Tom Segev
Tom Segev
Tom Segevis an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives...
conspiracy theories
The conspiracy theories have never had it better.
almost components contrary deep hearts holocaust identity israeli mean memory sky
Yes, Hitler is in Tel Aviv and the sky isn't falling. No, this doesn't mean that Israeli hearts are coarsened to the memory of the Holocaust; on the contrary ? the Holocaust is planted so deep in the components of Israeli identity that almost nothing can get to it.
mistake thinking uprising
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.
cannot fight help holocaust papers publish released suddenly
We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers.