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'Defenders' Square on the Bat Yam-Jaffa border (Photo by Bukoved/CC)

The language of death in Bat Yam’s Monument Square

The nationalist machine tries to ‘sell’ city residents a story about honoring ‘defenders.’ But the latter respond: they are not defending anything anymore. They died and all that was left is a monument. By Eyal Sagi Bizjawi The central square in Bat-Yam, my hometown, is known as “the matseva” (“the headstone” or “monument”). As a child…

By Haokets May 17, 2014