distinct moral-character / democratic-warning axis.]

If there is something that frightens me in the memory of the Holocaust, it is identifying horrifying processes that occurred in Europe…70, 80 and 90 years ago and finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016.

There is nothing easier than hating the other. There is nothing easier than raising fears and sowing terror. There is nothing easier than becoming callous, morally corrupt and hypocritical.

[SECOND DOCUMENT for Yair Golan, covering a DISTINCT axis (Israel's moral character / democratic-backsliding warning) from his existing "unite the left, topple Netanyahu" political-strategy document. Source is English (The Times of Israel, 5 May 2016, reporting his Holocaust Remembrance Day address; ToI's English rendering of his Hebrew speech); tier-2; confirmed verbatim against the fetched page (the "…" is ToI's elision; the source's terminal commas before "he said" are rendered here as periods; the three consecutive "nothing easier" sentences, which ToI rendered in two quoted segments, are joined here as the spoken sequence). NOTE: a separate "absurd and twisted comparisons… deputy chief of staff" line on the same page is a critic's attack on Golan, not his words, and is excluded.] A distinct, landmark declared position of Yair Golan — then DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF of the IDF (later leader of Labor / The Democrats). In his official 2016 Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) address, Golan delivered one of the most controversial speeches by a serving Israeli general, calling for national moral introspection and warning that disturbing trends in contemporary Israeli society echo pre-Holocaust Europe: "If there is something that frightens me in the memory of the Holocaust, it is identifying horrifying processes that occurred in Europe…70, 80 and 90 years ago and finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016," and warning of the ease of moral collapse — "There is nothing easier than hating the other… than raising fears and sowing terror… than becoming callous, morally corrupt and hypocritical." Prime Minister Netanyahu and the right rebuked him; Golan stood by the speech. This complements his political-opposition document on a SEPARATE axis — Israel's MORAL CHARACTER, the warning against dehumanization, racism and democratic/ethical backsliding — casting him as a voice of liberal-Zionist moral conscience from within the security establishment. [Axes: Israel's-character / morality (warning of moral decay, racism and dehumanization; trends echoing pre-Holocaust Europe; national self-reckoning), democracy (alarm at illiberal / ethical backsliding), security-establishment-as-conscience (a serving general's moral critique of his own society), left-right (the liberal-Zionist moral critique of the nationalist right).]