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A Soft Focus on War
Slavoj Zizek
In These Times
May 2, 2010
"Maoz said his film is not a condemnation of Israel's policies, but a personal account of what he went through. 'The mistake I made is to call the film Lebanon because the Lebanon War is no different in its essence from any other war and for me any attempt to be political would have flattened the film.' This is ideology at its purest: The re-focus on the perpetrator's traumatic experience enables us to obliterate the entire ethico-political background of the conflict: What was the Israeli army doing deep in Lebanon? Such a "humanization" thus serves to obfuscate the key point: the need for a ruthless analysis of what we are doing in our political-military activity and what is at stake. Our political-military struggles are not an opaque history that brutally disrupts our intimate personal live - they are something in which we fully participate." [read more...]
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