Pumpkinflowers
 First edition | |
| Author | Matti Friedman |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Algonquin |
Publication date | 2016 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| ISBN | 978-0-7710-3690-3 (Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart) |
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story, is a 2016 book by journalist Matti Friedman, published by Algonquin.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Terror selfie
Friedman describes a brief attack by the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah on the small Israeli army unit, Outpost Pumpkin, in the South Lebanon security zone on October 29, 1994. Friedman served at the outpost 3 years after the incident. The attack was brief; Hezbollah fighters killed one Israeli soldier and wounded 2 others before withdrawing. But the Hezbollah fighters shot a short, blurry video, which, with a soundtrack of gunfire and martial music, went viral. It appears to show Hezbollah jihadis capturing an Israeli military position and planting a flag to symbolize victory. Hezbollah claimed to have captured the outpost and “purified it of Zionists,” and the video caused a brief but anguished public discussion in Israel over the preparedness of the military. Friedman describes the video, now a familiar type, as having been "fresh and gripping" in 1994, and, arguably, the first of what would soon become an enormous wave of "terror selfies" aimed at projecting the illusion of Islamist military victory.[7]
But this book is about so much more than a single incident, traumatic as it was. See http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2016/07/remembering-israels-forgotten-war/ for a better insight into Friedman's work here.
References
- ^ Rosenblatt, Gary (1 June 2016). "Matti Friedman's powerful memoir of his IDF service in Lebanon in the late-'90s foreshadows the complexities of 21st-century warfare". The Jewish Week. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ Lennox, Matt (20 May 2016). "Matti Friedman's Pumpkinflowers is not for the faint of heart". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ "Pumpkinflowers (review)". Kirkus Reviews. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ^ "Pumpkinflowers (review)". Publishers Weekly. 21 March 2016.
- ^ Senior, Jennifer (24 April 2016). "Review: In 'Pumpkinflowers,' a New Style of Middle East Combat". New York Times. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
- ^ Rosen, Michael (20 July 2016). "Remembering Israel's Forgotten War". Mosaic Magazine. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ Friedman, Matti (5 January 2016). "The Age of the Terror Selfie". Tablet. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
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