Back here "ticked off" means the same as "told off". Confusing...
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The basic thing to learn from the charming antics of the French authorities in Algeria is that torture as a technique of war isn't in the long run a reliable way of winning, but does have some pretty terrible longterm consequences. Which their German teachers had already demonstrated pretty effectively.

Except there are always going to be those who are just waiting in hope for the chance to start up the torture game once again.
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One way forward in Palestine/Israel is for both sides to recognise that they are both victims of the Holocaust, working itself out. As the lawyer here, Mahameed, clearly recognises.

In a real sense the people being killed today, and having their lives torn apart, on both sides, are the victims of Hitlerism. And the implication of that is that the people carrying out the activities that cause death and destruction are acting as agents in that.