How do ordinary people deal with the horror? They suppress it blocking it out. Hatred and enemies disappear in a mist of forgetting.

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PALESTINE : ART, MUSIC & CULTURE:
 
FILM REVIEW: "WALTZ WITH BASHIR"
By Naira Antoun, The Electronic Intifada, 19 February 2009
 
To say that Palestinians are absent in Waltz with Bashir,
to say that it is a film that deals not with Palestinians
but with Israelis who served in Lebanon, only barely
begins to describe the violence that this film commits
against Palestinians. There is nothing interesting or new
in the depiction of Palestinians -- they have no names,
they don't speak, they are anonymous. But they are not
simply faceless victims. Instead, the victims in the story
that Waltz with Bashir tells are Israeli soldiers. Naira
Antoun reviews the film for The Electronic Intifada.
 
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10322.shtml

Being Ignored is an Insulting Experience

Ms Naira Antoun has reason to feel outrage. She lives in London, but her native country has been blockaded, bombed and invaded. Adding to this injury, Israel has erected a high wall to keep out Palestinians all of them. Including day laborers, visiting relatives, sick people and terrorists, the exiled list is long.

Every touring bum with a Passport rates a VISA. Every Jew can claim the right to return and pick up a new home in the bargain. Life is unfair.

Indifference is a Key to Sanity

I am not here to blame either side for the 61-year-old war. Its longevity speaks for itself. I remember the Vietnam Era, when the madness spread throughout the USA for ten years and beyond.

How do ordinary people deal with the horror? They suppress it blocking it out. Hatred and enemies disappear in a mist of forgetting.

Authors Bio:
Born a month before Pearl Harbor, I attended world events from an early age. My first words included Mussolini, Patton, Sahara and Patton. At age three I was a regular listener to Lowell Thomas.
My mom was an industrial nurse a member of the AFL/CIO. My dad was a painting contractor. We shopped at the Working Man's Store.
Dad's reading matter was the Old Mole the house organ of the Socialist Workers Party. I played the saxophone and became a young fan of Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Duke Ellington. Naturally, I gravitated to the Civil Rights movement.
After college to avoid the draft, I joined the US Army Reserve. Alas, this came to crowd control, which was a euphemism for busting radical potheads. When I ducked out of this duty, my commander bundled me off to a unit doomed to go to Vietnam. Ironically, my old unit went to Vietnam and the new one stayed home.
I studied economics in graduate school where I watched America go mad with war. Afterwards, I joined the rat race for a decade.
When Ronnie Reagan became President, I took up residence in Israel.
The 11 books listed below describe my adventures in Israel.
The articles reflect additional thoughts that expand on the author's ten volumes Genesis Begins the Millennia. The work begins in 1995 with a fictional account of ordinary Israelis absorbed with everyday events. There are extraordinary happenings the characters gradually recognize as portents of the Messianic Age. Volumes four and five show why the Messiah decided to delay His arrival.
Volumes six through ten [Tradebombers] begin six weeks before the 9/11 World Trade Center tragedy. Again, the characters portray ordinary citizen reaction to extraordinary events.