By Arthur Neslen
Arthur Neslen’s sharp insights into the Israeli Jewish mentality are a needs to learn for someone wishing to appreciate that society past simplistic and reductionist descriptions.Ilan Pappe, writer of A historical past of contemporary Palestine: One Land, Peoples"This booklet is an interesting trip throughout the Israeli Jewish psyche in its a number of manifestations. It invitations us to appreciate the Israeli drawback via Israeli eyes."Ghada Karmi, Institute of Arab and Islamic experiences, collage of Exeter"Brutal and searingly sincere money owed. ... A compelling book."Yvonne Ridley, Political editor of the Islam ChannelIsrael's founders sought to create a state of latest Jews who might by no means back pass meekly to the demise camps. but Israel's power has turn into synonymous with an oppression of the Palestinians that provokes anger through the Muslim international and past. How are Israelis capable of see themselves as sufferers whereas victimising others? What does Israeli Jewish id suggest today?Arthur Neslen explores the dynamics, distortions and fabulous range of Israeli society. From the mouths of infantrymen, settlers, intercourse employees and the sufferers of suicide assaults, Occupied Minds is the tale of a countrywide psyche that has develop into scarred by way of psychological protection boundaries, emotional checkpoints and displaced outposts of self-righteousness and aggression. From vignettes to in-depth interviews, greater than fifty Israelis provide their money owed. What they display is in flip strong, haunting, refined and irritating. Illustrated all through with images, this distinct ebook bargains an unrivalled perception into Israeli cognizance, deepest and public. It charts the evolution of a communal self-image in accordance with cultural and spiritual values in the direction of one shaped round a unmarried militaristic significant: nationwide safety.
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In the brigade, everybody turned against me and that month I was transferred to Jerusalem. Within a year, there was an appeal. They shortened the sentence to one year and as he’d already been in the camp for 12 months, he went free. Twenty years later, I read in the paper that this young officer – who by now was a successful lawyer – had been made secretary of the Jewish Agency. His name was Shmuel Lahis. I wrote a letter to the chairman of the Jewish Agency, asking how he could appoint a murderer as head of the Jewish Agency.
So even though I passed the test, I joined the paratroopers and then the officer corps. All my life, it was obvious that there were no other options for me. ’ Most of my class said an electrician or something. ’ I mean people died to build Israel. Six million people died in the Holocaust just so I could be a Jew, right? It’s immoral not to be a warrior when you can be. There is no real discrimination against Mizrahim in the army. Anybody can be anything. I passed a test to be a pilot but I didn’t want to do that because I thought it’d be boring.
Today I don’t have any Israeli friends and I don’t miss them. How did you both meet? Dimitris: Through a phone-dating service which had a Russian language section. I picked the nicest voice that I heard and it was Olga’s. Olga: All my life, I never thought that I would need to use that kind of service. But I worked in Haifa University’s cleaning department and the night after the US attacked Iraq I found myself bored, so I called. On our first date, I felt that I had arrived home. I just knew that Dimitris had a big and open heart.