Trouble is, Bibi keeps quoting the Amakelites as the biblican injunction for what to do with inconvenient other peoples in that region.
That is to say...
God ordered the Israelites to genocide Amalek, leaving no man, woman, child, or animal alive. The Israelites didn’t follow through completely enough, taking some women and children as slaves. So the theory is that the Babylonian Captivity was God’s punishment.
Every time Bibi or one of his even more horrific ministers and generals mentions Amalek in a speech, it’s a deliberate and explicit exhortation that genociding the Gazans is not just justifiable, not just praiseworthy, it’s actively a religious duty and God Himself will punish Israel and all Jews if they don’t.
The US Government gave a list of 16 specific demands regarding humanitarian aid that Israel’s government would need to meet within 30 days if they didn’t want our government to pause the delivery of more weapons. As this article details, they absolutely did not meet the majority of those demands:
Given who Trump wishes to put in charge for our foreign policy apparatus (in both State dept and DoD, even down ambassador to the Israelis and the UN), this could easily spin out into a regional war in which we have boots on the ground in defense of Israel, but also likely an out and out war against Iran (think along the lines of the Iraq war post 9/11). And anyone with two brain cells to rub together and even a modest understanding of the region (that isn’t shaped by a dumb interpretation of the bible) could have seen this coming… So pretty much all the wanna-be foreign policy bros who claimed that Trump was the peace candidate can fuck right the fuck off… They think endless war of the Bush/Obama/first Trump years was bad, it’s gonna get a million times worse now.
In October 2021, Netflix announced that it would be streaming dozens of films that depicted various kinds of aspects of the struggles and creativity of Palestinians.
The streaming platform had stated that the Palestinian Stories collection “is a tribute to the creativity and passion of the Arab film industry as Netflix continues to invest in stories from the Arab world.”
However, overnight, 24 films were wiped from the platform, leaving only a single movie – Lina Al Abed’s 2019 documentary “Ibrahim: A Fate to Define” – for users in the United States.
However, there are other sources:
Palestine Film Index, 600+ entries. Some are merely excerpts, and some must be rented, but many completely free features and shorts. Many books, articles, and interviews as well.
That’s a lot of Palestinian films there. I’m not an expert myself, but I found this list to be a pretty good guide to worthy films:
Everything I’ve seen from that list has been very worthwhile, Divine Intervention (also Suleiman’s earlier Chronicle of a Disappearance), Paradise Now, Salt of this Sea, When I Saw You, Omar, The Wanted 18, Gaza mon amour, and especially Ghost Hunting.
I just heard this story this morning about how the documentary No Other Land hasn’t been able to find a U.S. distributor yet. Hopefully it makes it to one of the major streaming platforms, at least.
