" suspect multiple identities here."
Me too - I wonder if BB watched the 'Storyville' programme on television a couple of weeks ago based on recorded interviews carried out by two kibbutzniks, Amos Oz and Avraham Shapira, with Israeli soldiers who had taken part in the Six Day War - I doubt it - not his sort of thing.
The recordings were made within two weeks of the war and around a dozen of the soldiers were interviewed, had what they had said played back to them and were asked to comment.
The original interviews had participants describing the massacre of Arab prisoners and prisoners being being forced to bury those executed and then being executed themselves.
They described the triumphant army routinely destroying Arab settlements that had taken no part in the war - one soldier said it left him with a greater understanding of what it had felt like to experience The Holocaust and two others made the same comparison between the Six Day War and what had happened at the hands of the Nazis.
The triumphalism and persecution that went with the taking of Jerusalem was contrasted with the propaganda newsreel showing happy elderly Arabs smoking hookahs and peacefully sunning themselves.
One of the programme makers, Israeli writer, Amos Oz, stated at the end that the soldiers (which included himself) had told it the way it was, without exaggeration.
The programme is REVIEWED HERE
Jim Carroll