Quotation from Hannah Arendt “The idiocy is right in front of everyone's eyes” — Oct. 22 1955
In a letter to her husband Heinrich Blücher, Hannah Arendt compares the treatment of Palestinians in Israel to the German mentality before the Second World War.
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"From a political standpoint, things are even more hopeless than I thought. (...) The only time I ever saw anything like it but not to this extent, was in Germany. The galut-and-ghetto mentality is in full bloom. And the idiocy is right in front of everyone's eyes: Here in Jerusalem I can barely go for a walk, because I might turn the wrong corner and find myself "abroad," i.e., in Arab territory. Essentially it's the same everywhere. On top of that, they treat the Arabs, those still here, in a way that in itself would be enough to rally the whole world against Israel.
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Within Four Walls, The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher ; 1936-1968, Harcourt, 2000, p. 282.
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