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...page narrative account of life in kibbutz Hanita seems only to serve as the author's attempt to fuel sympathies against what he depicts as war-hungry, ruthless Palestinian terrorists "firing 82-mm, and 120-mm. mortars, in addition to the Soviet Katyusha rockets" against helpless and terrified kibbutzniks. Feldstein presents a one-sided portrayal of each party in this dilemma: the "bad guy Palestinian" is depicted simply as a massacring Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist while the "good guy Israeli" is seen only as a defenseless kibbutznik victim. There is only one enemy to be degraded in this complex...
...Feldstein is relentless in his over-simplification of the conflict in as much as he reveals only the kibbutznik as the sufferer. As Feldstein describes how the Palestinian onslaught is taking a psychological toll on innocent kibbutznik children and grownups, he unfortunately magnifies the one-sided image of the Palestinian as a violent PLO terrorist...
...Feldstein consumes an entire page in what his title indicates is a desperate attempt to rationalize the March Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. But in so doing, he considers it unnecessary to provide any political-historical context behind the aggressive Israeli move, and instead finds it a sufficient justification to engross the reader in emotional details of the physical and psychological traumas experienced by northern Israeli kibbutzniks who are under perpetual fear of Palestinian rockets launched from southern Lebanon...
...Israelis are portrayed as fearful, chain-smoking adults who act in defiance of Palestinian mortar attacks by "telling jokes and bawdy stories" and keeping their children preoccupied by their frenzied-like laughter, singing and dancing to Hebrew tunes. But the nearby explosions eventually cause their defenses to crumble, and Feldstein describes scenes of "dazed kibbutzniks" huddled stiffly in a bomb shelter...
...contending that the psychological tolls suffered by Israeli kibbutzniks are not a significant factor with which any substantive perspective on the issue of Palestinian-Israeli border confrontation should deal. My point is, rather, that Feldstein need not present such a marring image of the Palestinian--whom he cites as the cause of inflicting such psychological and physical suffering--to strengthen emotional sympathies toward the Israeli victims...