It’s not my problem
We watched Amreeka last night and the actress, Nisreen Faour, was so engaging as a newly arrived to the U.S. Palestinian mother trying to find the best place for her son to grow up; I expect we’ll see more from her. The movie is definitely worth renting – add it to your Netflix list.
The Arabic music was as familiar to me as Sephardic music, the food was most of what I grew up eating because of my father’s background and having Turkish grandparents, the character’s mother back in Israel sounded just like my mother-in-law with, “even if the roads were paved of gold in America I would never go there.” Ah, all so familiar. And yet right now, 2011, Palestinians and Jews are killing each other. Insanity.
Here is the NYT alert I just received:
Obama Backs Mideast Plan Based on 1967 Borders
Declaring that “the dream of a Jewish and democratic state cannot be fulfilled with permanent occupation,” President Obama said that a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must embody two sovereign states based on pre-1967 borders.