CG, i collect names of Israeli jews that are strongly oppositional to where Israel has been and where it is going, these the jews SHOUTED DOWN by the Fanatic Ultra-Zionist--so when i charge this shouters as Judeo-Nazis, i am talking about a group that captured both the power in Israel and the U.S., and it is this FANATIC group that Obama is EMBRACING, and that is UNACCEPTABLE to me, as a human being.
This name i put forth now is well respected Israeli writer , who was just coming of age in 1948 Israel, his name ,A.B.Yehoshua.
This is from a review of his newest novel, i excerpt the this a passge from the review, the words speak for themselves.
First his photo to give flesh to the name
the title of the review is "No Heroes" the books title "Friendly Fire"
<<When Daniela arrives in Africa, she discovers that her brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu (Hebrew for Jeremiah), has sought to cut himself off entirely from his roots. A former Israeli diplomat (his post was terminated), he tells her he doesn’t know the name of the current prime minister and doesn’t wish to know. When she takes out a box of Hanukkah candles so they can light them together, he throws them in the furnace and says he has no interest in the Jewish calendar. “I’ve simply decided to take a rest here from all of that,” Yirmi tells his sister-in-law. “A rest from what?” she asks, stunned. “From the whole messy stew,” he replies. “Jewish and Israeli.”
As manager of an anthropological dig, Yirmi works closely with a Sudanese woman, an animist whose entire family was slaughtered in her country’s civil war and who, despite this, “grew up to be a woman of great tenderness and humanity.” Suffering, even holocaust, Yehoshua implies, aren’t the monopoly of the Jews, and they’re no excuse for cruelty.. Moreover, monotheism isn’t the only honorable explanation for the inexplicable mysteries of the universe.
But it turns out that Yirmi can no more cut himself off from Israel than can Daniela, who never changes her watch to local time and worries about her extended family, no matter what exotic landscape she inhabits. (Has her daughter-in-law remembered that Daniela is away and can’t pick up the grandchildren tomorrow?) For the death that haunts this story isn’t that of her sister, Yirmi’s wife, but of her nephew, his son, six years earlier as a soldier in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. He was accidently shot by fellow soldiers during an ambush, the victim of what is called in English “friendly fire.” In Hebrew — Eish Yedidutit — these words don’t carry the same meaning, and therefore have a jarring impact on both the ear and the heart. In his rage and desperation, Yirmi seizes on this phrase, translated from English, when he first hears it as “some small spark of light that would help me navigate through the great darkness that awaited me and better identify the true sickness that afflicts all of us.”
In search of that sickness, he travels twice to the West Bank Palestinian home where his son lost his life, and his encounters there are the most powerful scenes in the book. Yirmi wants to know exactly how and why his son was killed, and the Palestinians give him the answer he’s seeking. It’s a painful one, offered without sympathy. And while this adds to Yirmi’s misery, he can’t blame them for failing to feel sorry for the occupier and his dead occupier son.
Although Yehoshua is a long-standing critic of the occupation, he doesn’t lionize the Palestinians. There are no heroes here. The land relentlessly eats its own, and “friendly fire” is just one of its ways. After his son’s death, Yirmi pores over the harsh poetic writings of his namesake, the Old Testament prophet, who seems to argue that God is a cruel master promising only further cruelty for the sins of previous generations. There is no escape,............>> |
