APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday June 30, 2017
Quote of the day:
“I saw places where the word ‘terrorists’ was written on photographs taken by Palestinians. But after
all, they do not call themselves as such. It’s part of terminological camouflaging, which subordinated their
creative work to the colonial process in which the occupier controls the material that’s
captured.”
--Dr. Rona Sela, an Israeli curator and art historian, exposed some 38,000 films, 2.7 million photographs, 96,000 audio recordings and 46,000 maps and aerial photos taken by Palestinians that had been taken and kept in the IDF Archive since 1948, by order of Israel’s first prime minister and defense minister, David Ben-Gurion. More Palestinian materials exist in a collection – whose exact size and full details remain unknown – of “war booty films” seized by the IDF from Palestinian archives in raids over the years, though primarily in the 1982 Lebanon War. The material presents an alternative to the Zionist history that denied the Palestinians’ existence here, said Sela.
--Dr. Rona Sela, an Israeli curator and art historian, exposed some 38,000 films, 2.7 million photographs, 96,000 audio recordings and 46,000 maps and aerial photos taken by Palestinians that had been taken and kept in the IDF Archive since 1948, by order of Israel’s first prime minister and defense minister, David Ben-Gurion. More Palestinian materials exist in a collection – whose exact size and full details remain unknown – of “war booty films” seized by the IDF from Palestinian archives in raids over the years, though primarily in the 1982 Lebanon War. The material presents an alternative to the Zionist history that denied the Palestinians’ existence here, said Sela.
Around 15% of the Jewish settlers’ population in the West Bank are of American origin, American
Jews who have made Aliyah (emigrated to Israel), and chose to settle the West Bank.
