![]() ![]() Only when we organised into armed guerillas and hijacked planes was the world finally forced to reckon with our existence. Palestine already had an ancient, extensive society, and when European Zionists descended on their country, committing well-documented massacres and pogroms to expel them, Palestinians pleaded to the world for help – to no avail. People lapped it up by the millions and refused to accept that it was anything but absolute truth, with Biblical authority to boot.īut it was – as everyone now knows – a lie. ![]() It was the romantic happy ending Europe needed following the genocide of its own Jewish citizenry. It narrated a true event (a ship carrying Jewish refugees sailing to Palestine) as the seed of an elaborate myth – a land without a people for a people without a land – which functioned to obscure the indigenous stewards of the land. The result was Exodus, a bestseller turned blockbuster film. ![]() ![]() In the mid-1950s, powerful Hollywood executives financed the writing of a novel by Leon Uris to sell a pro-Israel agenda to Western popular imagination. Hollywood director Steven Spielberg recently bought the film rights to a novel about “Israel Palestine” before it was published, something that may take us to a cultural moment of unfortunate deja vu. ![]()
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