I swear, when I picked up the article, I knew that I will find the word "anguish" because I knew the book mentioned (and supremely and arrogantly justified) the massacre and national cleansing at Lydda: "This book’s central chapter is probably the one about how the Palestinian citizenry was driven from the Arab city of Lydda in 1948. Many were killed; some were tortured during interrogations. There was looting. Tens of thousands of Palestinians, long columns, were driven from their homes into the desert. In expulsions like this one lie his country’s original sin, the author argues, beyond the settlements of its later expansion.
“Lydda is our black box,” he declares. “In it lies the dark secret of Zionism.” Mr. Shavit is a powerful writer about denial. The miracle that is Israel, he says, is “based on denial. The nation I am born into has erased Palestine from the face of the earth.” " And then this: "Mr. Shavit spies the seeds of the anguish that is to come..." You are supposed to read this and think: those poor Israelis. They must have suffered from nightmares from all the massacres they have perpetrated. Wasn't a whole Israeli recent movie that won award based on nightmares "suffered" by an Israeli war criminal during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon?
“Lydda is our black box,” he declares. “In it lies the dark secret of Zionism.” Mr. Shavit is a powerful writer about denial. The miracle that is Israel, he says, is “based on denial. The nation I am born into has erased Palestine from the face of the earth.” " And then this: "Mr. Shavit spies the seeds of the anguish that is to come..." You are supposed to read this and think: those poor Israelis. They must have suffered from nightmares from all the massacres they have perpetrated. Wasn't a whole Israeli recent movie that won award based on nightmares "suffered" by an Israeli war criminal during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon?