’Hirbet Hizah’: Between Remembrance and Forgetting
Anita Shapira
2000
Epilogue—For the Time Being
The debate in 1978 was not cathartic. It was just the opposite. Here we have something of a textbook example of the reciprocity between the present and collective memory: at the end of the 1970s, the internal antagonism between the two main political currents in Israel, left and right, deepened as the topic that divided…
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