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skull_bearer ([personal profile] skull_bearer) wrote2012-10-25 01:24 am
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Addendum to last post

Also, if someone deliberately put in the subtext of viewing the Holocaust as the means by which a Bad Old World (Diaspora Judaism) gave way to a Good New World (Israel), instead of it being an Unfortunate Implication of spectacular scale, then that person deserves to be repeatedly shot in the groin.

[identity profile] fjm.livejournal.com 2012-10-25 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
But it's basic message was "and we wouldn't have got Israel". I found it very hard to stomach.

[identity profile] skull-bearer.livejournal.com 2012-10-25 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure if it portrays the lack of Israel as a bad thing. And anyway, doesn't it end with a push to start the founding of Israel? I saw it as more of an exploration of the clash between diaspora Jewry and Israel without the Holocaust's fait accompli, but not really favouring one over the other. If anything I got a negative vibe towards the Israel crowd.