Israel: What went wrong? by Omer Bartov Published by Penguin 243 pages ?999 This book was written before the United Nations (UN) Commission of Inquiry reports unequivocally described as genocidal Israel’s targeted destruction of the Palestinian people in Gaza. As the interrogative title of this book indicates, its author Omer Bartov, an Israeli-American scholar of the Holocaust and genocide, came to this conclusion long ago. Dr Bartov’s forcefully written treatise argues that Israel strayed far from its founding ideals from the get-go, establishing the extremist state that precipitated the October 7 Hamas attacks (which he condemns) and Tel Aviv’s...