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Ramadan Vol.1 Issue 62 December 2023 ELITE

Kareem

One of the most famous and <banned= books in The Israeli narrative presented many heroes
Israel, written by Eyal Weizmann called like Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin , Ariel
<Hollow land= is considered a book of Sharon and Shimon Peres who joined military
conviction, by explaining the Israeli’s organizations such as Haganah , Irgun and
occupational architecture and method in Lehi and if we focused on the smartly chosen
building settlement, in a way that strangles and names of theses military organizations , the
expels the Palestinians. meaning of <Lehi= is the <fighters for the
Let’s hear the Israel story from the beginning. freedom of Israel=, so it’s a story with an
The myth-like narrative starts where Israel organization called the freedom fighters, which
presents itself in the weak moment of birth to normally stimulates the audience’s sympathy
earn empathy, starting with the Jewish and let them believe that Jewish bravery and
kingdoms on the land of Palestine that fell apart sacrifice succeeded in forcing Britain out of the
and the temple of Solomon was destroyed along
with it ,ever since Jews were dispersed land , that there is a place for independence
throughout the world and for 2000 years , they from the mandate and the Jew’s freedom from
were subjected to discrimination and oppression historical diaspora.
that peaked at the Holocaust, and as a survival Adding to this, the UN Resolution 181
attempt, the remaining Jews decided to escape announced on November 1948 which
and return to the land of ancestors. partitioned the land of Palestine into an Arab
The rest of the narrative is taught to children state and a Jewish state, then on 14th May
since sixth grade in their geography textbook, 1948 Israel became a country with a prime
describing the return of the brave Jews settlers minister called David Ben Gurion completes
who bought the land and built it by using all and the manipulated story.
every means of modern technology, they arrived
and found a land of ruins and swamps, so they The announcement of the arrival of another
began digging wells to provide fresh water and villain to attack the Israeli dream reinforced
using fertilizers so that the land could be farmed, the legitimacy of their narrative. According to
they also developed technologies, cleared the this one, a day after announcing their state,
swamps, and filled them in so they were able to seven Arab armies including Egypt, Jordan,
eliminate the malaria that was killing them. Syria, Lebanon, KSA, Iraq, Palestine decided
They established cities like Tel Aviv, the first to unite and attack the newborn state, in sight
port in the region, despite that the sea there is to exterminate Jews, by symbolizing it to the
shallow with little depth so it’s hard to build a story of Israelites , the story of David and
port, but the settlers managed to do it anyway.
Goliath, David was the young weak man who
will fight the strong , giant and mighty Goliath
This part mainly focuses on stimulating and
enticing the admiration of these settlers and and for David’s faith and courage he will
their bravery, to paint a picture of the weak defeat Goliath. The narrative didn’t stop here
settlers who once sought a chance they thrived! but it added that the Palestinian Arabs left
Then to complete the narrative saturated with their land to give the chance for the seven
empathy and admiration, there must be a Arab armies to annihilate the Jews, and Israel
conflict where they defeat the villain. The British tried with many ways to convince Palestinians
mandate was the first one, the one who hinders to return to their lands, but they refused and
the Jews’ migrations and tries to abort their preferred to live as refugees.
dream of a state by stopping their escape from
40 the holocaust in Europe and restoring their
safety in their <new home.=