This Land is Mine

The video below is a dramatic animation about the history of violence in Palestine by Nina Paley (see her description of the project). It is arguably a secular lament for the history of war in the region. The video is also an implicit critique of religion – or at least religion with nationalistic/territorialist tenets – and its role in fermenting war. In the final scene, the land belongs to death, and death is maybe even the “god” whom the soldiers in conflicts have served.

You don’t have to agree with it, but its a perspective on Palestinian history that is worth thinking about.