He journeyed away from this one Jewish kid?

If you knew the Jewish kid he was talking about, ben, you'd journey away too.

Yeah, that fucker was pushy.

But smart.

And good with money!

(I ban myself, again.)

This caught my eye:

Steven Spielberg even planned to include [Yerushalayim Shel Zahav] in the grossly misleading postcard he tacked on to the end of Schindler's List, in which Holocaust survivors are shown in Jerusalem as if this was somehow a triumph over Nazism, although he dropped the idea after Israeli test audiences found the connection discordant.

In fact, Spielberg did use that song -- it was the first time I heard it, and I remember both the song and the scene vividly. I didn't know at the time that it was an ode to victory in the Six Days' War. Weird.

Thanks for posting this Ogged, that was a very good article indeed. Too bad he can't write like that for the magazine. . . .

6. Yeah, I got the sountrack as a kid, and it's on the soundtrack. I had assumed it was some old 1940s era Zionist anthem; realizing it's from 1967 makes it seem very different.

Great book on this topic: The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 by Gershom Gorenberg.