[lit-ideas] Re: doubly disturbing headline of the day
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:08:29 -0800 (PST)
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From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Dec 1, 2004 2:35 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] doubly disturbing headline of the day
Yoram Kaniuk, author of a book about a Jewish violinist forced to play for
a concentration camp commander, wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that
the soldiers responsible should be put on trial "not for abusing Arabs but
for disgracing the Holocaust".
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It sounds to me like what the Soviet Russians did with WWII for decades, i.e.,
turn the memory of the war into something sacred. They did it in part to keep
the memory alive so it wouldn't happen again and in part because they were so
traumatized by the war. Now that there is no more Soviet Union, WWII will be
forgotten in a generation or two. I'm not convinced that keeping alive a
memory is necessarily a service. It means handing a great big suitcase to a
kid to lug around for the rest of their life.
I think it's self evident that the Israelis would be better served if they had
been able to connect with the Palestinian. It would have shown a
moral/ethical/emotional superiority. Instead it showed equality with the rest
of humanity. I guess not so self evident to the Israelis, since they took
their cue from the Nazis and thought it okay to harass the person.
Andy Amago
[in my best Lewis Black impersonation flicking my lips to make a
bdbdbdbdbdb sound] WHAT?
Paul
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Kingsville, ON, Canada
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