Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Israel Trying to Hide Palestinians? - Saree Makdisi

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/22/Excavating_Memory_in_Jerusalem

Saree Makdisi, author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, argues that one ulterior motive for Israel's separation barriers is to "render Palestinians invisible to Jewish colonists." Makdisi shows photos demonstrating how Israel attempts to disguise the walls.

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In 2004, construction began in Jerusalem on the local branch of the Los Angeles-based Museum of Tolerance, designed by the leading American architect, Frank Gehry. The museum is now being built over the remains of what had been the largest and most important Muslim cemetery in Palestine, which had been in continual use from the time of the Crusades up until 1948.

The clash between the two competing claims to the same site offers a paradigmatic case to explore and rethink the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, since all of the elements of the larger conflict are also in play in the struggle over this specific site. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Professor Saree Makdisi is a professor of English Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books on British Romanticism, his area of expertise. He also writes on contemporary Arab politics and culture.

Makdisi is the nephew of the late Edward Said and the grandson of Anis Makdisi, a distinguished professor of Arabic at the American University of Beirut.

Widely published in his academic area, Makdisi has also written many commentaries on Palestine for publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, London Review of Books and the San Francisco Chronicle.

In 2008, Makdisi published his book Palestine Inside Out: Everyday Occupation. The book combines the personal experiences of daily life under occupation with an analysis of how the occupation functions as a whole.

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[k166a]

Israel is like one of those clingy "friends" who puts on a friendly face when talking to us, but really they just cause mischief and only bring more and more unnecessary drama into our lives.

Time to find new friends methinks...

[blackiron60]

Out of sight and out of mind - the same strategy employed in South Africa under Apartheid, the same strategy employed in the United States under segregation and the same strategy employed by the Nazis with regard to Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and every other group they considered "undesirable". Israel's actions here, especially given its own history, are nothing short of tyrannical.

[TheAdamedge]

@triplecheck4 yeah there is no palestine because some people from germany own land far away?

[rachelgolem]

Israel is just like South Africa, except we don't have an 18% HIV infection rate.

[macbrack04]

Cause and Effect!!!!!

[triplecheck4]

This Shameless prof. is nothing short of an hypocrite. Of course he ignores Arab terrorism when it comes to Israel, and in fact he careless about the ordinary Arabs as much as he hates Israel. Indeed he should go back to Lebanon where he was born and care of the life of the Arabs now called "Palestinians" in Lebanon. Disgusting Makdisi, his hatred of Israel/Jews is glaring, nothing changed.

[pinky315]

thats true my brother my peopl (palestieniens ) have been over taken by them and have made us suffer for to long

[10sodot]

@Forkroute

try reading some of noam chomsky's work.

[10sodot]

@Forkroute

as a confessed skeptic you sure come across as dogmatic in your approach.

i found that happened to me too after living there so long.

[10sodot]

Forkroute

Forkroute

i know all about israel .i lived there for more than a decade .

and grew up in a zionist family.

the uganda program seems so much better now.