great doc - neutral approach

i wasnt sure at first whether i really wanted to watch this, knowing that the documentary filmmaker had himself grown up in israel and as he himself said in the first few minutes of the film , had never really experienced anti-semitism himself, personally because he never left the country and was at all times surrounded by other israelites and jewish people.

it is a merit to the brilliant journalist who yoav shamir is which allowed him to stay neutral mostly throughout the film and continuously tried to question the people he meets and then question himself accordingly. the internal dialogue is a very important part of the film, without which the text could have been meaningless.

shamir offers a voice to a lot of varied sides concerning the issue of anti-semitism and anti-zionism in the world today. he talks to locals within the country, people in america and europe. he talks to politicians and people from the street. none of these people are without their flaws, their human afterall, but the documentary allows to form oneself a pretty good picture on the basis of its observations and interviews.

for me personally the core moment, comes surprisingly during an interview with a special agent sent along with some children who travel from israel to poland to visit some historic sites of the holocaust abroad and commemorate the incredible suffering the jewish people had to endure:

"i thought about it a lot, whether this march of the living is good or bad, (...) we perpetuate death, and thats why we will never become a normal people - we have to remember no doubt, but we live too much in it."

a great doc on dualism of indoctrination and patriotism, on the issues of identity and weight of human atrocities.