Word: harkavy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each speaker's line for a while, it didn't take me long to figure out that one of them, the more "liberal" of the two, was Amos Kenan, the Israeli writer who serves as the Zionist apologist to the liberal/left press. The other one I think was Yehoshofat Harkavi, a right-wing Middle East specialist from Tel Aviv University, although I confess I'm not completely positive...
...them what, so that if they're interested, they can go and check the guy out after the film. If this were a film about South Africa, it would make a big difference if one speaker was Helen Suzman and another Prime Minister Vorster. Political personalities like Kenan and Harkavi are not just ordinary Israelis. They both have very heavy political and ideological stakes in what happens in Israel. Why aren't we at least given a clue as to what interests they may be trying to promote...
...dined by the Israeli intellectual and academic elite (who were well aware of how important a good word from Sontag would do in stopping the drain of support for Israel on the American left), she seems to have classified Israelis into two groups, the hawks (here represented by Harkavi) and the doves (much more favorably represented by Kenan), a division which may make sense in an American context, but not in an Israeli one. By including both in her film, she could honestly say that, despite her disagreements with the hawks, she had allowed both tendencies in Israeli politics...
This done, she allowed herself to clothe the rest of the problem in a miasma of emotion, focusing on the very real sufferings of the Jews in Europe, accepting the premise of both Kenan and Harkavi that the struggle of the Palestinians against Zionism and the Arab states against Israel were essentially a continuation of the oppression of Jews in Europe...
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