Shai Dromi
SHOPPINGHOUR /ESSAYS WORDS BY
Shai Dromi Waltz with Memory -
“That night, for the first time in more than twenty years, I experienced a terrible flashback from the Lebanon War. Not just from Lebanon, but from western Beirut. Not just from western Beirut, but from the night of the massacre in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla.” 27
SHOPPINGHOUR N°05 — 09/09
The speaker, Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, stands on the shore of Tel Aviv, a shore which uncannily resembles the coastline of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. It is that foreign coast which he sees before his eyes, illuminated by the surrealistic yellow light of the flares which, in his mind, has come to represent the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees at Sabra and Shatilla, two refugee camps on the outskirts of the city. Ari was an infantry soldier then,