TGS Live: An Israeli Historian's Lament for His Country

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Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn sits down with Israeli-American historian Omer Bartov to discuss his new book, Israel: What Went Wrong —a rigorous and deeply personal account of the contradictions at Israel's founding and how they've shaped the country's present. Bartov traces the legal, political, and religious tensions that have fueled belligerence in the occupied territories and eroded democratic norms at home, all while grappling with his own complicated relationship to his homeland. Glenn, neither Jewish nor an expert on Israeli politics, finds in Bartov a credible and emotionally honest guide through an extraordinarily complex situation. Whether you…