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Chosen nation, wandering nation,
martyr nation, resurrected nation,
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Israel has known struggle
in all its forms.
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today it is discovering a new one -
the struggle that a young state, full of strength,
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must wage against itself,
to remain faithful, in victory,
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to what was its glory during oppression.
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The following images of daily life in Israel
engage in this inner struggle at every moment,
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a struggle less apparent than warfare,
but perhaps the only crucial one.
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DESCRIPTION OF A STRUGGLE
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Signs,
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This land speaks to you first...
in signs.
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Signs of land...
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Signs of water...
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Signs of man.
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Signs.
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This is the promised land,
this is Jerusalem on earth,
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This is... Israel.
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You have heard all about Israel.
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12 years of statehood,
nearly 13,
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2 million inhabitants,
soon 3 million.
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and as we all know,
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the wedding between
the West and East...
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even though for the moment
they have... separate rooms.
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Signs have but a short life.
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This tyre dump at Jaffa
no longer exists,
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And this man, standing mid the waves
at Tiberias, may be gone too.
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Lasting signs carved on tree bark
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and on the skin of Man.
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Market place signs.
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Money, a sign...
Colour, a sign...
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A world is born.
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Shouts and songs hailing
a dawn in strawberries, or of onions.
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"Innocent as a salad,
wise as an olive"
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Markets are the last reservoirs
of similes for innocence
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pending the psychoanalysis
of vegetables.
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Signs are not only for the eye.
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In the bustle of the Carmel street market,
the Rue Mouffetard of Tel-Aviv,
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they express an urge as old as the Jews
and as new as thirst
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To communicate.
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Communicate: to establish a relation
between things hostile or incomprehensible.
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The oscilloscopes of the Weizmann Institute
pursue a solitary reflection,
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which resemble, and are perhaps akin to -
those of contemplative creatures.
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These remote control owls
live in Jerusalem.
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This is the biblical Zoo where each animal lives
in the shadow of a verse
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which attests to its participation
in the Book of Books.
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that's to say...
the human condition,
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and to give it in this,
a right of inspection.
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For the nation in exile
the Bible was a sacred equivalent
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of the catalogue of Arms and Cycles
made in Saint-Etienne:
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Whatever was not included,
did not exist.
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Here the Antelope and the Cassowary
justify their existence.
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"I am brother to dragons
and companion of ostriches."
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I greet my cousin the flamingo,
my sister the owl,
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"whose flesh is not to be partaken."
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Deuteronomy 14:16.
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And he, in charge of the oscilloscope,
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is a pious man,
as shown by his skull-cap,
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which is to say that...
he abstains from owls
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and his God is the God
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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Here we are at Rehovot,
by the electronic brain
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where they come to consult,
like the Sibyl, each in turn,
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the scholars, the wise, the ministers...
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Those who sing.
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The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
is another privileged place,
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where the false symmetries in which
one wants to confine Israel fall away.
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The piety of the old
opposing the technicality of youth
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For many young, the cupola of the
planetarium and that of the synagogue
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are not two enemies -
but two halves.
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Contradiction, perhaps...
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But the silence of prayer
and that of research
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have at least one thing in common,
one which counts...
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And that is silence.
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The rest...
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whether it be pleasure
or piety,
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transistors or procession,
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the rest...
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is bedlam.
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A miraculous rabbi is buried
by the Sea of Galilee.
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Each year, the Sephardim
come to sing his praises,
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and ask him to grant their wishes.
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After them, signs of the night.
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Truck lights in the Negev,
gantry cranes in the copper mines,
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Lights that guide,
and others that guard.
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From the heights of Carmel,
Haifa, phosphorescent city,
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And at Be'er Sheva, surrounded by desert,
the last bar before the Red Sea.
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The Red Sea to the South,
The Dead Sea, East,
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To the West the Mediterranean,
A sea pink...
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or blue,
according to the time.
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A new day breaks on this narrow land.
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On the Western shore...
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on the mountains of the North,
at Manarah.
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The entire width of Israel here
is in the camera's eye.
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Daybreak on Haifa,
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Daybreak on Tel-Aviv,
city built on sand,
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On Jerusalem, in no man's land,
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where Jews lament over
the loss of the wailing wall,
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because the old city
belongs to the Arabs,
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On Be'er-Sheva,
where Zazie crosses the Negev,
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On Eilat finally,
the little port on the Red Sea
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with its future promise
of Suez and Miami.
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A group of kids
have spent the night on the beach.
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When this skyline is cluttered
by factories and motels
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shall we vainly long for such a morning
and its shrill voiced girls,
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the boy dragging his gun,
another praying on a swing?
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End of the line.
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The Arkia plane takes off for the North,
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laden with tourists,
prospectors, producers.
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At the other end of the runway, Haifa.
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On the slopes of Mount Carmel,
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by the Druze villages,
descendants of the Crusaders,
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Ali, descended from the infidels,
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returns his prayer desk on wheels
from a delivery.
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And so sports are born.
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Javelin was born of the hunt,
boxing from intolerance,
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the marathon of victory,
the sprint of defeat.
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And this primitive form of karting
is born in a steeply built town,
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where such poor boys
roll along in their little jobs,
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in dreams of Olympic glory.
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Many dreams have been seen
in this land of Galilee.
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Dreams of Messiahs...
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of Kings, of Wonders.
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Dreams of a land called
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Israel,
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where against common sense,
against history, a shepherd people
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were brought together,
according to an ancient promise.
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This land would come to be,
the dreamer
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would awake from
a two thousand year sleep of nightmares,
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and cities would rise
like the sun in the desert...
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all at once.
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And the country exists.
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Disguised as tailors and bankers,
the shepherds have returned,
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They have built the towns,
peopled the roads.
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But after centuries of confinement,
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their shepherd instincts overflow
and invade other fields
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For example, education.
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And here, boy-scouts.
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Many a young state is a scout in heart.
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It's a form of khaki measles.
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The oriental spirit has
a good opportunity to practice it,
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but for the lack
of another representative.
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The sun cracks the Spartan varnish
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and the uniform is shed.
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For the Israeli adult
the young are a wonder.
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The pleasure of parents is also
mixed with a certain bewilderment.
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The search for the missing link
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between the soft, small ghosts
of the ghettos
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and these young animals
whose bodies run free
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and whose piety casts no shadow.
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Yet ghetto children still exist.
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Cheek by jowl with their opposites.
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In Mea Sharim,
the orthodox quarter of Jerusalem,
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where brick walls,
kaftans and pigtails
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revive the ghetto,
save for the pogroms
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and only this, because
the Israelis restrain themselves.
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Here, time lies frozen.
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Jewish destiny is locked within these walls
that Israel had sworn to build.
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But here Israel is rejected.
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"Only the Messiah will deliver us,
not proud men."
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That is to say: should
one exchange a wondrous expectation
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in place of a fulfilment, where
one will know for all eternity
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the deserts it releases?
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But over these moribund house fronts,
and these fearful children
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hangs a certain yearning
for something called Spirit.
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And the question asked by Mea Sharim,
Israel is forced to hear:
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Will fifty years of freedom succeed
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where two thousand years
of persecution failed:
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in forgetting the Law?
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Today the walls of Jerusalem
revive biblical names,
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alongside other legendary ones.
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A language revived: Biblical Hebrew
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not spoken in Palestine
since the time of Jesus.
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It lends itself to
a secular form of pilpul.
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Pilpul is, in the synagogues,
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an endless dialogue with God.
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But when God isn't on call,
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a friendly neighbour fills the part.
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One hears Arabic spoken too,
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Sees the Bedouin garbs,
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The silent Pharaohs.
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One hears Yiddish, German,
French, Russian.
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And also hears that special language,
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grammatically extremely limited,
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which is touristese.
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Tourists love the picturesque
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but also offer a spectacle
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to picturesque-loving natives.
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But they have come to Israel
to meet the tough pioneers.
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They hardly recognize the others.
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Neither the cock-sure, delighted,
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full of health and enterprise,
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Nor the subdued,
disappointed, embittered,
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for whom life is hard.
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One who dreams of a fabulous America,
which he copies already,
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And this infinite variety
of the human face,
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that tourists sometimes photograph...
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but never see.
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Tourist take their photos,
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When by chance,
the photos return home,
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the reactions are varied.
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his could be gratitude,
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despondency...
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exuberance...
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or pride, even if mixed with envy.
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But the man proudest
of his pictures,
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in the whole of Israel
is Mr. Klein,
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"a Jew, friend of the cats"
as it says in Giraudoux's Judith.
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Mr. Klein gets off the
Jerusalem bus each day at noon.
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He says "cat" in Hungarian.
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And all the cats that know Hungarian,
dozens, run to him.
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Another face - Noah Rosenfeld,
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chess champion at 11 and,
like his opponent Yehuda Arel,
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members of the Manara Kibbutz.
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They live in a world
where money doesn't count,
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A fragile world,
one doomed to disappear.
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But which might leave behind,
in retrospect
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a memory as disconcerting
as those ephemeral communities
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which once existed
on the banks of the Dead Sea.
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The Dead Sea.
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A lunar landscape embedded
in the Earth like shrapnel.
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A place of Essene Communities
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and of Bar-Kochba's guerrillas,
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where one finds today
signs and message.
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The decor if we believe
a Russian scientist
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of the first atomic explosion,
3,000 years before Christ,
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A Judean Hiroshima
named Sodom.
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Dead sea... dead land.
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Palestine in pioneer days.
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Here dunes, here rocks,
elsewhere marshland,
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Everywhere... desert.
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To pass from desert to pasture,
from yellow to green
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and measure other than by
the exclamations of tourists
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what was achieved on this land,
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one need submit it to x-rays,
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like paintings of the Louvre where
an older canvas rises to the surface.
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And then, from above these crops,
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with the sweeping arcs
of the Piper-Cub,
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discover a lake.
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All this Northern region
was once a marshy lake, the Hule,
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with malaria and quagmires,
254
00:31:26,462 --> 00:31:28,765
and gunfire, as everywhere.
255
00:31:29,542 --> 00:31:31,114
Imagine the first settlers,
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00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,770
sadly surveying the work to be done,
257
00:31:35,211 --> 00:31:37,619
making a list of what needed to be done.
258
00:31:37,838 --> 00:31:40,189
Notions of agriculture, of tools
259
00:31:40,855 --> 00:31:45,058
weapons against Arabs,
remedies against malaria,
260
00:31:45,658 --> 00:31:48,407
and how to build on the swamp.
261
00:31:50,668 --> 00:31:54,947
And someone at that moment said
"All we need is a miracle",
262
00:31:55,173 --> 00:31:57,039
and everyone was at ease.
263
00:31:57,657 --> 00:32:02,100
Because if the Jews knew little of
agriculture, weapons and building
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00:32:02,348 --> 00:32:05,076
miracles, yes... they know.
265
00:32:38,142 --> 00:32:40,260
Now, the miracle is being organized.
266
00:32:40,472 --> 00:32:44,964
Sergei Darsky, on the ground,
and Etan Ayalon, in the air,
267
00:32:45,355 --> 00:32:47,941
work in a vast collective enterprise.
268
00:32:58,860 --> 00:33:03,056
The Piper flies, lands, takes off,
capers, then lands
269
00:33:03,544 --> 00:33:05,690
like a great mechanical pigeon.
270
00:33:22,594 --> 00:33:27,329
It happens, from time to time,
a Piper crashes into the mountain,
271
00:33:27,878 --> 00:33:31,956
and from time to time
a Sergei is shot at.
272
00:33:37,501 --> 00:33:41,688
If the work is amazing,
the stoppage is astounding.
273
00:33:42,886 --> 00:33:45,419
It's Shabbat,
the Israeli Saturday
274
00:33:45,544 --> 00:33:49,251
compared to which the English Sunday
resembles a carnival in Rio.
275
00:33:49,891 --> 00:33:51,472
Buses don't run.
276
00:33:51,831 --> 00:33:53,867
They gather for
the bus prayer.
277
00:33:54,921 --> 00:33:57,684
Cinemas stand closed,
machines don't run.
278
00:33:59,004 --> 00:34:02,884
In this mood of general strike,
atomic alert, of Spanish flu,
279
00:34:03,349 --> 00:34:04,921
History hoists its signals..
280
00:34:07,430 --> 00:34:09,949
because Israel is looking
for another way
281
00:34:10,075 --> 00:34:13,167
than that of the resignation
of the martyr.
282
00:34:14,169 --> 00:34:16,235
It's been found in Bar-Kochba,
283
00:34:16,936 --> 00:34:19,484
head of the resistance
against the Romans,
284
00:34:20,074 --> 00:34:23,358
whose traditional bonfires,
lit by his children
285
00:34:24,119 --> 00:34:28,131
have become funeral pyres
of all the enemies of the Jews,
286
00:34:28,465 --> 00:34:30,530
from Titus to Hitler.
287
00:35:04,774 --> 00:35:06,346
But for the pious,
288
00:35:06,557 --> 00:35:10,876
by the candlelight of Friday evening,
before the first evening star,
289
00:35:11,430 --> 00:35:15,181
and the great kerosene flames
of Saturday, after the first star,
290
00:35:15,793 --> 00:35:17,363
there's nothing but prayer.
291
00:36:01,698 --> 00:36:05,475
It's Saturday evening and
the General Assembly of the kibbutz.
292
00:36:06,616 --> 00:36:09,715
If the Kibbutz is the most
original expression of Israel,
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00:36:10,738 --> 00:36:13,332
the originality
of the kibbutz is above all
294
00:36:13,570 --> 00:36:15,780
in the functioning of that assembly,
295
00:36:15,858 --> 00:36:18,663
where all decisions are taken
by common consent.
296
00:36:19,572 --> 00:36:23,713
It's a limited,
but absolute form of democracy,
297
00:36:24,312 --> 00:36:27,730
Let there be silence.
298
00:36:28,132 --> 00:36:31,521
These man, these woman, own nothing..
299
00:36:31,939 --> 00:36:33,848
They have no money, no budget.
300
00:36:34,312 --> 00:36:37,148
no bank account, no salary.
301
00:36:37,813 --> 00:36:40,356
Everything comes from the community,
302
00:36:40,762 --> 00:36:43,437
children are raised collectively.
303
00:36:44,148 --> 00:36:47,017
But all these unique acts
in the life of the kibbutz
304
00:36:47,723 --> 00:36:52,611
are founded in this weekly,
familiar practice, of utopia.
305
00:36:53,225 --> 00:36:57,539
Good, does anyone
have anything to add?
306
00:37:03,711 --> 00:37:09,957
No more bright ideas? Let's vote!
307
00:37:10,410 --> 00:37:12,108
I'd like to say something.
308
00:37:12,467 --> 00:37:15,358
Let's have your idea.
309
00:37:19,478 --> 00:37:21,441
I'd like to speak.
310
00:37:22,021 --> 00:37:24,923
Very good, what have you got to say?
311
00:37:26,939 --> 00:37:28,743
Well..
312
00:37:29,265 --> 00:37:33,626
We should be represented at
the General Assembly of the Kibbutzim.
313
00:37:33,916 --> 00:37:36,388
To put forward our point of view.
314
00:37:36,811 --> 00:37:41,142
Even if it's only to say,
there's nothing more to say.
315
00:37:41,541 --> 00:37:44,279
You might as well be in Parliament
316
00:37:44,404 --> 00:37:47,539
Everyone knows in advance
how the votes will go.
317
00:37:48,402 --> 00:37:50,151
To its own particular problems
318
00:37:50,276 --> 00:37:53,892
add those of liaising
with the other kibbutzim,
319
00:37:54,224 --> 00:37:56,201
and those they share in common.
320
00:37:56,943 --> 00:38:00,087
Since life in the kibbutz has become
relatively more comfortable,
321
00:38:00,451 --> 00:38:03,489
recruiting has fallen off.
This only appears to be paradoxical.
322
00:38:03,890 --> 00:38:08,169
Recruiting for battle
is easier than for maneuvers.
323
00:38:09,189 --> 00:38:12,652
And if its normal that
experience evolves and forms change,
324
00:38:13,302 --> 00:38:16,545
many are worried
by the direction of these changes.
325
00:38:16,757 --> 00:38:18,982
Being heirs of a stern idealism,
326
00:38:19,199 --> 00:38:22,562
in the middle of a world
where evolution is somewhat different,
327
00:38:23,059 --> 00:38:24,730
isolated in their own country,
328
00:38:24,983 --> 00:38:27,672
isolated from the socialist states,
329
00:38:28,732 --> 00:38:30,811
how long will their purity last?
330
00:38:31,411 --> 00:38:32,961
I don't understand any more.
331
00:38:33,087 --> 00:38:37,543
Enough pilpul, comrades.
332
00:38:37,770 --> 00:38:43,180
Those who don't understand,
vote against.
333
00:38:43,645 --> 00:38:45,910
The others, for...
334
00:38:57,020 --> 00:39:01,480
16 for. Now, who is
for sending a delegate?
335
00:39:04,714 --> 00:39:07,288
For, for, FOR!
336
00:39:10,384 --> 00:39:13,505
Against, you've already voted...
337
00:39:22,389 --> 00:39:26,704
18 for.
We'll send a delegate.
338
00:39:27,141 --> 00:39:28,713
Proposed.
339
00:39:33,556 --> 00:39:38,053
It's looks like you've voted for
Uri Tennenbaum.
340
00:39:39,021 --> 00:39:40,888
At this point
the discussion seems close,
341
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,472
and Uri is chosen
to represent the kibbutz.
342
00:39:44,353 --> 00:39:46,670
But historical determinism
has its pitfalls.
343
00:39:46,832 --> 00:39:50,038
And in this case,
it's the woman knitting.
344
00:39:50,903 --> 00:39:53,328
I veto it.
- What?
345
00:39:53,582 --> 00:39:56,207
I veto it.
346
00:39:57,786 --> 00:40:00,907
And because Uri's wife has decided
that her husband shouldn't leave
347
00:40:01,149 --> 00:40:03,935
probably due to
a bad biblical precedent
348
00:40:04,167 --> 00:40:07,521
the election is annulled,
and the Assembly gives way.
349
00:40:14,056 --> 00:40:16,470
The kibbutzim are a minority in Israel,
350
00:40:16,768 --> 00:40:19,669
but a powerful and exemplary one.
351
00:40:20,184 --> 00:40:23,387
Soothing the conscience of
those Israelis less adventurous,
352
00:40:23,675 --> 00:40:27,904
who have brought to the Promised Land,
with neither imagination nor scruple,
353
00:40:28,110 --> 00:40:29,771
capitalist structure.
354
00:40:30,804 --> 00:40:35,395
At the other end of the scale
there's another minority...
355
00:40:36,222 --> 00:40:38,530
one however that is
a thorn in the flesh of Israel,
356
00:40:38,656 --> 00:40:41,244
and gives a bad conscience
to even the best...
357
00:40:41,579 --> 00:40:43,161
The Arab minority.
358
00:40:49,936 --> 00:40:54,038
In Nazareth, one man is, despite himself,
at the centre of the problem.
359
00:40:54,524 --> 00:40:56,930
Father Gauthier, a French priest,
360
00:40:57,140 --> 00:41:00,401
has come to Nazareth
to work on
361
00:41:00,569 --> 00:41:02,489
narrowing the gulf
and lowering
362
00:41:02,614 --> 00:41:06,106
some of the barricades
which separate the two communities.
363
00:41:06,265 --> 00:41:08,869
He has created
a construction cooperative,
364
00:41:09,186 --> 00:41:13,274
run by the Arabs,
aided by State and Trade Unions
365
00:41:13,494 --> 00:41:18,524
where improvements in living conditions
are in the hands of those who benefit.
366
00:41:18,916 --> 00:41:23,895
Because of the urgent need to improve
living conditions in Arab villages,
367
00:41:24,294 --> 00:41:30,285
it will only be of use if all traces
of colonial benevolence are absent.
368
00:41:31,347 --> 00:41:34,600
However, it is urgent.
369
00:41:44,663 --> 00:41:48,014
In a house, like many others,
in the souks of Nazareth
370
00:41:48,227 --> 00:41:50,067
Mouna is busy.
371
00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:22,099
Mouna is the eldest of seven children.
372
00:42:22,579 --> 00:42:25,358
Her brother is a baker's apprentice.
373
00:42:25,785 --> 00:42:28,283
Five more children surround her.
374
00:42:28,707 --> 00:42:32,888
The father is in an asylum.
He has become mad from misery...
375
00:42:33,186 --> 00:42:34,758
The mother is in hospital.
376
00:42:35,116 --> 00:42:36,968
Mouna is the head of the family.
377
00:42:38,154 --> 00:42:41,562
Three things enable her to go on:
378
00:42:41,999 --> 00:42:46,351
The co-operative, which has
promised her a new apartment,
379
00:42:46,598 --> 00:42:49,764
dancing, which she loves most,
380
00:42:50,478 --> 00:42:52,737
And the third, what to call it?
381
00:42:53,158 --> 00:42:56,052
that shy, durable light
382
00:42:56,418 --> 00:42:57,863
in her face.
383
00:43:18,998 --> 00:43:21,382
To smile in misery,
dance on a volcano
384
00:43:21,613 --> 00:43:24,847
man has a great gift for that.
385
00:43:25,136 --> 00:43:27,740
A border incident, last night.
386
00:43:28,109 --> 00:43:31,674
At noon in a friendly Bedouin's tent,
Captain Chaim
387
00:43:32,009 --> 00:43:35,384
referees a discussion
on horses' comparative merits,
388
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,888
Each one praises his own
389
00:43:38,111 --> 00:43:42,693
and looks with pity
on his neighbour's one-eyed mule.
390
00:43:43,001 --> 00:43:47,223
A scene from Shakespeare,
Henry V (act 3).
391
00:44:05,184 --> 00:44:08,118
Nine in the evening, Haifa,
392
00:44:08,335 --> 00:44:11,064
members of Carmel's Culture Centre
393
00:44:11,189 --> 00:44:14,859
meet in an Essentialist dance cellar.
394
00:44:15,050 --> 00:44:16,946
Casualties reported on the border.
395
00:44:17,355 --> 00:44:20,869
Many of these young men
were called to their units.
396
00:45:07,817 --> 00:45:09,780
The following noon...
397
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,092
- Gaby, who did you dance with?
- With the folk dance instructor.
398
00:45:15,592 --> 00:45:17,687
Isn't he handsome!
399
00:45:18,355 --> 00:45:22,306
Here are schoolgirls from
Kiryat Moskin, out of class.
400
00:45:25,379 --> 00:45:29,277
Comparing their instructors' merits,
in classic and folk dance,
401
00:45:29,545 --> 00:45:32,155
of ballroom dancing
and youth movements.
402
00:45:32,424 --> 00:45:34,092
Pretty birdlike chatter.
403
00:45:49,555 --> 00:45:53,492
Classic dance, ballroom dance,
dancing on a volcano.
404
00:45:53,664 --> 00:45:57,458
Conversations on horses,
cellars, dance, this is a dance.
405
00:45:57,672 --> 00:45:59,436
The volcano is war.
406
00:46:24,342 --> 00:46:26,094
War has left its mark.
407
00:46:27,327 --> 00:46:30,090
It is in this Middle East landscape,
this troubled climate,
408
00:46:30,215 --> 00:46:32,653
burdened with murders,
bombings and reprisals,
409
00:46:32,885 --> 00:46:35,193
surprise attacks, surprises of fate.
410
00:46:36,331 --> 00:46:40,352
It's in the memory,
all memories older than 12 years.
411
00:46:50,205 --> 00:46:52,798
Twelve years... Israel was born of war,
412
00:46:53,535 --> 00:46:55,984
war and a lack of foresight.
413
00:46:56,553 --> 00:47:00,099
Herzl didn't foresee his utopia
would be born in blood.
414
00:47:00,793 --> 00:47:04,496
England didn't foresee that this result
of her promise of a homeland
415
00:47:04,918 --> 00:47:06,658
would lead to a nation.
416
00:47:07,570 --> 00:47:09,142
The West didn't foresee
417
00:47:09,384 --> 00:47:13,177
that the Middle East would one day
cease to be a service station
418
00:47:13,545 --> 00:47:16,200
and that the original occupants
would have their say.
419
00:47:16,584 --> 00:47:18,525
It's true that no one foresaw
420
00:47:18,740 --> 00:47:20,881
that one day, the US and USSR
421
00:47:21,102 --> 00:47:25,062
would agree at the UN, and vote
for the birth of the state of Israel
422
00:47:25,295 --> 00:47:26,782
then wash their hands of it.
423
00:47:27,026 --> 00:47:30,842
But this, the Bible had predicted.
424
00:47:47,935 --> 00:47:49,510
Twelve years.
425
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,054
And already a generation
426
00:47:54,230 --> 00:47:56,381
who could misquote Oscar Wilde:
427
00:47:57,457 --> 00:47:59,282
Why did you come to Israel?
428
00:48:02,230 --> 00:48:03,791
To forget.
429
00:48:04,951 --> 00:48:06,524
To forget what?
430
00:48:08,296 --> 00:48:09,866
I forgot...
431
00:48:25,077 --> 00:48:27,499
Twelve years of peace, relative.
432
00:48:27,809 --> 00:48:30,945
And already on the face of this peace,
433
00:48:31,321 --> 00:48:32,893
the first wrinkles.
434
00:48:33,826 --> 00:48:36,864
Laxity appears, nostalgia,
435
00:48:37,159 --> 00:48:38,731
and the problems of youth.
436
00:48:39,162 --> 00:48:43,200
The right to an ordinary life,
paid for with Jewish blood,
437
00:48:43,383 --> 00:48:47,248
now beset by everyday drudgery,
maladies of happiness.
438
00:48:47,945 --> 00:48:49,895
The day of the locust.
439
00:48:51,256 --> 00:48:54,337
"The sleep of reason produces monsters,"
440
00:48:54,918 --> 00:48:56,489
generally imported.
441
00:49:10,407 --> 00:49:13,827
If there is still a David,
there are always Philistines.
442
00:49:23,348 --> 00:49:26,934
The trappings of happiness
take the place of happiness.
443
00:49:27,154 --> 00:49:29,959
radio, refrigerator, soon television.
444
00:49:32,630 --> 00:49:36,314
What is born where values die,
doesn't replace them.
445
00:49:37,077 --> 00:49:38,378
And the question resounds:
446
00:49:38,564 --> 00:49:43,306
Did we fight for the right to err,
scandal and boredom and sin?
447
00:49:43,484 --> 00:49:47,080
The destiny of the chosen ones...
To achieve the common fate of nations?
448
00:49:50,910 --> 00:49:52,827
This is answered by the question:
449
00:49:53,125 --> 00:49:55,740
What have we done to prevent this?
450
00:50:05,924 --> 00:50:08,625
A newsreel dated Dec 16th, 1947.
451
00:50:12,775 --> 00:50:14,847
Somewhere South of Rome,
452
00:50:15,318 --> 00:50:18,501
Jewish refugees from Central Europe
finally embark
453
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:22,042
on an illegal Haganah vessel,
under an Italian flag.
454
00:50:22,778 --> 00:50:27,350
At journey's end, the hope
of a landing, equally clandestine,
455
00:50:27,587 --> 00:50:30,669
on the only place on Earth
where they would cease to be
456
00:50:31,828 --> 00:50:34,027
in a remarkable understatement
457
00:50:34,222 --> 00:50:35,794
displaced persons.
458
00:50:42,328 --> 00:50:43,899
The crossing took two weeks.
459
00:50:44,660 --> 00:50:46,231
Christmas was spent on board.
460
00:50:47,191 --> 00:50:49,648
On Boxing Day there was an alert.
461
00:51:06,723 --> 00:51:09,694
Shortly after
a British man-of-war appeared.
462
00:51:25,940 --> 00:51:28,472
The ship discarded
its false Italian identity,
463
00:51:28,810 --> 00:51:31,777
and retook its true name:
Unafraid.
464
00:52:21,767 --> 00:52:25,057
The 30, refugees,
entered the port of Haifa.
465
00:52:26,038 --> 00:52:28,414
And were then re-embarked,
466
00:52:28,539 --> 00:52:29,841
for Cyprus.
467
00:52:31,407 --> 00:52:32,978
This we have done.
468
00:52:33,199 --> 00:52:36,379
We Europe, who boast
of our spiritual values,
469
00:52:36,517 --> 00:52:39,371
we have caused thousands
to risk all by fleeing us,
470
00:52:39,645 --> 00:52:41,217
just to flee us.
471
00:52:42,989 --> 00:52:45,664
Camp survivors, camp orphans,
472
00:52:46,175 --> 00:52:51,039
born in camps, crushed by camps,
they fled from us
473
00:52:51,195 --> 00:52:53,230
We, Germany, with our crimes,
474
00:52:53,606 --> 00:52:56,940
We France, with our indifference
475
00:52:57,539 --> 00:53:00,241
and when they turned to us, England
476
00:53:00,598 --> 00:53:04,901
all that we knew to do
was to put them back
477
00:53:05,397 --> 00:53:06,970
into camps.
478
00:53:54,116 --> 00:53:57,030
Away from fear, children are born.
479
00:53:58,261 --> 00:54:03,058
They come to you and say
"Tsalemoti" - photograph me.
480
00:54:03,619 --> 00:54:05,075
They are beautiful.
481
00:54:05,201 --> 00:54:07,866
Rumored to be all tall and fair.
482
00:54:08,232 --> 00:54:12,578
In fact Oriental grace sometimes
deflects European type,
483
00:54:12,798 --> 00:54:17,349
and among the Rubens,
there's many a Chagall.
484
00:54:17,956 --> 00:54:21,611
They multiply. You photograph
this drawing boy,
485
00:54:21,918 --> 00:54:25,392
but the next time you film,
there are already two...
486
00:54:25,701 --> 00:54:29,369
How many will there be next year?
Who will they be?
487
00:54:29,804 --> 00:54:34,555
Who will she be, this Jewish girl,
who will never be Anne Frank?
488
00:54:42,132 --> 00:54:44,209
We must watch her.
489
00:54:44,358 --> 00:54:46,502
Her very being, her freedom,
490
00:54:46,821 --> 00:54:50,288
The stakes of the first struggle.
Those were miraculous days.
491
00:54:50,602 --> 00:54:53,426
But miracles die with their witnesses.
492
00:54:53,672 --> 00:54:56,401
A second struggle begins.
493
00:54:57,984 --> 00:55:02,799
To become a nation implies
the right to the selfishness of nations.
494
00:55:03,151 --> 00:55:06,277
To the blindness and vanity of nations.
495
00:55:06,664 --> 00:55:08,489
But Israel's history cries out
496
00:55:08,614 --> 00:55:11,585
against strength
for the sake of strength,
497
00:55:11,825 --> 00:55:14,530
power for the sake of power.
498
00:55:15,011 --> 00:55:18,403
Strength and power,
are merely signs.
499
00:55:18,746 --> 00:55:22,894
And the greatest injustice
which weighs on Israel, is perhaps
500
00:55:23,324 --> 00:55:26,842
the denial of the right to be unjust.
501
00:55:28,561 --> 00:55:30,781
Look at her.
502
00:55:31,335 --> 00:55:34,584
There she is.
Like Israel.
503
00:55:35,417 --> 00:55:38,191
To understand her,
talk to her, perhaps...
504
00:55:38,602 --> 00:55:40,174
Remind her often
505
00:55:40,616 --> 00:55:45,372
that injustice on this land of Israel
weighs heavier than elsewhere,
506
00:55:45,611 --> 00:55:50,361
because this land itself
is the ransom of injustice.
507
00:55:50,746 --> 00:55:54,420
Also, think of the threats
weighing on her,
508
00:55:54,753 --> 00:55:57,998
to which she gives no cause.
509
00:56:01,837 --> 00:56:03,821
Yes, look at her.
510
00:56:04,041 --> 00:56:06,363
Until she becomes an enigma,
like words endlessly repeated
511
00:56:06,424 --> 00:56:08,688
which one no longer recognizes.
512
00:56:08,899 --> 00:56:12,252
Until, amongst all the inexplicable
things in this world,
513
00:56:13,412 --> 00:56:15,816
the most inexplicable is
514
00:56:16,106 --> 00:56:19,722
That she is there... in front of us,
515
00:56:20,335 --> 00:56:23,350
like a bird, or a cipher,
516
00:56:24,005 --> 00:56:25,922
like a sign.
517
00:56:36,097 --> 00:56:38,856
Subtitles: Corvusalbus, ValVerde, LaJetee
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