Ronnie Kasrils: Palestine mon amour, we do see you
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By Ronnie Kasrils
An evocative French film set in a Hiroshima destroyed by the United States atomic bomb has been haunting me these dreadful days of carnage in Gaza.
I refer to the 1959 anti-war masterpiece Hiroshima Mon Amour. It resonates with the incremental genocide of the Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) in exploring issues of memory, seeing and responsibility. Israeli bombers demolishing a TV centre, inventing a Hamas presence, aimed to obstruct the exposure of their ongoing crimes, rammed this home for me.
The truth must prevail. It cannot be wished away. It must not be distorted to make the victim responsible, whitewash the perpetrator, and provide a smokescreen for its backers.
Palestine, Mon Amour
People gather in Brooklyn to demonstrate in support of Palestinians in New York City, United States on May 15, 2021 [Tayfun Coşkun - Anadolu Agency] May 24, 2021 at 7:52 pm
An evocative French film set in a Hiroshima destroyed by the United States atomic bomb in 1945 haunted me throughout the latest dreadful days of carnage in Gaza. I refer to the 1959 anti-war masterpiece
Hiroshima Mon Amour. It resonates with the ethnic cleansing and incremental genocide of the Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) in exploring issues of memory, seeing and responsibility. Israeli bombs demolishing a TV centre and inventing a Hamas presence, aimed to obstruct the exposure of the state s ongoing crimes, rammed this point home for me.