Fatima, A Traitor? (The Zionist Story Oscar)

How many of you know that Palestine was there in this year’s Oscar? Probably not that many. And you know what, the musical short film “West Bank Story” won the best short film Oscar. The question that rises: is it any good? I’ll try to answer this.

I watched the film few minutes after it won the Oscar. Many critics said the film is hilarious and will make you laugh till tears. From a personal experience, I was about to throw up! If I am to give the director Ari Sandel the benefit of doubt I will consider him a naive who knows nothing about the Zionist regime and its crimes against the Palestinians. Otherwise I shall consider the director part of the Zionist propaganda to feed the world an upside-down version of what’s actually going on in Palestine.

The film is starred by Ben Denmark “David” and Noureen Dewulf “Fatima”. David, an Israeli soldier, and Fatima, a fast food cashier, fall in love “defying a 2000-year tradition of hatred and war between their families, Jews and Muslims”. Both Arabs and Jews are portrayed as experts in provoking each other with their weapons are Hummus and Kosher. The only wise and nice Jew in the film is the Israeli Soldier and at the other side it’s only Fatima who tries to make the effort to narrow the gap between the two families.

Mr. Sandel, if you have a little bit of rationality you will admit that occupation soldiers are never nice and wise. Israeli soldiers who serve the Zionist apartheid regime in its plot to cleanse the Palestinians never care for those they are killing and sabotaging their lives every day. Israeli soldiers do not raid Palestinian territories to enjoy helping the Palestinians. The only fun an Israeli soldier enjoys is to shoot or beat a Palestinian and watch him or her bleed till death. And to keep you updated with how nice the Israeli soldiers are with the Palestinians, here are some photos taken during the still-ongoing raid of the Israeli Occupation army on the Palestinian city of Nablus. As I’m writing these words I’m also listening to the news that the Israeli army are arresting the parents and wives of some “wanted” Palestinian heroes in the city. Very nice and humane, isn’t it?

Mr. Sandel, as your film title states, you were depicting two neighbourhoods in the Palestinian West Bank, Arab and Jewish, who need to live in peace and harmony side to side. You are very mistaken Ari. Israelis do not have the right to live in the West Bank or any other place in Palestine; only Jewish Palestinians do along with Muslim and Christian Palestinians. Even if 58 years have passed since the Israeli occupation of Palestine no one can deny the fact that this occupation is illegal, that Palestine belongs to and only to the Palestinian nation and that the only people who have the right to return to Palestine from the Diaspora are the Palestinian refugees not the Jews. With your claims you are neglecting tens of international conventions and resolutions which instate the Palestinians right to freedom, self-determination and return to their homeland, Palestine.

Mr. Sandel, the Palestinian problem is NOT with the Jews, but with the Zionists who pretend to speak in the name of the Jews when in fact they only speak in the name of the Devil and act on his behalf (probably worse). Palestinians (Muslims, Christians and Jews) have been living as one united nation for centuries and they still do. In the 1920s the chief rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, personally went to king Abdullah of Trans-Jordan to declare the Jewish communities’ loyalty, and in order to elucidate the true Jewish stance, which was in total opposition to the Zionist movement. In 1947, The then-chief rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, sent a letter to the United Nations in Lake Placid, stating “I have under me 60,000 constituents, we do not want to be included in this state of Israel that you are creating..” Unfortunately, they where totally ignored.

Mr. Sandel, Muslims do NOT have a problem with the Jews. History tells you that the Jews lived their best era under Islamic governance in Arabia, North Africa and Europe. Muslims don’t hate Jews Ari. Muslims care for their Palestinian brothers and sisters, no matter what religion they follow, because it doesn’t need a religion to dictate you common sense. When I take your bag the only justice is to return your bag to you, and you are the victim and I am the guilty until I do so. This is common sense Mr. Sandel. It’s not only Muslims who care; The vast majority of Christians do know the truth and support the Palestinian cause. Don’t get fooled with your government’s policy which supports Israel along the way. Your president and government are a bunch of Zionists who have the full support of the extremely strong Zionist lobby which also occupies the people of the United States with its powerful media machine. Yet people who seek the truth will always find a way to reach it even when the Zionist media tried day and night to brainwash them. If you really long for peace in the Middle East you need to be among those who seek the truth, unveil it and stand against the racist criminal ideology of Zionism and its advocates.

Mr. Sandel, I have to congratulate you for your exceptional imagination. A Palestinian woman falling in love with a Zionist Israeli soldier; that’s only in your dreams! No Palestinian woman will ever betray her people or cause and sell her honour and heart to someone whose duty is to kill her, her parents, brothers, sisters, children, neighbours, friends, classmates and colleagues. If a woman does then she doesn’t deserve to be Palestinian any more. What makes someone a Palestinian is the love for his homeland, Palestine, and his nation, the Palestinians.

Winning the Oscar doesn’t change facts Mr. Sandel. We the Palestinians will keep fighting with all means for our just and righteous cause, and one day –hopefully very soon- PALESTINE WILL BE FREE, FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA.