Re: History Lesson

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He journeyed away from this one Jewish kid?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 8-07 12:20 AM
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If you knew the Jewish kid he was talking about, ben, you'd journey away too.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06- 8-07 12:21 AM
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Yeah, that fucker was pushy.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06- 8-07 12:42 AM
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But smart.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06- 8-07 12:45 AM
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And good with money!

(I ban myself, again.)


Posted by: zadfrack | Link to this comment | 06- 8-07 7:55 AM
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This caught my eye:

Steven Spielberg even planned to include [Yerushalayim Shel Zahav] in the grossly misleading postcard he tacked on to the end of Schindler's List, in which Holocaust survivors are shown in Jerusalem as if this was somehow a triumph over Nazism, although he dropped the idea after Israeli test audiences found the connection discordant.

In fact, Spielberg did use that song -- it was the first time I heard it, and I remember both the song and the scene vividly. I didn't know at the time that it was an ode to victory in the Six Days' War. Weird.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 06- 8-07 10:47 AM
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Thanks for posting this Ogged, that was a very good article indeed. Too bad he can't write like that for the magazine. . . .

6. Yeah, I got the sountrack as a kid, and it's on the soundtrack. I had assumed it was some old 1940s era Zionist anthem; realizing it's from 1967 makes it seem very different.


Posted by: Ile | Link to this comment | 06- 8-07 10:58 AM
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Great book on this topic: The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 by Gershom Gorenberg.


Posted by: Yeho | Link to this comment | 06- 8-07 11:00 AM
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