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Dan Walsh
1:15 PM (41 minutes ago)
to Catherine
Brother Charles,
Apropos of the other "battle of the camps" poster:
http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/shattered-the-fascist-tanks
...is there anything intrinsically Palestinian in this poster:
http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/syrian-army-out-of-lebanon
There can be, as I see it, at least three ways it can be related to Palestine:
1) The artist is Palestinian
2) The publishers (in France?) were Palestinian
3) Some element of the iconography is Palestinian (mumkin those fighters? Mumkin one of those buildings is the old Holiday Inn? Mumkin something else?
Seems like the Palestinians have had to fight in and out of all the camps in all the countries they are dispersed to...like now in Yarmouk. I always use these posters and this history as my counter to the Zionist propaganda demand that the Palestinians simply "blend in" or be "absorbed" by their brother Arab nations and all will be lovely (for Zionism).
tadamon,
Dan
Dan Walsh
1:16 PM (41 minutes ago)
to Charles
Dan Walsh
1:27 PM (29 minutes ago)
to Rochelle
ya ustaza,
Apropos of the other "battle of the camps" poster:
http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/shattered-the-fascist-tanks
...is there anything intrinsically Palestinian in this poster:
http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/syrian-army-out-of-lebanon
There can be, as I see it, at least three ways it can be related to Palestine:
1) The artist is Palestinian?
2) The publishers (in France?) were Palestinian?
3) Some element of the iconography is Palestinian (Mumkin those fighters? Mumkin one of those buildings is the old Holiday Inn? Mumkin something else?
Rochelle Davis
1:32 PM (24 minutes ago)
to me
not obvious to me, although it rings of that book done by ?Mona Saoudi on Palestinian children's art from Lebanon ...
Charles Tripp
1:53 PM (2 minutes ago)
to me
Dear Dan,
Thanks for this puzzler. Strange that it's printed in France and is in English. However, the slogan would suggest that it's after the summer of 1976, and perhaps particularly after October 1976 by which time the Syrian invasion force had more or less fought the Palestinians and their Lebanese allies to a standstill, preventing them from coming out on top in the civil war.
As far as I know, the Chiyah district in Beirut was then almost exclusively Christian, but the camps of Sabra and Chatila, as well as Bourj al-Barajneh aren't that far away and it's possible that a Palestinian boy might have been living on the fringes of Chiyah.
Hope this is some help and all best wishes,
Charles
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