Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole scene is so bizarre as to be seen as almost unreal. Palestinian terrorists are actually trying to kill me, and yet I am unable to get angry or even upset about it. The rockets are exploding around me, and yet it is somehow still so impersonal that it is almost impossible to deal with. It's a cliche, but it's true: My life has become a pawn in some large and unfathomable chess game...
...deny that kibbutzniks are caught as powerless victims of occasional Palestinian bombardments. I feel, however, that The Crimson's choice of publishing this particular narrative as a "first-hand experience of a war situation" reflects an irresponsible policy in accepting opinionated articles, because the article distorts an understanding of the Israeli trauma...
...Israeli kibbutz life, but fails to incorporate any political-historical context (by perhaps a lead-in article summarizing the general situation) for interpreting the author's personalized, emotional reflections and his implicitly biased conceptions of the "enemy" with the proper perspective. Feldstein's narrow and distorted portrayal of the Palestinian is perhaps indicative of his general misunderstanding of the entire political situation, a situation that appears only to him as an "unfathomable chess game...
When Feldstein portrays the entire situation as a simply "bizarre" and almost "unreal" scene, in which children, mothers and fathers are forever in fear of their kibbutzes being the target of Palestinian bombing, one must adopt a more analytical and less emotionalist perspective, and ask why the Palestinians are firing. Indeed, when viewed within an historical-political scenario, the scene is certainly not of some bizarre nature where Israeli kibbutzniks just happened to be chosen as Palestinian targets...
...review of the "30-year diaspora" of the Palestinian refugees shows that substantially mounting pressures and injustices inflicted by neglectful parties in the Arab and international arenas, as well as the Begin government's expansionist actions in violation of settlement policies in occupied territories (prescribed by U.N. international law), have brought the Palestinians to resort to occasional bombardment of the northern Israeli region in order to draw long-overdue attention to their cause...