Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tension, latent throughout the play, develops no further until the final act. It is difficult to balance tragedy and comedy, and the play often lapses into a no-man's land somewhere in between. Kanin might do well to cut a scene or two. A scene with a visiting Zionist lecturer, for example, fails miserably. It neither provides comic relief nor advances the story...
...worst example of this bias is Caploe's reference to Amos Kenan as "the Israeli writer who serves as the Zionist apologist to the Liberal/Left press." Kenan and his like--I am privileged to know a few--have a hard enough time in Israel without having their motives caricatured in this fashion...
...beyond that, the pickings were pretty dismal. The opening sequence, implicitly indicting the British for the whole problem, was too cute and facile. The time spent in Meah Shearim, the Jerusalem quarter of the ultra-orthodox, and in anti-Zionist Naturei Carta, was overlong and boring, chiefly because it had no point, despite the implied connection with a voice-over talking about the anti-godliness of early Zionism. And all the little shots of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem which so delighted me must have been a crashing bore for those in the audience who had never visited Israel. The photography...
...than it first appears. Israeli politics are highly ideologized, and after listening to 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...
...Ottoman Empire during World War I, and in 1921 was made Mufti (a jurist who interprets Moslem religious law), in effect leader, of Palestine's Arabs. He then turned against the British, beginning a long career of violent opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine. He instigated anti-Zionist riots, wiped out Arab opponents, and was driven into exile by the British. After years of cloak-and-daggery in various Arab lands, he served Adolf Hitler by broadcasting anti-Allied propaganda to the Moslem world from Berlin. He later lived regally in Cairo and Beirut, ever plotting against the Jewish...