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La conquête de soi à travers son expérience et celle de son père | Pierre Blumberg | TEDxAvignon


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it’s regular actually it all started
a morning of January 2018 I trimballe
in the halls of Avignon like all
young retirees idle I crossed
a species of interlope individuals who took me
apostrophic saying I thought about you
for tedx it’s up to someone who
think of me on this territory
it’s rather amazing yes we do a
tennis on the conquest of territories
I thought about you
about your father’s letters I had
so long the festival 2016 play him
give 10 and my father’s matches
under the title palestine 1946 letter of
my father the story is the following at the
end of the war 39 45
Georges Domergue and loses so to leave
France
after going through the war in
Inuit resistant is of Jewish origin there
decide to leave France with my mother
to settle in Palestine before
the state of israel born in 1948
and since Palestine
maintains a correspondence with his
best childhood friend he had
known in kindergarten in Paris who
was called the long and dalia we have
full like me I have known bed that
they came to the house it was a little
our uncle my father was only son
and so books alico a
almost daily correspondence
almost a journalistic column
on his attempt to install no
Jewish in Palestine 46 and as
my father died in 1987 I found
in his business the paper peels of
typewriters then the peel our
typewriters will not speak to
younger generations it was well before the
copy paste it was this kind of
little paper very hungry you put
behind the carbon to have a copy
what was written and how much
who was typed very very
dense
I had mounted this reading about
about in fact that interested me to
deliver yourself today it’s the
singularity of this story first
because this correspondence was
very rich
I think my father had a vision
quite lucid about the situation then and
that he was a man a little atypical
it was not a person who was going
in organizations he was very
free independent secular republican
hold to give you a little idea
a little summary of the gentleman
he used to eat bread
unleavened you know this very fine bread
it does not present any interest
it’s flour and water starts to
Jewish Passover or found in the
diet stores in my father was taking
this bread he scared spreads and he
add a slice of ham on it
and that’s the synthesis of george riner
the sodomized decided to try to
to settle down there
and I thought today tell me
like there is a particular course in
a historical context more than
singular then we will not debate
today
israel palestine palestine israel it’s
not the subject is not the subject the
absolutely immense complexity and at the same
time in my career
I had the opportunity to take care of
jeanne isolated foreign minors who
also come to a territory and I
told me why do you want to lyricist
finally in a way it’s
to say these two destinies these two
destinies how to finally go to
a territory trying to develop
his own inner territory so I
will give you some excerpts from
these letters
if I find very beautiful but I am
of total subjectivity and father writes to
his friend
in a letter dated March 2, 1946 he
wrote to his friend he co since haifa he
tell him this leon my dear locals in
waiting i’m expecting a kind
young man wearing a raincoat room
very dirty but with very clean clothes
and we look at a lucid voice
solicit the month a few minutes
interview the conversation takes place on
the bridge leaning on the rail and in front
the lights that come on in the
city ​​and port
it is calm and would do all this is
extraordinarily detached one does not me
ask no extraordinary question no
more but when the interview ends
I feel like I have been
photographed forever some
minutes later I’m returned my
passport and here I am allowed to reside
permanently in Palestine in
immigrant status
but it’s too late to mark them
tonight but will spend another night in
next morning morning ubaye time
start again on the 28th of February
last day of the month fevers have
marks on the lighters and there it is
I walk the soil of the promised land
May and I’ll stop after week
because was it going to be able
settle down this promised land on
this promised land he would have wanted
it is so much promised and finally
I’ll tell you right now
especially if you have other things to
to do Saturday afternoon in general we’re going
take a walk in the supermarket at noon
bassa’a trolley miserably messed up
it’s a bit of all dramaturgy this
history and this kind of business can
we get to all at any time do not
to be able to build oneself internally
in a territory that we would have liked
to approach that we have so idealized
so much fantasy is so desired
that eventually he becomes
inaccessible
I tell you I’m not a philosopher
rpt am not a geographer
I am not a historian
I would rather say that I am a smuggler
knowing how to use the term smuggler to
about isolated foreign strikes is only
not very suitable I conceive
perfectly well a transmitter
of words experience nor of like my
father who has certainly crashed
because he was not a friend in
conquering territory it was rather his
conquer him the words and then the
ideas he had a very strong point of view
lucid on the situation of palestine
from then he writes to his friend kills him that’s
the main question here is that
housing and work and are healthy
variant will be possible and more
seventy years after that makes us
still and courses and the Judaism you know
me the ico I have a program for the
Palestine
my program would include a civil code
for all without distinction of race
religions or communities at least
minimum civil code freedom
of immigration and you will see that he
will not come Jewish more instruction
in Arabic and Hebrew for all
without distinction
now I like there is something I
will ask you to hang on a bit
soft belt because the purpose is a
little more difficult it was his point of view
I do not engage in this point of view
necessarily but I’ll give it to you as it is
since it was his vision of the territory
dgt then he writes to his friend united a state
Jewish is impossible for lack of
mature the Jews of the same an Arab state
it will be a mess one face and as he
did not lack humor and that it was
a little the king of the pirouette he adds
the best government would be
maybe a Vatican delegation
operating in Latin and in France one in
got there
at this point where ultimately my father
was absolutely not stowed in his
inside I saw I often
talked to him he told me Annuity
do not worry
is the storm under a skull it
repeated it’s the storm under a skull
I think his attempt to install
did not work because his
interior lashing was not
strong enough he had good kit
is a territory in ruins France to
the end of the war to hope for some
thing in one place is a support to the
shot and I find this story pretty
singular in moments that we
goes through now in the moments of
fragmentation of society in
moments of withdrawal and then in
these moments it is true that constantly
who are these moments of waves
whether they are economic
climate policies
so I saw in my activity
professional
arrived in waves or small numbers
isolated young miners that we
welcome to an establishment and who
could be protected as aid
social to childhood up to their
minority
I saw them arrive linkers recognized
minor indeed in fact he is minor
or major it always me whatever
and I saw them arrive mainly
of sub-Saharan Africa
I saw them arrive minor put
so much mature adults by
their incredible journey I have seen
arrive
fearful and courage or stunned bewildered
volunteer I saw them arrive with
the crazy hope of staying here I
have seen them arrive with a will without
flaw to do something here all
tomorrow but very quickly and then
also with this incredible ideal I am
I said we must absolutely arrive
to do something because if at
their majority they do not have their
papers they will be that staying there is
the difference to my father who had the
possibility to return to paris
after his journey after his failure
I know we will not go back or
certainly never they will go back
never must integrate well
because lauren is inseparable from the
reality they will never come back because
of the country some invested between
quotation marks on their exodus and that they
waiting to be fed in every
meaning of the term waiting to be nurtured
by their presence here so I got
says it’s a position that has been received
as politically incorrect am
said if they become and if he stays here
anyway as much trying to arrange
with a clandestine that I
would qualify as drinking which we have
worked with teams and if a
provide the maximum our codes of
written language learning
as much as possible and then work with
all because of employers
associations and so on
for these codes to be integrated and
their hiding
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I was going to say tonight viable and that if a
day by chance the regularization
massive or partial arrive they
can benefit from it
in any case I was trying to
to cross these two destinies have these two
ultimately intended and see that
history is an eternal beginning
and for them
for these young unaccompanied minors to which I
think some by the way
particularly brilliant start again is
almost impossible and we have to
meditate us citizens and our policies
must also meditate it as such
so
at the moment of arriving a little at the end of
my words I think about my father
write to his friend and then him you know in
his last letter I find charming
and relevant
nash of the drum roll that
accompany the perilous exercises of
the balancing act sometimes there are moments
I already broke my mouth and then
you know I wonder what I am
come to do here and tell him down and write
these not blue letters is much less
maintenance of what I came to do
right here
first tell you a story
men
and then do the tedx thank you
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