The Promised Land?
May 12, 2008
A decent documentary from the best television news channel out there — Al Jazeera International. However, it is mostly an Israeli perspective featuring Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim, Uri Avnery, Shulamit Aloni et al.
(thanks Shahbaz)
A special series examining the origins, violent creation, and modern-day reality of the state of Israel through the stories of individual Israelis.
Episode two, Conflict, looks at how the still small Jewish population succeeded in defeating a far larger Palestinian population and asks if a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing was employed.
[I'll post the second episode when it is made available]
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nothing yet on the situation in Lebanon? I’ve posted on it at my blog.
The entry in your Blog is excellent.
Alas , the Hizbullah actions of pointing guns at “fellow” militias is a neccessary move in that the next Israeli invasion is likely to be a 2 prong attack with the Northern Front being pro-US militias trying to disrupt movement and logistics to the southern front ( as well as giving an excellent excuse for the Israelis to claim that they are aiding a unification effort that would only be valid if pro-US militias are fighting “on the same side”).
The policy of Greater Syria is also not as facile as it firstly appears to be.The great national poet of the region Khalil Gibran is part of a semi-embarrassment for the elites in that all his great poems and alternative national anthemns glorified to the rising of a New Syria and at no point mentioned anything like a Lebanon statelet.
Lebanon is a “success” story of the Picot-Sykes Plan and the kind of “cohesion” it was supposed to generate and the creation of a Sham ( the old Arab name meaning “North” ) Regional State would actually restore the previously pre-colonial status of a Stateless land mass in which People can freely move rather like the common market in Europe.
part 2 available now…
Franklin Lambs articles published on peoples geography are worth reading on the current situation in Lebanon.