Through this hour and a half long video, the audience gets a unique opportunity to observe how self-appointed leaders of a very sectarian, self-obsessed subculture devote enormous resources to nurturing and perpetuating a disturbing and distorted world-view, for fun and profit, and in service of the monstrous state that genuinely does represent them. Throughout the film, we witness how members are encouraged to, as Gilad Atzmon has phrased it elsewhere, 'celebrate their symptoms':
- [Ariel] Sharon, like Max Nordau, realised that Zionism is all about reviving Jewish solitude, Zionism is all about the re-invention of a metaphysical shtetl. Zionism should be grasped as the re-reading of the Ghetto narrative in glamorous, positive terms. The Ghetto, says Nordau, “was for the Jew of the past not a prison, but a refuge. …In the Ghetto, the Jew had his own world; it was to him the sure refuge which had for him the spiritual and moral value of a parental home.”
Sharon couldn’t agree more. He has managed to envisage what ‘Jewish craving’ was all about. It is the yearning for the tribal parental condition of the Jewish home. He has managed to internalise Nordau’s message: Zionism is all about the abolition of the ‘other’, the re-creation of the condition in which Jews can celebrate their symptoms, where they can love themselves for who they are. Or at least for who they think they are. Link
The entire film can be watched here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... e24529.htm
or here:
http://pulsemedia.org/2010/01/26/yoav-s ... efamation/


