#omerbartov — Public Fediverse posts
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"Most vividly, I remember patrolling the shadeless, silent streets of the Egyptian town of ʿArīsh – which was then occupied by Israel – pierced by the gazes of the fearful, resentful population observing us from their shuttered windows. For the first time, I understood what it meant to occupy another people."
#OmerBartov, 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov
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"Thousands of children were killed? It’s the enemy’s fault. Our own children were killed? That is certainly the enemy’s fault. If Hamas carry out a massacre in a kibbutz, they are Nazis. If we drop 2,000-pound bombs on refugee shelters and kill hundreds of civilians, it’s Hamas’s fault for hiding close to these shelters. After what they did to us, we have no choice but to root them out. After what we did to them, we can only imagine what they would do to us if we don’t destroy them. We simply have no choice."
Omer Bartov: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov
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Omer Bartov wrote about the need of Jewish Israelis to believe in their national morality and to nourish #victimhood: 🧶
"This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov
#trauma #ethnicCleansing #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #Zionism #israel #Gaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #OmerBartov #IsraelGazaWar #GazaWar #warOnGaza #IDF #military #army #sociology #domination #history #reputation