The Extinction of Experience

The Israelis always say that there is no partner for peace, and they prefer conflict to political solutions, and they see their future in a national state that denies the Palestinians the owners of the right and the land, relying on a fictitious reading of an artificial history, undemocratic internal policies, and a great willingness for violence, which constitutes dangerous future possibilities for what their ambitions could lead to, the indications of which become clear in the book “**The Jewish State and the Vow of the New Nakba: Chapters in the Update.” Israeli**" (Al-Ahlia Publishing and Distribution, 2025), by the writer and researcher in Israeli affairs, Antoine Shalhat. ## Themes of the Book The book includes a group of studies and articles that the author translated from Hebrew and discussed, and they reflect a bleak picture of Israel, which has been fighting one war after another since approximately the middle of the last century, and many consider it a primary participant in any destruction in the Middle East region. It also reveals the oppressive side that consecrates Israeli society as an incubator for settlement, disavowing the rights of the Palestinians, avoiding peace, imposing a racist national state, and preparing to repeat the Nakba. “The Jews of the West are slaves of their rights... they are double enslaved spiritually, morally and mentally.” This saying mentioned in the book, by the Jewish writer and thinker Asher Zvi Ginzburg (1856 - 1927), embodies the summary of an ancient and modern Zionist vision that includes the motives for establishing a Jewish national state, as it criticizes the inability of the Jews in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century to form a cohesive national bloc. Despite this founding statement, which perhaps constitutes one of the axes of the idea of a purely Jewish national state, the controversy revolves around the founder of political Zionism Theodore Herzl, whose book "The State of the Jews" raised questions about his goals and beliefs towards the state, and whether he meant a Jewish state or a state of the Jews, and this is what is being discussed by Israeli researchers, writers, and writers, who deal with a trend that saw the seeds of establishing a national state as an ongoing approach since Herzl, versus another trend that aims to give a liberal character to its founding ideas, to suggest that Israel is a country in which Jews represent a demographic majority. Nothing else.