“Feared, loathed, and isolated.” An open letter to Peter Kosminsky
Mr. Kosminsky,
My initial skepticism over the objectivity of your multi-part drama to be aired on British TV which, as you say, strives to “come to an understanding of the most dangerous and intractable war of our age…the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East”, called The Promise, seems warranted now that I’ve read your introduction to the film printed in the Guardian on January 28th.
You claim that, among the lessons you’ve learned from researching modern Israel, is that 60 years after the Holocaust:
“Israel is isolated, loathed and feared in equal measure by its neighbours, finding little sympathy outside America for its uncompromising view of how to defend its borders and secure its future.”
You then ask:
“How did Israel squander the compassion [derived from the horrors of the Holocaust] of the world within a lifetime?”
To this question, I’ll briefly ask an admittedly rhetorical one:
How dare you.