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As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel, by Omer Bartov: "...soldiers observing or perpetrating atrocities tend to ascribe them not to their own military, or to themselves, but to the enemy....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."