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Book "Israel: What Went Wrong?" By Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov (April 17, 1954, Ein HaHoresh, Israel); the author of book "Israel: What Went Wrong?" is an Israeli professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz grew up in a Zionist home of Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War.

Following his military service, he pursued his education at Tel Aviv University and Oxford University, eventually becoming a prominent historian and scholar of the Holocaust and genocide. He went on to become a leading scholar of the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention to his native country. Now as an Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust; he explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion.

In a new book called “Israel: What Went Wrong?,” Omer Bartov argues that Zionism has morphed into an ideology of extremism that led to genocide in Gaza following the Hamas attacks of October 7th. “There is growing criticism of American support for these kinds of Israeli policies, both on the American left and on the American right,” Bartov tells David Remnick. In "Israel: What Went Wrong?", Omer Bartov sketches the tragic transformation of Zionism, a movement that sought to emancipate European Jewry from oppression, into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism.

The state of Israel, which was marked as a "Phoenix" rising from the ashes of the Holocaust on 14th May 1948, had received an unprecedented degree of international sympathy and support ever since. This support was crafted and manufactured partly due to western guilt and partly due to the perception of the Jewish state as an island of democracy in a sea of authoritarianism. The Zionist movers and shakers, in the form of "wealthy bankers" under the care of "Rothschilds" artistically crafted myths to form an environment of "promised lands", "innocent" souls and empty barren desert of Palestine, waiting for the "God's Chosen" people to populate and turn it into heavens.

Finally the "Balfour's Declaration" was converted into reality and State of Israel was established. The country’s Declaration of Independence promised to uphold “the full social and political equality of all its citizens without distinction of race, creed or sex”. In the early years of statehood, Israel was made to be seen in the west as an icon of liberal, progressive and egalitarian society.

***The fact of the matter is that state of Israel has always been a forward outpost and watchdog of western imperialism and Zionist Jewish interests in the Middle East.***

The book "Israel: What Went Wrong?" By Omer Bartov traces the roots of the violent events currently unfolding in Israel and the occupied territories; Bartov also tracks his country's moral tribulations and considers the origins of Zionism, the intertwining of Israel’s independence with Palestinian displacement, the politics of the Holocaust, controversies over the term "genocide," and the uncertain future. The result is a searing and urgent critique that addresses today’s debates over Zionism and the future of Israel with rigor and depth.

Omer Bartov (very innocently) believes that Israel requires “shock therapy” because “it has not still come to identify the limits of its own power, because those limits are in Washington, D.C., and it’s there that those limits have to be set.” Omer Bartov in his book "Israel: What Went Wrong?" adds on “For Israel, that would be good, because I think Israel needs to be liberated from that kind of dependence on American power (the writer wants the world to believe that USA and Israel are two different entities or states). He therefore says "I think, for American society and for American Jewry, that’s a very bad thing because there is a rise of antisemitism from the Tucker Carlsons of the world, who are a rising force right now;” (the rising public awareness about Israel's genocidal state across the globe is disturbing Israel's think tanks).

In the book "Israel: What Went Wrong?", Israeli-American historian and Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov examines how a nation founded in the aftermath of catastrophe abandoned its emancipatory origins. He raises profound moral, historical, and existential questions about the country's trajectory. Few queries that Bartov raises are like; “How did Zionism, a movement initially intended to emancipate European Jewry from oppression, transform into an ideology of ethno-nationalism and violent domination of Palestinians?”

Omer Bartov asks "How is it possible that a state founded in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, an event that gave legitimacy to a national home for the Jews, stands credibly accused of perpetrating large-scale war crimes?" "How do we come to terms with the fact that Israel’s war of destruction is being conducted with the support, laced with denial and indifference, of so many of its Jewish citizens?" "Why did Israel’s founders fail to adopt a national constitution or define the state's borders at its inception, and how did this ideological vacuum pave the way for permanent military occupation and extremism?"

His astonishment continues about his "promised land" rulers from God's Chosen" People as he quizzes "How has the memory of the Shoah been instrumentalized by Israeli political culture to justify untethered violence against Palestinians and foreclose international criticism?" There has to be some limits to "Insane Use of Power"; therefore internal dynamics currently lack the momentum to force change, how can the international community—specifically the United States—help set the necessary limits of Israeli power to push the state toward a peaceful settlement with Palestinians?

The "litmus test" framing refers to how deeply polarizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is. The book has become a flashpoint in this discourse, serving as a social and moral litmus test. It challenges readers to honestly examine history without abandoning their own collective memory or identity, frequently sparking intense debate over whether the roots of this ideological crisis are recent developments or inherent to the Zionist project from its inception.

Book "Israel: What Went Wrong?" By Omer Bartov is an erudite account of the foundation of the state and its subsequent moral and political decline. Today, State of Israel is widely regarded as an immoral, violent, cruel and oppressive apartheid state. The Israeli response to the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 was a major milestone in the gradual slide to its status as an international pariah. Israel claimed the right to self-defence, but proceeded to act in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. The international court of justice in The Hague found that the right of Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide was at risk and ordered Israel to take measures to prevent them. Israel, as is its wont, ignored the ruling. A UN commission concluded that Israel was, in fact, guilty of genocide. The international criminal court issued a warrant for the arrest of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes. The Israeli state thus stands credibly accused of war crimes, of crimes against humanity, and even of the crime of crimes – genocide.

The book critically examines how the memory of the Holocaust is utilized in Israel, frequently used to justify violence and to equate valid criticisms of state policy with antisemitism. The fact of matter is that holocaust was enacted in Hitler's Era but the Zionist Jews terrorist activities started long ago, even earlier than "Balfour Declaration". Omer Bartov innocently highlights "what has happened to the country" in a sober and deliberate tone, analyzing how the country abandoned its early emancipatory impulses (which were only words in the book and narrated by paid think tank members under influence of "deep pockets". How any one having any grey matter will neglect or forget "Nakba"?

Moreover, the Nakba was not a one-off event; it is an ongoing process. This process reached its climax in Gaza in the aftermath of the Hamas attack of 7th October 2023. Israel’s original aim was to depopulate the whole of the Gaza Strip, with its 2.3 million inhabitants, by pushing them across the international border into northern Sinai. When this plan was resisted by Egypt, Israel resorted to the wholesale destruction of Gaza to make it uninhabitable. As Bartov notes, ethnic cleansing can escalate into genocide, and genocide in Gaza was accompanied by the intensified ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.

Omer Bartov suggests that Israel betrayed its founding ideals, particularly the liberal and humanist aspirations embodied by the generation of his parents, but was there ever such a liberal promise at the heart of the Zionist project? The contradiction was present from the outset. Zionism emerged in nineteenth-century Europe as a nationalist movement whose central aim required the creation of a Jewish state in a land already inhabited by Palestinians. The logic of separation, demographic engineering, and a fictionalised national claim made an apartheid polity less an aberration than a foreseeable outcome.

The fact of the matter may be said as that the Zionist Jewish Council needed (the European Jews) settlers' population to be able to occupy Palestinian lands and use military to enforce brutal genocidal cleansing (thus Nabka was planned long before Balfour Declaration), and then after depopulation of Palestinians, using state terror claiming to protect "holocaust"survivors- the innocent Israel's civilians.

For Jewish survivors of persecution and, ultimately, the Holocaust (which was actually masterminded by Zionist Jewish Council) Israel represented refuge, dignity, and national renewal (because, the hidden hands wanted sacrificial humans to further their agenda of controlling world resources). For Palestinians, the same process meant dispossession and exile. What was redemption for one people was, for another, a form of the very persecution from which the first had sought escape. The book actually refreshes the wound of Palestinians living anywhere away from their ancestral lands and reshapes the Palestine crisis in a new paradigm.

The state of Israel was established as a strategic geographical post right in the heart of Muslim Faith so as to control the spread of real Islam and fuel sectarian infighting. The 78 years of Israel's existence has proved the argument without fail. Moreover, the argument was forwarded to support human rights of "Chosen Race"; however, clock has now been removed showing the real face of Zionist Jewish State. PM Benjamin Netanyahu proclaims that he has changed Israel’s security doctrine to strictly follow the Babylonian Talmud: “Kill them first”; “We initiate, we attack, we surprise.” The world saw it happening in Gaza for last two and a half years.

Omer Bartov served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for four years during the 1970s. His military service specifically included "Yom Kippur War 1973". In 1976, he was severely injured in a military training accident due to a commander's negligence, an incident he has stated the IDF covered up. The IDF was never a "moral" and "ethical" force, and has always been rough and brutal in actions against unarmed civilian Palestinians. For good 70 years mass murder, genocide and state sponsored IDF's full onslaught has not awakened conscience among western political and intellectual class. Then, the event horizon "Tofan Al Aqsa" from Hamas of Gaza happened on 7th October 2023.

The event driving Omer Bartov’s book "Israel: What Went Wrong?" is the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and the ensuing Israeli military response in Gaza. Bartov, an Israeli-American Holocaust historian, was prompted to write the book to trace how a movement originally founded for Jewish emancipation transitioned into an extremist state ideology of ethno-nationalism. Specifically, he examines how the mass destruction and widespread indifference within Israeli society following the October 2023 events led to the state facing credible accusations of war crimes and genocide.

The emancipation and credible use of digital media (away from the control of deep pockets) showed the world the real face of genocidal IDF and insane no limit brutality and terror unleashed by the State of Israel. The world watched and observed the constant stream coming from Gaza, the visuals of "Invincible IDF" fighting unarmed civilians (old, sick, women and children) and even animals & olive trees. Omer Bartov may probably be trying to seek divine forgiveness, because he is no different than another Jew Dr. Yuval Noah Harari who says“To Dominate humanity on a massive scale, all you need is a coordinated cabal of elites feeding the world the same made-up stories — total fictions designed for “Control!".