With lies only indefensible advocate ideas (the invasion of Iraq, for instance). Defensible ideas are argued and fought for them.
Leo in the supplement of El Pais Babelia criticism of the book Jerusalem. Biography. Signature criticism Carlos García Gual, professor at many universities and well-informed.
While still debated whether the recognition of a state in that territory would be impossible for Palestine today would actually be an improvement, we have found that, equally, not happen. And as I read the analysis of bloggers and journalists1, comes to mind the work of Palestinian artists Larissa Sansour whose images always end up being painfully successful. Ironic, funny and terrible. Today I leave the video titled Exodus Space, where a Sansour become an astronaut reaches the moon. “A small jump for a Palestinian, one giant leap for mankind”, says, paraphrase Neil Armstrong to the moon landing. And from there, with the flag stuck on a floor, finally, Larissa says goodbye to the land.
It seems a prophecy: the UN proposal today is little more than that. No land, sorry. Seen in this, may have to be Moon.
1:Damascene Chest, Eternal War, Robert Fisk
A Space Exodus from larissa Sansour on Vimeo.
Since the appearance of their first album, and from London, Reem Kelani has placed his name among the great singers Mediterranean.
And “Sprinting Gazelle” (Fuse Records, 2005) makes an interesting review of the Palestinian traditional music contemporary intent. An intense, exciting, with a central idea: culture, and not only the land, are the undeniable proof of the existence of a people.
