Jerusalem mayor's prize fight with Miller

[Classical_Liberal]

Jerusalem mayor's prize fight with Miller

Ultra-Orthodox leader insults Crucible dramatist at literary award ceremony

Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem
Sunday July 6, 2003
The Observer

It was supposed to be a fitting tribute to one of the world's greatest living dramatists by Israel's literary élite, but the award ceremony last week for the Jerusalem Literary Prize descended into an unseemly row between Arthur Miller and Jerusalem's newly elected ultra-Orthodox Jewish mayor.

Miller, himself Jewish, is perhaps best know for the play The Crucible, which pits a humane and liberal hero against religious fundamentalists in seventeenth-century New England.

The chairman of the prize committee, Avishay Braverman, said Miller, 86, was selected for 'his efforts on behalf of the common good, for standing alongside the small, grey individual and placing him in the centre of society'.

Miller, however, did not embrace the prize with open ar

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,992318,00.html

[Tinoire]

1. The intellectuals and liberals are the first to go

First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.


Martin Niemöller

[jos]

2. Good for Miller

I too hope that one day Israel will recover its moral principles.

[drdon326]

3. LOL

As opposed to murderous, fascist, corrupt tyranies,those are no problem ,huh?

[jos]

4. As a Jew

I hold Israel to a higher standard. If you're content to compare Israel to, say, the Sudan, and say, "see, nothing to worry about here," that's your problem.