#the movie good and south africans who change their shirts 5.9.2023

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the movie good and south africans who change their shirts 5.9.2023

Yesterday I had a picnic and this morning I was sorry  that ,  because of reasons connected with the demonstrations. I  had not held it today. I am so glad I did not.

We went to see the  London production of Good by C.P Taylor not knowing what to expect and thinking if was another  movie about the fascist movement 

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As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences. David Tennant returns to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful political plays.

By the time it ended I was in tears.  I suddenly found myself crying .You really have to see it. It started off as any other movie about that period.  Hard to watch but not more than any other movies of that period. I don't want to spoil it for anyone. So maybe if you are intending to see it, don't read this. But the change started after what was for me, how can I say it, a connection to the Holocaust, to the slow development of an ordinary man to a monster. Which is what happened  here.

A man just before Kristallnacht, speaking to his Jewish friend, turning into a fascist animal.  A man in ordinary civilian  clothing  of a university professor, turning as he slowly undresses and then  puts on his Nazi uniform...suddenly he is the ARCHETYPE of every  Nazi we have seen with the glasses and uniform glaring at the Jews and blaming them for what is happening to them....just as today we blame the Palestinians. Kristallnacht and then the camps with the orchestra.... it all built up. The last part consisted of him going to one  of the  concentration camps and, as he arrived there, he heard the music of a band.  I was so glad that I had held the picnic the previous day as I knew I could not have faced sitting with friends in the forest and each time thinking of some part  of the movie. 

The reason was   I had a memory of years ago. While watching the documentary, I  was informed that my oldest nephew, Oscar,  was in the hospital.  My friend , Ziva, reminded me some years later that I had had a picnic that Saturday and suddenly she saw that I  had disappeared and she had found me ,somewhere in the area, sitting and crying. I told her Oscar was in hospital and that  I had a terrible feeling. That is what felt today. I just have a bad feeling. Things are going to get much worse before they get better.

And I cried for myself and my lost dream. .

I went to the demonstration in the night. But that night I kept on having a dream that I was walking in a dark tunnel with no light. Eventually I got up and really woke myself up  so as to stop the dream.  

Before the demonstration Saturday night  there was a meeting of the bereaved families, Israelis and Palestinian. Our Minister of education as he calls himself has refused to allow them to speak in the schools. Another way of shutting down voices. Just as one of the most important schools of Herzlia has refused to allow the members of the bereaved families of Israelis and Palestinians to meet in their school. I phoned the school and said I welcomed them as they were joining the fascists of the government. They are one of the most important schools of the area. Frightening that they are so easily frightened  into silence. 

Two people spoke. One, a woman whose father was killed 40 years after her uncle died in the 1948 war. Her father was murdered by over 40 strokes with an ax by two of his workers and the Palestinian who has also lost more than one member of his family. And yet these people arise and speak in the voice of peace. It makes me wonder about South Africans who are so proud to tell people that they left SA because of the apartheid and have settled in Israel and Australia and yet, suddenly, they have changed their tune.

A South African to whom a friend sent a letter I wrote earlier on last week replied in a very militant tone  This was the last line. 

All too frequently savage methods are the only language savages understand....

It reminds me of the South Africans here who like to forget that the Palestinians  also have rights and are oppressed. As I thought, he is probably very proud to tell people in a righteous tone that he left SA because of apartheid. His morality  when it concerned the Africans  changes when it comes to the Palestinians and he himself is no longer directly concerned.  I despise people like him. He reminds me of the SS officer in this letter  Had he been an Afrikaner he would probably have been a member of the Broederbond. One of the most violent setters here in the Hebron area was an Afrikaner who became a Jew and whose children today are as bad as  he is. 

Please also keep in mind that according to international law all settlements in the occupied areas are illegal. 

#the movie good and south africans who change their shirts 5.9.2023