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...forcible expulsion of the Palestinians from their lands and homes was not a "brutal twist of fate" as Amos Elon says; it was deliberate ruthlessness...
...ISRAELIS by Amos Elon. 359 pages. Holt, Rinehart and Winston...
...Amos Elon is a columnist for the distinguished Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz. He went to Israel when he was only two, but he was born in Vienna, educated in England as well as Israel, and as a foreign correspondent lived in Washington, Bonn and Warsaw. He is therefore a cosmopolite who believes that "it is extremely hard"-and extremely important-"for one man to understand the nationalism of another." As such, Elon is a tough assessor of his own visions...
...achievement is all the more notable because an arkful of poets and novelists-Amos Oz, Avraham B. Yehoshua, Yehuda Amichai, among others-have been there first with the agonies of self-examination. Despite them, The Israelis deserves Elon's own description: "The first critical analysis of Israel written from within." Together with The Seventh Day, an edited tape of young soldiers from a kibbutz discussing the Six-Day War, Elon's essay sardonically welcomes Israel into a new era-the era of public self-doubt...
That is the very heart of the problem. Israeli-born Journalist Amos Elon, in his just-published book, The Israelis: Founders and Sons, writes that repeated pogroms in Europe, climaxed by the Nazi holocaust, "imbued the Zionist settlers with the relentless drive of drowning men who force their way on to a life raft large enough to hold both them and those who were already on it." Yet the life raft did not prove quite roomy enough. "By a brutal twist of fate, unexpected, undesired, unconsidered by the early pioneers," adds Elon, the price of establishing a Jewish homeland...