Shany Littman in Haaretz: ‘“We cried out in private and were not answered; we will therefore disgrace ourselves in public” – this sentence from the Babylonian Talmud, written as an explanation for the public fast to be eld after repeated prayers for rain have gone unanswered (…) echoed in my mind when I saw the faces of Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor during the rapturous applause they received at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday.’

And: ‘Their film [the new documentary "NAZA", a Hebrew acronym for nezek agavi, or collateral damage] probably does not reveal much that is new to the world, nor to Israelis who are truly interested in what is happening in Gaza. But this willingness to lay these accusations out in public (…) is an act from which it is probably impossible to emerge whole.’

So-called traitors remind perpetrators, profiteers, and bystanders of their guilt -hence the hatred.

(a sf 2234)