Ashrawi also evoked laughter when she offered personal insight into what she described as the Israeli effort to replace the historic existence of Palestinian Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land with their own recently fabricated existence. The displacement and replacement paradigm is taking place. They even steal the names. If you have seen settlements built next to Palestinian villages and towns. You notice the naming of the settlements is very close to the Arabic names. There is a competition over the history as though they were there before us, or even they were there along with us. Even the naming is a tool, Ashrawi explained. Even the theft of our cuisine. Thats something that drives me nuts. I am sure it drives you nuts, too. When you read about Israeli falafel. Israeli hummos. Israeli tabouleh. And recently, I was reading about the latest Israeli health food, Freekah. You confiscated our lands. Now you confiscate our culture including our cuisine, our food, historically. They are taking over the Palestinian reality to digest it and to turn it over into an Israeli reality. And to compete over legitimacy and historical discourse and historical narrative. They started with a myth, the land without a people for a people without a land, and they are continuing this myth by manufacturing all sorts of ideologies.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:56:37 +0000
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