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Newsnight hasn't done an Israel/Palestinians feature for quite a while but last night's edition plugged a new Palestinian film opening in cinemas here this weekend - a film that has apparently upset socially conservative Muslims in Israel whilst simultaneously 'showing' that Israeli Arabs are treated as "second-class citizens" in Israel, even in liberal Tel Aviv.
Is that a case of the BBC having their cake and eating it?
The film's director Maysaloun Hamoud spoke to Kirsty Wark and was almost as hard to understand as Kirsty.
That said, Maysaloun's English is a good deal better than my Arabic, which barely extends beyond 'Allahu Akhbar', 'jihad', 'kuffir', 'taqiyya' and various words for headscarves.
The film's director Maysaloun Hamoud spoke to Kirsty Wark and was almost as hard to understand as Kirsty.
That said, Maysaloun's English is a good deal better than my Arabic, which barely extends beyond 'Allahu Akhbar', 'jihad', 'kuffir', 'taqiyya' and various words for headscarves.
Craig, you appear to be impervious to the attempts of the BBC to indoctrinate you. They must have told you a thousands times that algebra, alcohol and chemistry are all derived from Arabic...thanks to the superior science found in the Islamic world. :)
ReplyDeleteMB, that wouldn't be the "superior science" won through 'jihad' (<-strike that), erm... military aggression when the Arabs took over the libraries of more advanced ancient centres of learning? The one which they used as a foundation to make other scientific discoveries? Can't remember the name given to this period by historians. Was it Islam's Golden Period?
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