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...Imperialism had nothing to do with the establishment of the state of Israel, and has nothing to do with the current support of Israel by the United States. It was established because the world was faced with the problem of a few hundred survivors of the Nazi holocaust who were unwelcome anywhere, and because a national community of 600,000 Jews already existed in Palestine. No imperialist state supported their settlement there, and they came through no imperialist motive: they came to escape Russian, Polish, and German persecution. They came to escape a massacre to which all great states, capitalist...
...Probably a touch of madness ran in his blood: two of his three children were suicides; so was his only grandchild. But he did have the inexplicable gift of prophecy. In the operetta that was old Europe, he looked through the gilt backdrop and saw the flames of the Holocaust. In life and in history, his fearful vision has been repeatedly vindicated by the behavior of others. If that remains the best that can be said of Herzl, what worse can be said Of the world? ∎ Stefan Kanfer
...best moment in the movie is Rubinstein's most private one. He visits Israel's memorial to the Nazi holocaust. More than one hundred members of his family had been killed by Hitler, and the camera moves in for a tight closeup of his reaction. Rubinstein, simply and without show, turns his back and, as the camera pursues him, walks away, keeping his face averted until he has composed himself. In this short scene, we get a sense not only of the passion but the deep dignity from which such a great talent is born and nurtured...
...Americans generally, and I sense a confusion on the part of American Jews about what it all means." Says Brandeis University President Marver Bernstein: "From a Jewish point of view, the danger is that the sentiment in favor of Israel is now counteracted by declining guilt over the Holocaust and an increased sympathy for the Palestinians. And we are under great pressures of both military and economic policy that we were not under before." Says Myron Kolatch, executive editor of the New Leader: "How do most Americans feel about the Catholic-Protestant civil war in Ireland? My guess would...
...Arab perspective. It ignores the general American support for Israel that is really the subsoil that enables the Jewish lobby to flourish. Non-Jewish Americans harbor profound sentiments toward Israel that have nothing to do with Jewish lobbying: a sense of something owed the Jewish people after the Nazi Holocaust; shared religious roots and democratic ideals; admiration for the pioneer spirit of the Israeli nation builders, so seemingly akin to America's own beginnings; empathy for the underdog diminished after the Israelis' victory in 1967. Besides there were the geopolitical, cold war realities of the 1950s, when Arab governments turned...