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....no historian of the Jewish national movement has ever really believed that the origins of the Jews are ethnically and biologically โpure.โ Sand applies marginal positions to the entire body of Jewish historiography and, in doing so, denies the existence of the central positions in Jewish historical scholarship.No โnationalistโ Jewish historian has ever tried to conceal the well-known fact that conversions to Judaism had a major impact on Jewish history in the ancient period and in the early Middle Ages. Although the myth of an exile from the Jewish homeland (Palestine) does exist in popular Israeli culture, it is negligible in serious Jewish historical discussions. Important groups in the Jewish national movement expressed reservations regarding this myth or denied it completely. - Israel Bartal, Avraham Harman Professor of Jewish History, member of Israel Academy of Sciences, and the former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Hebrew University. Since 2006 he is the chair of the Historical Society of Israel.[Link]
Comment: The vitriol and bloodlust displayed by a significant number of Israelis is in itself extremely revealing as to the psychological state of Israel's population. Regarding this report above, coupled with a number of others that highlight the soaring mental health issues among Israelis - those that aren't among the 100,000s that have fled to other countries - shows how, even though Israelis have yet to suffer any real hardship, its people are already psychologically disintegrating; one can only imagine what breakdowns and upheaval their society would experience were they subjected to the same sadism the IDF metes out to the Palestinians: