Palestine post 9-11

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Dr. Marwan Asmar
Online Journal Contributing Writer

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3735.shtml

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As the world remembers the anniversary of 11 September, Osama Al Zain’s feature documentary Palestine Post 9/11 becomes ever more relevant in providing an analysis of the international system where war became an instrument of politics and priorities and alliances reordered to fight terrorist threats that may have been blown out of all proportions.

Al Zain’s documentary is a full-length feature examining the attack on New York and Washington from a Palestinian perspective, suggesting 9/11 has been a disaster for the Palestinians, and which Israel exploited to provide a false linkage between Palestinian ambitions for statehood and Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. In so doing, it has fed into the growth of Christian fundamentalism in the USA and Christian Zionism in the Bush administration and built a rock hard alliance with Israel under the banner of fighting global terrorism.

After 9/11 new factions developed in the “US government and the intellectual contours of American life” to make sure “no even-handed policy ever occurs” and the Israeli view remains supreme by hijacking American foreign policy through its totally biased media.

Palestine Post 9/11, meticulously navigates through the complicated set of relations that developed after 11 September 2001, whose hallmarks were obtrusiveness, fighting terrorism, and adventurous politics and which on the Palestinian level meant tightening the screws of occupation and making sure talk of final status negotiations take a backseat which continues to be the case today. . . .

[Vegasaurus]

1. Israel had nothing to do with 9/11

except that the crazy conspiracy theorists postulate that there were no Muslims at all flying those planes into the world trade towers, (in fact, there were no planes at all!!). It was just a big Israeli plot to bring a war to the middle east.

:sarcasm:

We all saw the video of Palestinians dancing in the street on 9/11, celebrating death of Americans.

We see the videos of Palestinians dancing in the streets and passing out candy at the news of murder (by their suicide bombers) of Israelis.

Life has gotten miserable for the Palestinians because of Hamas, and their own internal issues.

Israel got out of Gaza since 2001, and the Palestinians still managed to ruin that opportunity.

Perhaps it is time they looked within their own leadership, and placed blame where blame is due. Nothing will improve for them until they do.

[LeftishBrit]

2. I don't think (at least from the review) that they're saying Israel was *involved in* 9-11...

just that they used the aftermath, with people's fear of terror, as an excuse for hardline attitudes to Palestinians.

FWIW, I doubt this. I think Israelis have been far more influenced by local terrorist attacks than by 9-11. 9-11 was less key to attitude changes in other countries than in the USA. To a large extent, this is for the obvious reason that 9-11 happened in the USA and killed mostly American citizens; but also many other countries, certainly including Israel, had plenty of previous experience of terrorism, so that it did not come as something totally new.