May 26th, 2008 by elie
Can a Memorial Day be happy? Isn’t the essence of the concept to reflect, to introspect, to national-spect? I find that with national-specting comes a bit of shame, a dash of pride and a whole lotta tears either way.
To some, Israeli and American Memorial Days might be categorized as fraternal twins, if related at all. [...]
December 18th, 2007 by elie
I finished Slaughterhouse-Five today on my way across Jerusalem. One of the most finger-pointing themes of the book - relevant to me these days - is expressed in the following lines, by character Howard W. Campbell Jr., as he describes American prisoners of war compared to others.
“[Americans] were known everywhere to be the most self-pitying, least [...]