Word: forgetfulness
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...that Folman chose to forget. After leaving the Israeli army at the end of his three-year hitch, he broke all contact with the men in his platoon. "I didn't call them, I ignored their reunions," he says, sipping Turkish coffee in his Tel Aviv studio. "I would've lived my life without dealing with [my war memories]." Then, in 2003, a chance encounter with a psychiatrist opened cracks in his willful amnesia. Soon after, the terrible secret of Folman's worst memory came rushing out: under orders, he and his men had guarded the outer ring...
...Sabra and Shatila. "I didn't want people to walk out thinking this was just another cool anti-war movie," says Folman. "I wanted to remind them that this horrible event really happened, and we Israelis were a part of it." After seeing his film, nobody is going to forget...
...Forget for now the way Inauguration Days have unfolded in the past. Jan. 20, 2009, could turn out to be a very different kind of swearing...
...story of Guantanamo doesn't end with closure of the facility. What would be next on your agenda if that happened? Making sure we don't warehouse most of the prisoners in some other facility in this country and forget about them. Give these men hearings and we all abide by the result or let them go home...
...change the way we operate. We have to acquire different capabilities. We have to ask ourselves: To what extent are we ready? Were our assumptions wrong? Did we bank too much on the peace process? There will be lots of postmortems. But I think that one should not forget that there have been a lot of achievements. Three to four years ago, the country was dividing into three parts. That was overcome. Most of the country now has peace. This is a country that is literally back from the dead. There is progress...