Thanks. Neat.
Will ONION publish it? Are they still in business?
gingershot
August 19, 2013 9:43 am
Perfect and hilarious! – thanks!
Gamgee
August 19, 2013 9:54 am
Great.
Leonard Nimoy is Jewish and has lent his name and voice to Jewish projects. More relevant, he identifies with Peace Now and the two state solution.
One comment: did you intend your third frame to conflate settler ideology with Labor Zionism? “Making the desert bloom” was the slogan of the agricultural kibbutzim 50 years ago and more. Today’s religious settlers find red roofs and swimming pools far more beautiful than early Zionism’ orange groves (that have since been abandoned or uprooted to clear ground for construction).
The settlers also don’t need the older Zionist slogan (“a land without a people…”). They are more honest than that. They scoff at liberal guilt (that Leonard Nimoy might have) about taking away other people’s homes and olive trees.
MHughes976
August 19, 2013 10:37 am
Was that frame getting at the extraordinary contradiction between ‘land without a people’ and ‘people here who don’t want peace’?
Still, it does seem as if the pseudo-socialist slogans of the old days matter much less now than the Biblicist ‘God gave this land to us’ and the social-Darwinist ‘it’s ours because we’ve taken it’, though these too are rather inconsistent.
Stephen Shenfield
August 19, 2013 7:44 pm
Zionists prefer a basic narrative in which Palestinians are simply absent. This is reflected in their songs, from Hatikvah to Jerusalem the Golden and All These Things (Al Kol Eleh). By implication Palestinians do not exist. However, the sheer force of reality compels recognition at some level of consciousness that they do exist (even to repress them their existence must be acknowledged). Various auxiliary devices can then be used to incorporate them into the narrative — in a highly distorted manner, of course. But the basic narrative remains primary. The discussion of Ingsoc in Orwell’s 1984 helps to understand this sort of mind control (or “reality control”).
Thanks. Neat.
Will ONION publish it? Are they still in business?
Perfect and hilarious! – thanks!
Great.
Leonard Nimoy is Jewish and has lent his name and voice to Jewish projects. More relevant, he identifies with Peace Now and the two state solution.
One comment: did you intend your third frame to conflate settler ideology with Labor Zionism? “Making the desert bloom” was the slogan of the agricultural kibbutzim 50 years ago and more. Today’s religious settlers find red roofs and swimming pools far more beautiful than early Zionism’ orange groves (that have since been abandoned or uprooted to clear ground for construction).
The settlers also don’t need the older Zionist slogan (“a land without a people…”). They are more honest than that. They scoff at liberal guilt (that Leonard Nimoy might have) about taking away other people’s homes and olive trees.
Was that frame getting at the extraordinary contradiction between ‘land without a people’ and ‘people here who don’t want peace’?
Still, it does seem as if the pseudo-socialist slogans of the old days matter much less now than the Biblicist ‘God gave this land to us’ and the social-Darwinist ‘it’s ours because we’ve taken it’, though these too are rather inconsistent.
Zionists prefer a basic narrative in which Palestinians are simply absent. This is reflected in their songs, from Hatikvah to Jerusalem the Golden and All These Things (Al Kol Eleh). By implication Palestinians do not exist. However, the sheer force of reality compels recognition at some level of consciousness that they do exist (even to repress them their existence must be acknowledged). Various auxiliary devices can then be used to incorporate them into the narrative — in a highly distorted manner, of course. But the basic narrative remains primary. The discussion of Ingsoc in Orwell’s 1984 helps to understand this sort of mind control (or “reality control”).