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Subject: Friday at Oz veGaon: The invention of the "Palestinians"
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womeningreen@womeningreen.org Friday at Oz veGaon- The invention of the "Palestinians"
This coming Friday, November 21st, at 9:00 am at the Oz veGaon Forest,
we will hear Shai Ben Tekoa on his book
The Phantom Nation - Inventing the
"Palestinians" as the Obstacle to Peace.
http://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Nation-Inventing-Palestinians-Obstacle-ebook/dp/B00EVAEW3Q (only $8.49)
As our dear friend Doris Montrose of the Children of Holocaust
Survivors wrote when Sha'i came to LA to talk about his book:
There is hardly a person born after 1980 (or earlier) who has any
reason to believe that a Palestinian people did not exist in a country
called Palestine. That is our fault for enforcing this narrative
propaganda that has been the focus of the international community and
the cause of the problems and danger faced by Israel. The narrative
must be changed and Sha'i ben-Tekoa gives us the tools to do this.
Hired for a special project by the Office of Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir, Sha'i ben-Tekoa discovered the first United Nations document
using the term "Palestinians" as it is used today. And the date was
eye-opening: three years after 1967's Six-Day War. In his research
into the entire UN archive dealing with the Arab war against Israel,
he came across no reference to the Palestinian people before 1970.
After completing his assignment for the Government of Israel, Mr.
Ben-Tekoa dug deeper into the origins of this heretofore unheard of
nationality. The Land of Israel is arguably the most written about
real estate in the world over thousands of years in the scores of
languages of Crusaders, conquerors, pilgrims and tourists, not one of
whom ever wrote or said a word about meeting any "Palestinians" in
their time in the Holy Land.
And now Ben-Tekoa has written a book about what he discovered and
uncovered: the invention of a phantom nation, the "Palestinian
Narrative," one of the great feats of psychological warfare in the
history of Mankind.
Sha'i ben-Tekoa was born, raised and educated in the United States. He
received a B.A. in Comparative Religion from Columbia University and
did graduate work in same at the University of Chicago Divinity
School. A traveler in Arab lands, he served in the Yom Kippur War
effort of 1973. His articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict, terrorism
and Islamic fundamentalism have appeared in The Wall Street Journal,
National Review, Midstream, Congress Monthly and other publications.
He appeared on American Public Broadcasting's The MacNeil-Lehrer
NewsHour. In preparation for 1991's historic Arab-Israeli peace
conference in Madrid, he worked on assignment for the Office of the
Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir. Formerly the lead English
language commentator for IsraelNationalNews.com, his Internet radio
commentary and music program can be heard at
www.deprogramprogram.com.
The lecture will be in Hebrew with simultaneous translation into
English. Please dress warmly.
Transportation by preregistration only (Till Thursday noon the latest.)
From Jerusalem: Renee Margolis 052-3294194
From Kiryat Arba Hevron: 050-5500834
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