Sublime

None of us had trained on them. But many of the air marshals on board all El Al flights were Sayeret

Peaceful mass protests began. The best known was Motti Ashkenazi’s lone demonstration across from the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem, where he held a sign that read: “Grandma [the nickname given to Prime Minister Golda Meir], your defense minister is a failure and 3,000 of your grandchildren are dead.”28 Prior to the war, speaking that way

Rabin’s rise to the office of prime minister marked the beginning of a new era. He was the first prime minister born in the twentieth century and the first native-born. He was the first who had received his entire education in Israel and was the first to emerge from the ranks of the army. Israelis felt ready for a new sort of leader.

Adolf Eichmann had been a Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the architects of the Holocaust, a central figure at the Wannsee Conference that decided on the Final Solution, and, at the time of his capture, the highest-ranking Nazi official still alive. He had spent most of his time after the war living under a pseudonym in

Somit verweist der Zorn auf ein beunruhigendes moralisches Faktum, auf das man in Zusammenhang mit Terroristen stößt: Mögen einige von ihnen auch eine gerechte Sache verteidigen, so scheinen sie dies doch mit einer hölzernen Seele zu tun, die zur Gänze von einem Gefühl verzehrt wird, das an ihrer Menschlichkeit nagt.

difetti dei documentari senza troppe pretese. Ed è così che in Serbian Epics, prodotto dalla BBC e poi ricoperto di premi e trasmesso un po’ ovunque, si vede «the famous Russian writer Edward Limonov» parlare con il «Dr Radovan Karadžić, psychiatrist and poet, leader of the Bosnian Serbs». La scena si svolge sulle colline dalle quali le batterie se

Israelis saw the unraveling of the Arab states created by Westerners and wondered why the West would want to make another artificial state run by a corrupt, nonelected regime. They watched Mahmoud Abbas name public squares after suicide bombers and extol the murderers of innocent Israelis. Americans traumatized by the jihadist bombers who killed fo

He published the work under his recently adopted pseudonym, Shai Agnon.18 In 1966, he would win Israel’s first Nobel Prize.