Ken Burch
Jul 8, 2022

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For whatever it's worth. I think the incident of Lapid's grandmother breaking the tiny Chanel #5 bottle so it wouldn't "stink" at his father's Bar Mitzvah is a reference to the rumors that "Coco" Chanel, who invented the fragrance, collaborated with the Nazis when France was under Nazi occupation- a bizarre thing for Lapid to bring up in a part of the world where nobody living bears any active responsibility for anything the Third Reich did, and where 90% of Palestinians and Arabs hadn't been born before World War II ended.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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