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Article: rewriting zionism A new crop of historians believes Israel is now secure enough to confront the disturbing, often ignored, facts of its past. "It's like the Americans finally writing about the slaughter of Indians and the enslavement of blacks," one critic explains.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 27, 1994
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Cafe Tamar on Sheinkin Street in Tel Aviv, with its chipped,
green Formica tables, chintzy chairs, and poor ventilation, lacks
panache and decent food. But the newspapers in every corner, the
political caricatures on the walls, and the reporters and novelists
who make the place their second home suggest that the cafe is more
than a little conscious of its echo of Paris, 1968. It is, some of
its patrons believe, the kind of watering hole where revolutions are
hatched.
Amid the smoke-hoarsened shouts of its owner, Sarah Stern, who
piloted British jeeps in World War II, a dozen young intellectuals
meet regularly and plot a coup directed at their own parents, the
generals and judges who, ...