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@StewartMills @DnReynolds @CanEmbIsrael @IDF @lyonsinisrael "You probably proudly served in the military to perpetuate this occupation."

Claude Lanzmann: "In "Tsahal" I also knew exactly what I wanted to tell: the creation an army, the construction of an army, the creation of courage. 1/

@StewartMills @DnReynolds @CanEmbIsrael @IDF @lyonsinisrael This army represents a victory of the Jewish people over themselves. There had never been a Jewish army before. My film tells how Jews took their fate into their own hands to avoid ever become victims again. 2/

@StewartMills @DnReynolds @CanEmbIsrael @IDF @lyonsinisrael I show how they overcame the victim role and overcame a mental predisposition.

In the Israeli army life is valued higher than anything else. And yet every soldier in the Tsahal is prepared to give his life. 3/

@StewartMills @DnReynolds @CanEmbIsrael @IDF @lyonsinisrael Unlike other armies of the world, the soldiers of the Tsahal do not die for the glory of their fatherland, they die for life alone. You should not forget that the genocide of the Jews in the Second World War was not just a murder of innocents. 4/

@StewartMills @DnReynolds @CanEmbIsrael @IDF @lyonsinisrael It was also a genocide of the defenceless. My film describes the path to overcome defencelessness. It describes how the Jewish people empowered themselves with weapons and it describes the psychological metamorphosis that the people had to undergo, 5/

@StewartMills @DnReynolds @CanEmbIsrael @IDF @lyonsinisrael in order to build an army like the Tsahal, in order to be able to defend themselves, to be able to kill.
For decades, young Israelis have been growing up with the insecurity of knowing that no-one can guarantee that "Israel will still exist in 2025". signandsight.com/features/1893.… 6/6

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