Who Killed My Homeland?

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/905000.html

A new play has opened in the Gaza Strip, and it is encouraging the people living there to question what the future of their Homeland (Watan) is destined to be....

It is an extremely positive turning-point in the way the palestinians look at themselves, as they try to come up with answers about what they want.

Sure, the linked article has elements in it which would seem to 'condemn Israel' (for the economic boycott, primarily) -- but in general I was impressed by the way the Italian writer of the story captured the "man-in-the-street" viewpoints.

 

[Oliver]

I'm not sure if I'm following your conclusion since these were
todays Headlines at BBC-News:

Israeli U-turn urged over Gaza

Missile attacks from Gaza present Israel with a major dilemma
Israel declares Gaza 'hostile'

 

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Ollie, did you even read the article by Lorenzo Cremonesi? It talks about the palestinians questioning whether their "jihad" is worth it. That is a positive change in their society, which we have not seen to date.

• "Enough of always blaming the Israelis for our problems. The time has come for a reckoning, and to condemn those among us who are bringing catastrophe down upon our people," says poet-director Saed Swerky, 37, the author of the play.

What does the BBC reporting about jihadists continuing their stupid rocket-launching game have to do with this play, or with the comments in the article offered by T.C. MITS* ?






* T.C. MITS = The Celebrated Man In The Street. (A term coined by my great-aunt, the brilliant relativist mathematician Lillian Lieber).

 

[Oliver]

Ollie, did you even read the article by Lorenzo Cremonesi? It talks about the palestinians questioning whether their "jihad" is worth it. That is a positive change in their society, which we have not seen to date.

• "Enough of always blaming the Israelis for our problems. The time has come for a reckoning, and to condemn those among us who are bringing catastrophe down upon our people," says poet-director Saed Swerky, 37, the author of the play.

What does the BBC reporting about jihadists continuing their stupid rocket-launching game have to do with this play, or with the comments in the article offered by T.C. MITS* ?

* T.C. MITS = The Common Man In The Street. (A term coined by my great-aunt, the brilliant relativist mathematician Lillian Lieber).

Well, my point was that I don't see the positive tendency while reviewing
todays evolvements within the Gaza strip. And I might add that Haaretz
might not be the perfect source for Palestinian opinions anyway - is it?

 

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The newspaper re-printed the journalistic work of a senior writer for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. This article first appeared in the Corriere della Sera weekly magazine.

I do not know if Corriere della Sera is a "perfect source" ... But that is the source.
Take it for what it is, OK? Haaretz is not the source.

The fact that you don't see the "positive tendency" in this palestinian performance art, would lead me to believe that you really have not read the article (this belief is re-inforced by your overlooking the last paragraph, which tells us that we have just been reading a journalistic work of a "senior writer for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. This article first appeared in the Corriere della Sera weekly magazine.")

 

[Mycroft]

Ollie, did you even read the article by Lorenzo Cremonesi? It talks about the palestinians questioning whether their "jihad" is worth it. That is a positive change in their society, which we have not seen to date.

Wow, this affirms what I've been saying for years, that the authors of Palestinian misery are the leaders of Palestinian society.

I strongly suspect that Palestinians questioning whether their jihad is worth it isn't new, what's new is being able to do it openly. I hope that continues.

"Who killed Watan?" cried the dozens of youngsters on the stage of the Shawah, the largest theater in Gaza, as they pointed accusing fingers at a group of older actors waving the flags of the Palestinian resistance movements: Fatah, Hamas, Iz a-Din al-Qassam, the Al-Quds Brigade and Islamic Jihad. Their flags symbolize many long years of struggles, hopes, distress and blood. But this time there was nothing formal or festive about them; there were no calls against "the Zionist enemy," none of the usual anti-Israel slogans.

The play, "Watan," was written to grasp the bull by the horns and send a new, revolutionary message. "Enough of always blaming the Israelis for our problems. The time has come for a reckoning, and to condemn those among us who are bringing catastrophe down upon our people," says poet-director Saed Swerky, 37, the author of the play that has set shock waves rippling among Gaza's 1.5 million-plus inhabitants.

Bravo to Saed Swerky!