Saturday, July 03, 2010

Who do the Palistinians Support?

A very nice little article in Open Democracy about the reach of the World Cup of Football.
Who do they support in Ramallah? Read all about it here.

Like the author, Khaled Hroub, I too
... would love to have seen, the ultimate surrealism of watching the games projected live onto the “separation wall” in Bethlehem. Al-Jazeera and other media report the wall’s use as a huge screen draws massive and cheerful crowds from the city and its refugee camps. This is something really exciting: conflated resistance and cynicism are precariously interwoven in one big transcending act that allows the besieged Palestinians to set themselves virtually free and go global.
When is a separation wall not a wall? When it is a window on the world!