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Books Eighty Years of Hurt A new book examines the corrosive roots of the Israel–Palestine conflict. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images) Israel: What Went Wrong? By Omer Bartov Farrar, Straus and Giroux 244 pages, $28.00 An Israeli defense minister received a stunning letter from a history professor at Tel Aviv University. The academic, a veteran of the Yom Kippur War in his early 30s, warned the country’s top civilian defense official that Israeli soldiers were at risk of being indoctrinated to abuse Palestinian civilians in ways similar to how German soldiers had been conditioned to brutalize “subhuman” Slavs…Open