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C "The Fictional Jewish Nation", "The Wardrobe"

fictional jewish nation

Palestine and Israel clashed again, and when I saw photos, I could not help but sigh and sympathize with the suffering in the distance.

Thinking of watching "It Must Be Paradise" last year, "There will be Palestine, but not in your lifetime"

The biggest effect of this book for me is to disenchant the nation of Israel and the Jewish nation. The so-called "Jewish nation" is a pseudo-concept and a fiction. The Jews are not, as they generally think, drawn from the Old Testament. It has become a nation since the era mentioned here. All "nations" are a narrative given by later generations, serving current purposes. When the Zionist movement needed to mobilize Jews from all over to Palestine, they created this narrative, claiming it was a "return to the homeland." Zionism uses another logic of massacre and expulsion to ensure its own living space, becoming another perpetrator, the mirror image of the Nazis.

Religion, nation, and state are all tools of the ruling class or class of power to shape personal and public identities.

Wardrobe

I flipped through this little book in the half hour of the power outage, very short and....not enjoyable. I especially like the story of the second room number. The first-person narrative cleaners enter various rooms in the hotel to clean and observe the traces of their existence. This is the world of room numbers, similar to the writing structure of a confession room, with new stories coming in and out of the room.

H "Night of the Galactic Railway"

"Night of the Galactic Railroad"

It turns out that death can be so soft.

The world depicted by Kenji Miyazawa is really beautiful. The Milky Way glows with a faint phosphorescence. The egrets are formed by the condensation of white sand in the Milky Way. There are magical scholars, bird catchers and lighthouse guards.

As the people who met by chance disappeared one by one, Jeanne also woke up from the dream.

It turned out that the train was transporting the dead, and ジョバンニ's friend Kaami was also one of them - he drowned because he saved a friend who fell into the water.

When they ask again and again what happiness is, it is probably the process of repeatedly pursuing happiness.

"In order to reach the other side of happiness, we must fully experience the suffering and sorrow of life, which is also God's arrangement (みんな思しCalling しです).

Here's a chat

H: It means that the Jewish nation has always been a victim of suffering in our view, but in fact, they also invaded from a historical point of view?

C: No, they are invading Palestine.

H: Ah, is it the recent Gaza crisis?

C: Yes.

Back to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, do you think it is a conflict between two countries?

H: Mmmm

C: Actually, Palestine is not a country, but a region. About 1,000 years ago, the Jewish people were wandering around and wandering around the world. When the Germans massacred the Jewish people during World War II, they realized that building a stable country of their own is a It was a very important thing, so they decided to go back to Palestine, which is now populated by Arabs. What they are doing now is expelling the indigenous people of Palestine, their collective memory, that this land was originally ours.

This book questions the authenticity of the Jewish Diaspora in the first century AD, and there is a concept that anti-Semitism does not equal anti-Semitism.

H: In fact, it is to find a legitimate reason for their aggression, which is obviously a race that has suffered from it.

C: Hmm.

Share a song: "Gottinen", this is a Jewish singer who was invited to go to Göttingen, Germany to sing. She was originally averse to hate, but when she got there, and found that many people were greeting her and smiling, she wrote down this song.

But in fact, there is a reason for the fierce Palestinian resistance this time. There is an election coming up, and the previously declining faction also needs to be tough and strengthen the internal by establishing an external enemy, so ordinary people will always be hurt.

H: Well, why don't the earth be destroyed quickly. Where there are people, there will be conflicts.

C: Yeah, hate humans.

H: Fairy tales are also good!

C: Beautiful!

H: The description is really beautiful.

"At first, he felt that the shore was hazy and blurry, as if he couldn't see anything clearly; after staring at it for a while, he gradually found that the clear Milky Way water is more transparent than glass and more transparent than hydrogen. I don't know if it is an illusion, sometimes even You can see faint purple ripples in the water of the Milky Way, like the beautiful halo of a rainbow, flowing silently in the Milky Way."

C: I'm going to read the next book, which is a little more relaxed. Animals/humans are too tired these past two weeks.

H: The protagonists of the official illustrations are cats and mice.

I felt something was wrong when I saw the passengers who were supposed to be killed on the Titanic get on the train

Thought both protagonists died when I didn't know it.

C: Magical reality?

H: No, there should be a pair of siblings who used this background, because it was said that they hit an iceberg in the Pacific Ocean, and the lifeboats let the women and children board first, and they also boarded the lifeboats, but they seemed to have died.

C: He must have died. This spelling is still interesting.

Didn't I read the second wardrobe, or the author of Yunyou. She wrote about a cleaning staff entering different rooms, and then observing the traces of other people's existence, not writing about the hard work of cleaning, which is very wonderful!

H: So did she find anything?

C: Just all kinds of people, such as the Japanese couple who came to travel.

H: Well-intentioned observation, this Japanese couple is really Japanese.

C: Hahahaha yes! observe life

Recently, I often have a feeling that in addition to keeping reading, I also need a diary to record life. Life and human beings are bad, but observing life and human beings can make people jump out of the shackles of life, and it may be easier to see everything from the perspective of a bystander.