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29.12.04, 18:38
Na pocieche lajna pokroju manny_ramirez jest coraz mniej a takich jak ty i
ten pan w artykule coraz wiecej ,... Zio-nazizm to przezytek . Zeby ci bylo
razniej po metamorfozie podrzucam : "Zionism Has Exhausted Itself" , wywiad
z Amos Elon - Warte przeczytania ,...
uklony
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A Ty Twoje islamskie wypowiedzi trzymaj na islamskich forach a tu sam sie
zachowuj jak przyzwoity polskopiszcy czlowiek a nie jakis mulla ze islamobadu
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Under the Tuscan sun
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By Ari Shavit
Last Update: 23/12/2004 21:00
Once he was Israel's preeminent journalist, the chief chronicler of the
Israeli story. Now he is known throughout the world but has become nearly
anonymous here. After seven decades, Amos Elon is packing up his Jerusalem
apartment for a permanent mov
The young people at the news desk weren't quite sure who he was. The name
sounded familiar but they weren't sure from where. A few had heard about one
of his books. A few had once used another book as a textbook. But many people
don't really know who Amos Elon is. The man who was once the preeminent
journalist in Israel has been totally erased from the memory. The man who was
the chief chronicler of the Israeli story has ceased to register in the
Israeli consciousness. He is much better known to readers of the New York
Review of Books than to readers of Haaretz.
He was born in 1925, in Vienna, and immigrated to Mandatory Palestine with
his family in 1933. In the 1940s, he was one of Tel Aviv's prominent young
intellectuals - and was close to Uri Avnery and influenced by him. He wrote a
patriotic book about the War of Independence which he'd rather forget.
In the early 1950s, Amos Elon quickly became a star. For Haaretz, he wrote
several outstanding series of articles on subjects such as the rift among the
kibbutzim, the life of immigrants and the "second Israel" (the
underprivileged sectors of Israeli society). Elon became the protege of
Haaretz publisher and editor-in-chief Gershom Schocken, was sent to Europe
and later spent six years as Haaretz's Washington correspondent. In 1970, he
published his book, "The Israelis," which was an immediate international
success (it was published in English in 1971 as "The Israelis: Founders and
Sons"), and subsequently left the paper. In 1978, in wake of the peace
process with Egypt, he returned to Haaretz and remained with the paper until
1986.
In the small Italian village where he lives, Elon wrote his books about
Herzl, the Rothschild family and the history of German Jewry. The current
publication of the Hebrew version of "The Pity of it All: A Portrait of the
German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933" (which was published in English in 2002) is
coinciding with a significant biographical moment: Last month, Elon packed up
the apartment that he still kept in Jerusalem. Our conversation took place
among the piles of objects slated to be given away and the piles of books due
to be sent home, to Tuscany.
He looks much younger than his 79 years. He once wrote that Israeli faces
tend to wrinkle as if from a lot of gazing straight at the sun. His face,
however, is almost smooth.
If Elon has feelings, he keeps them hidden deep inside. At least outwardly,
he is serious, German, stern. A devotee of human rights but not overflowing
with brotherly love. Seemingly devoid of warmth and empathy, he is a man of
high standards. A man of high-level journalism and high culture. His
erudition is enviable.
A few of Elon's friends say something about him that he himself isn't ready
to admit: His decision to leave Israel essentially derives from deep despair.
From a sense that Israel doesn't have a chance. But it's also the man's
personality structure that has made him not want to belong. Not to
participate. To be an observer from a distance.
Maybe the young people at the news desk are right: Amos Elon doesn't interest
anyone here anymore. He's no longer relevant. But maybe they're wrong. And
not only because Elon is a supremely gifted journalist. Not only because the
international intelligentsia still perceives him as a thoughtful Israeli
voice. And not only because he is an inseparable part of the history of this
newspaper. But because Amos Elon epitomized an attitude that characterizes a
large part of the Israeli elite. In his words and his life, Amos Elon
expresses the deep aversion to the new Israel. The nationalistic, religious,
un-European Israel. This is apparently the reason why Amos Elon is leaving
us. He is turning back the clock, going back to being a European Jew.
Amos Elon, looking over the list of books you've written in the past decades -
"The Israelis," "Herzl," "The Rothschilds," "The Pity of It All" on German-
Jewish history - it's like the Zionist movie is being rewound; the whole
trajectory is from Israel backward.
Elon: "From Israel outward. And the reason is very simple. It's also related
to my leaving Haaretz. Nothing has changed here in the last 40 years. The
problems are exactly the same as they always were. The solutions were already
known back then. But no one paid attention to them. And I found myself
repeating them. I found myself saying the same thing all the time. And I
started to bore myself. The dialogue wasn't fruitful. It was a useless
dialogue. I was a lone voice in the wilderness."
Did you leave Haaretz and move to Tuscany to write historical books because
you were opposed to the occupation or because the whole Israeli experience
became unbearable to you?
"This place continues to be interesting and fascinating. It's in my blood to
this day. I get up in the morning in my home in Tuscany and listen to Israel
Radio and then I read Haaretz. But my feeling was that I couldn't say
anything here. Everything had already been said. And there's no true
dialogue. There's no suitable political development. But of course it's true
that it's impossible to live here without feeling some unease. And this
unease grows the worse the situation gets. And it has truly been getting
worse all these years."
Have you developed a feeling of alienation toward Israel?
"Not alienation. Disappointment. I have no common language with the people
who are at the top in politics. I think they're wrong. Their style repulses
me. And maybe there is alienation because I don't know them anymore. I'm not
involved with them. I used to know everyone. I used to be intimately
acquainted with them. And today it's a group that I don't know. And maybe
there is alienation because of the sharp rightward shift in Israel. Toward
the right and toward religion."
Do you find Israel to be barbaric, unenlightened, nationalistic?
"In Israel there's the `Gush Dan' state and the political state. The `Gush
Dan' state is a state of live-and-let-live. Of tolerance. Of the desire for
peace and a good life. But the political state, well, you know what it looks
like."
What does it look like?
"It's partly quasi-fascist and partly religious with narrow horizons."
Quasi-fascist?
"Quasi-fascist in the sense that abstract principles of religion are
dictating our fate without any democratic process. There are religious people
here who believe they've put their finger on the very essence of being. They
know everything. They're in direct contact with God."
You have some profound anti- religious sentiment.
"I'm not being original when I say that religion that enters politics is
dangerous. Such religious people would be better off behind bars and not in
politics. Certainly