October 3
GUEST: Talal Jabari is a Palestinian journalist and documentary filmmaker who has made a career of covering his people's plight. Talal is the managing director of Radio Alam, an Arabic-language talk radio station. He directed Enemies of the South, co-produced the critically acclaimed film, Speed Sisters and is the cinematographer of Naela and the Uprising. He is currently producing the feature documentary One Night in Tantura.Naila and the Uprising: Official Trailer
Talal is unabashedly pro Palestinian. We had a good talk about how art can bring out stories that have been ignored by the popular culture. And if any story has been ignored in our mainstream media, it is the plight of the Palestinians.
Their history has been erased, like their towns and cities. The diaspora has been overlooked. The suffering of five million who remain in Palestine has been reduced to arguing about Israel's right to exist. Do apartheid states have a right to exist? Israel insists on being a Jewish state, in spite of the fact that 20% of its population is not. When Israel takes over the rest of the West Bank, than over half of its population will be Muslim. Will Israel still have a right to exist as a Jewish state?
These really aren't complicated questions. Only the Zionists say that the occupation is too complicated to draw conclusions from. And let's not even call it a "conflict." Was the Holocaust a conflict between the Third Reich and its Jewish population?
Only Americans are confused. Like the viewers of Fox News, we learn less and less about the truth each day. And the genocide directed against the Palestinians will only stop when a sizable number of US citizens demand that our country end it. If there is a holocaust of the Palestinians, it will belong primarily to America. Israel is merely our murderous and misdirected colony, content to be the hit man for the empire.
