[lbo-talk] Leaving the Zionist Ghetto

[Russell Grinker]

Quite amazing stuff. Anyone on the list have any idea of how extensive this
sort of loss of confidence, demoralisation and navel-gazing is among the
Israeli elite?

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Last update - 23:50 07/06/2007
Leaving the Zionist ghetto
By Ari Shavit

Yosef Burg, the refugee from Dresden, accords the book a certain
softness that is not to be found in the angry words of his son. True,
toward the end the optimist Avrum tries to transform his eulogy into a
paean, but the attempt is not entirely convincing. The Israel of
"Defeating Hitler" is a very harsh place. Brutal and imperialist,
confrontational and insular. A shallow place, thuggish, lacking
spiritual inspiration.