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As well as being one of Israel's preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This superb collection of essays offers Oz's cogent views on Israel's offensive into Lebanon in 1982; fanaticism of all stripes; the PLO; Israeli terrorism; the new militarism and the growing intolerance toward the Arab population in Israel; Jewish attitudes toward the Holocaust, and its misappropriation by the right and left alike; Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah; the dream of Zionism and its failures; and much more.
- Sales Rank: #1537722 in Books
- Published on: 2012-10-16
- Released on: 2012-10-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .55" w x 5.31" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
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As well as being one of Israel’s preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This superb collection of essays offers Oz’s cogent views on Israel’s offensive into Lebanon in 1982; fanaticism of all stripes; the PLO; Israeli terrorism; the new militarism and the growing intolerance toward the Arab population in Israel; Jewish attitudes toward the Holocaust, and its misappropriation by the right and left alike; Claude Lanzmann’s film Shoah; the dream of Zionism and its failures; and much more.
Amos Oz was born in Jerusalem in 1939. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfic¬tion, including his acclaimed memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness, which was an international bestseller and a recipient of the National Jewish Book Award.
About the Author
AMOS OZ was born in Jerusalem in 1939. He is the author of fourteen novels and collections of short fiction, and numerous works of nonfiction. His acclaimed memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness was an international bestseller and recipient of the prestigious Goethe Prize, as well as the National Jewish Book Award. Scenes from Village Life, a New York Times Notable Book, was awarded the Prix Méditerranée Étranger in 2010. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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"The fallen soldiers of the Six-Day War...
By John P. Jones III
...belong to all of us, but those who died in Lebanon belong only to their mother's now." Oz's acerbic observation is on the first page of this collection of 32 essays, published in 1987, five years after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Menachem Begin's "war of choice." As in every other country on earth, "victory has a hundred fathers," and are the cause of many a celebration, whereas the hustle is to change the subject on the morasses and quagmires, leaving the mom's, to bury their child. Five years provides the "decent interval" for some early observation about the fiasco that the Lebanese invasion and occupation would prove to be, though it would take another 13 years for the Israeli leadership to decide to "declare victory" and pull out. Amos Oz was born in Jerusalem, British mandate of Palestine, in 1939, the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He remains, along with David Grossman, a writer who is the conscious of Israel. I've read (and reviewed) one of his novels, Fima, as well as another collection of political essays In the Land of Israel. This collection of essays continues his excellent, incisive critiques of Israeli society.
In terms of skewering the cant, hypocrisy and self-serving rationalizations justifying the invasion, it is simply impossible to beat the following: "He said that there was going to be a blitzkrieg in Lebanon and, as a result of the quick and easy victory, Lebanon would become West Bank Number 2. First they'd occupy half of Lebanon to prevent Katyusha attacks. Then they'd say there was no one to give it back to because there was no one to talk to. Then they'd say...What occupation? Why, all we did was liberate the biblical portion of the tribe of Asher. And then a squad of rabbis would be sent to renovate the ruins of an ancient synagogue in Nabatiyah or a Jewish cemetery in Sidon..." Oz goes on to depict the rationalization of the left, in refusing to occupy further than the Litani river, and the right who would go further, saying they was no Lebanese people anyway... and if there was, they could all go back to some other Arab country where they really came from.
I suspect that if Oz had a shekel for every time he had been called a "self-hating Jew" he'd be a rich man. But he is an "equal opportunity" skewer, and there is (justifiably, in my opinion) an acidic essay on Austria, and its pretense of being "the first victim" of Nazi Germany, along with Kurt Waldheim's pretenses that he was only engaged in some `artistic' translation work during the war...which certainly echoed the rationalizations of Leni Riefenstahl, the filmmaker of Leni Riefenstalh's Triumph of the Will. A great book that debunks the "first victim" myth is George Clare's Last Waltz in Vienna.
In "Amalek Week" he describes the damage done to the national character by the lashings promoted by highlighting Jewish "victimhood." As Oz says in a footnote: "The name Amalek represents a Canaanite tribe that attacked the Israelites in the wilderness (Exodus 17:8-16). The Lord instructed the Israelites to wipe Amalek from their memory. Amalek has come to signify an archetypal enemy of the Jews." And later, Oz says: "Virtually every one of our holidays reminds us of `what was done unto you by Amalek': Rome, Spain, Russia, Arabia, Greece, Germany, Babylonia, Egypt, England, and all the others." He is even more scathing of the "militarization" of Jewish "love life": "For several years, we have been able to hear, in colloquial Hebrew, that the love life of the Israeli male is conducted somewhat like this: He meets a bombshell, puts her into a state of preparedness, and the lifts her off on a missile. Unless, that is, he gets torpedoed along the way - When love uses language like this, it is a sign that the disease of violence has already filtered into the innermost tissues of our being."
Yes, a nation like any other, and Oz is a leading proponent of the ever so familiar: "We have met the enemy, and he is us." An insightful 5-star read, still, almost 25 years later. [Note: I read the version that came out in 1987; am very glad to see that Mariner Books is keeping this work in print. It is an important one.]
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
important
By Steven K. Meier
a beautifully written book which provides a feel feel for the history of this region. Mr. Oz is a master and I highly recommend
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