on October 3, 2023, 5:53 pm, in reply to "####ing Baddiel and non-Jewish actors being cast as jews...AGAIN"
There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.
When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.
Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Golda_Meir
But yeah, let's make the issue about whether the actress playing her was from the correct ethnicity, or at least looked like she was without having to use prosthetics. Hmmm, seems a bit ... problematic.
I
Tell your story; Ask a question; Interpret generously
http://storybythethroat.wordpress.com/tell-ask-listen/
Responses
« Back to index | View thread »