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Bringing down the Nixon White House couldn't have been easy. But that's the way it looked to a group of a group of Syrian and Palestinian writers whom I've been training to be journalists here in Damascus, when I recently held a screening of All the President's Men - the Watergate movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. By secretive Syrian standards, the conditions under which the crusading journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein worked seem impossibly ideal. The fact that there was a direct phone number to the White House switchboard filled my students with...
...certain circumstances tend to create exceptions to this rule. Can a chronicle of a life embroiled in controversy be, in its frank treatment of family, personal, and international history, free of that controversy? This seems to be the goal of “Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life,” written by Sari Nusseibeh in collaboration with Anthony David. Yet though the story itself is not an argument, many of Nusseibeh’s views are embedded in its telling. He denounces policies of violence on both sides, recounting stories of unwarranted arrests, tortures, and evictions...
...camp against the occupation.” If there were no weapons in the town, and if there were no bomb makers in the town, and if there were no militants in the town, the IDF would likely leave it alone. It is always difficult in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to establish causality and blame, but offering shelter to criminals and those who murder civilians is an invitation for police intervention. Just as one who harbored a known murderer in any civilized country would be subject to search and imprisonment, such are some residents of Balata. Tahreer calls the terrorists...
Finally, Hadil, only 15, told the story of the Palestinian “exile” from Israel in 1948. She claimed that the Palestinians were simply sitting in their homes peacefully when the “Zionists came into the land” and “killed and destroyed” until the people “got scared and fled.” Her comments suggest that there was suddenly a mass forced exile and murder of Muslim civilians by the new state of Israel, but this claim is historically false...
Picture Balata perpetrated these falsehoods and propaganda to convince Americans that the Israelis are the “terrorists,” that the surgical strikes of the IDF are equivalent to the Palestinian suicide bombings, and that police actions which are necessary to maintain the stability of the region are worse than the indiscriminate murder of women and children. Tahreer photographs “martyrs…because they are our heroes.” Those who murder innocent Israelis only provoke violence. Those who harbor these murders deserve to be treated like the criminals they are. While...