Reading the article makes it clear that the police support ICE completely. Also that — like ICE —the police are completely lawless.

Southern Lebanon? Surely you mean northern Israel. Just a buffer zone.

It’s to prevent retaliation, I assume. Either picked up from police in Latin America fighting cartels… or Imperial Storm Troopers from Star Wars. Who could know?

World War 1 was so traumatic for Europe because the terrible weapons of mass destruction that they had been using to dominate the rest of the world were suddenly being used on them.

I think this is probably similar for people in the US who are not in a minority now, along the lines you describe.