Posted on 01/26/2015 1:58:00 AM PST by Olog-hai
Leftist Israeli filmmakers are known for negatively portraying IDF soldiers, as recently exemplified by “5 Broken Cameras,” but a new documentary is seeking to push the envelope and go back in time to the 1967 Six Day War.
The film, “Censored Voices,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, reports the New York Times. It takes snippets from interviews conducted after the war with soldiers from Israel’s socialist kibbutz movement, using them in an apparent attempt to portray the IDF as immoral, even though the war has always been in the Israeli consensus as a justified and miraculous victory.
Even the Times recognizes the slant of the film, calling it “the latest in a series of movies by leftist Israeli filmmakers who have won awards abroad by presenting harsh looks at their own society.”
Director Mor Loushy (32), who created the movie, was quoted as saying that her motivation was to change the perception of the 1967 war as a victory—a perception that exists given the remarkable nature in which the nascent modern Jewish state, faced with near-certain destruction, recorded a stunning victory over numerous professional armies on all fronts in less than a week.
Her film has been criticized for removing that context from the war, even as it briefly presents the threats facing Israel. …
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Your “victory” included the unprovoked Israeli attack of the USS Liberty at the cost of 34 American sailor lives and 174 wounded sailors. As a Navy veteran I take offense to any promotion of Israel on an otherwise American Web site without recognition of the American lives taken and disrespect given of the American flag.
I met one who told me her work was subsidized by the government.
This site is pro-Israel. Go back to stormfront.
If 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973 were not all victories, there would be no Israel. I fail to see how the film-maker can state otherwise.
Leftists not create historical revision? They wouldn’t be good leftists then, would they. The memory hole always beckons to them, to say nothing of other apertures.
Human decency demands an accounting.
This shows how stupid leftists are around the world.
Here they are surrounded by people who will kill them and they still do everything they can to undermine the one democrat gov’t that is literally saving their lives.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Israel purposely attacked what it thought was a Soviet or Egyptian intel ship.
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