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Saturday October 24, 2009 07:40 by Raymond Deane - Electronis Intifada
In 1967 the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish published his poem "A Soldier Dreaming of White Lilies," only to be accused of "collaboration with the Zionist enemy" for his sympathetic depiction of an Israeli soldier's remorse of conscience. Forty years later that soldier has identified himself as the historian Shlomo Sand. He has translated his remorse into a book that has become a bestseller in Israel and France, where the award of the Prix Aujourd'hui has made the author something of a TV star. Indeed, few recent books have aroused more interest and been more frequently reviewed in the US and Europe prior to the appearance of an English version. Translator Yael Lotan has chosen to follow the example of her French predecessors by telescoping the interrogative Hebrew title (When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?), which here becomes The Invention of the Jewish People, thus misleadingly and (deliberately?) provocatively implying that such inventiveness was unique to the Jews. However, Sand clarifies that worldwide in the 19th century "[t]he national project was ... a fully conscious one ... It was a simultaneous process of imagination, invention, and actual self-creation" (45). |
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Jump To Comment: 1The miss leading claim:
"Ultimately, Shlomo Sand is a little like Moses, unable to cross the Jordan into the Promised Land. The journey so far, however, is instructive, and very stylishly accomplished; one hopes that the 'soldier dreaming of white lilies' may eventually be emboldened to complete it."
Shlomo is an old acquainted, since the time he was member in the antiauthoritarian anticapitalist (and anti Zionist) organization Matzpen - the first Israeli organization to present a real comprehending rebuttal
and alternative to Zionism. He had already been "on the other side of that Jordan", before he left us to start his academic voyage.
In our analysis of the 1960s Matzpen predicted that only a social revolution of the whole middle east will enable a solution and end to the Zionist settler colonialist project in Palestine.
Lately, it seemed that a capitalist peace between the Israeli and the Palestinian capitalist elites (with international imperial pressure) may bring capitalist peace to the region and end to the 1967 Israeli occupation.
No one regard as a serious option the building of one state for Jews and Palestinians between the Jordan and the sea within the capitalist world order (though the call and the wish for it is much more advanced than any nationalist approach).