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kevin (feelnotes@alaskan.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 01:24:16 JST kevin

A former IDF soldier and historian of genocide describes his last trip to Israel https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov
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1. Meeting my friends in Israel this time, I frequently felt that they were afraid that I might disrupt their grief, and that living out of the country I could not grasp their pain, anxiety, bewilderment and helplessness. Any suggestion that living in the country had numbed them to the pain of others - the pain that, after all, was being inflicted in their name - only produced a wall of silence, a retreat into themselves, or a quick change of subject. The impression that I got was consistent: we have no room in our hearts, we have no room in our thoughts, we do not want to speak about or to be shown what our own soldiers, our children or grandchildren, our brothers and sisters, are doing right now in Gaza. We must focus on ourselves, on our trauma, fear and anger.
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  As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel
  
  from Omer Bartov
  
  The long read: This summer, one of my lectures was protested by far-right students. Their rhetoric brought to mind some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history – and overlapped with mainstream Israeli views to a shocking degree

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