Good Point! It's All Fiction!

Mohammad Bakri
Bakri is an Israeli actor, he's an Israeli citizen, but he's also Palestinian and an Arab, born in a village in northern Galilee when it was a part of the nation of Palestine when it was a pretty smooth-running mixed-bag nation (majority Arabs, but 37% Jews, with Christians in there to boot) in those post-WWI ("The War to End All Wars") days when Jerusalem was its capital. Bakri still lives in his hometown, which is now in the State of Israel, with his wife and six kids.

Bakri is in hot water in Israel right now over a documentary film, Jenin Jenin, he shot back in '03 (God, I remember as a kid (mid-20th Century) hearing old-oldtimers talking about "back in 'ought 3"--I could never have imagined then me using the same "'ought 3" in the 21st Century, though when I use it NOW it isn't oldtimey at all but it's fresh and new thinking and shit like that. I love ironies, remember. Bakri sneaked into Jenin, a Palestinian refugee camp that Israel claimed was a hotbed of PLO and Hamas and Jihads so it sent the kind, considerate, never-d0-wrong Israeli Army into Jenin where they proceeded to send in the famous Israeli Army bulldozers ahead of the troopers where they proceeded to bulldoze down houses--oops, wait a minute--it's this kind of reporting the Israelis are suing Mohammad Bakri over--LIES, the Israelis are saying--the Israeli troopers in reality went into Jenin politely and then they quietly approached each house politely, knocked on the door politely, spoke polite Arab to the people inside the houses informing them they were fixing have their hovels bulldozed down because the kind and gentle Israeli high command felt like they were perhaps terrorists against the Holy Nation of Christian-God-Blessed and Christian-USA-Subsidized Israel...blah, blah, blah. Only after that polite introduction did the bulldozers arrive and proceed to bulldoze all the houses and tents and shit in Jenin down--same as the US Army tried in its invasion of the Falujah area of Baghdad early in our liberation of Baghdad--a success (mission accomplished) that is still sloshing (in blood, mud, and oil) along with Freedom on the March having successfully divided Iraq into 4 states--Kurds, Sunnis, Shi'ites, and the Green Zone, the world's largest and most expensive embassy-fort combination--owned and operated by Halliburton of Dubai and leased from Halliburton by We the People to house comfortably our dignitaries and the royal families of Saudi-Arabia, Dubai, and the Arab Emirates--you know, with the tennis courts, the Olympic-size pools (in a country that has no fresh water for its citizens), the bowling alleys, the baseball fields, basketball courts, Mercedes dealerships--oh, sorry, I'm growling over fresh meat that is totally off my point.

Bakri claims he sneaked himself and a cameraman into Jenin after the Israelis had pulled out to show what was left of the place and to talk to the Palestinians left there and particularly asking them to describe what the Israeli Army had done in their particular instances. Of course, these refugee Palestinians, refugees in their own country, were vehmently anti-Israel--that's why Israeli and American Jews think of Palestinians first as A-rabbs and second as dogs--being an Arab to a Jew is worse than being a dog, and to a Jew there is nothing lower than a dog unless it's "God thank you for not making me a WOMAN."

I interrupt to talk about ironies again--how the Palestinians (Arabs) and the Jewish people are actually genealogical brothers and sisters--and that's the irony of the whole situation--it's a battle of prophets--the writers, entertainers (magicians were big in that part of the world in ancient times; why Jesus didn't want to be associated with the Chaldeans or magicians of his day--even though that's all old Joshua ben Joseph was--a magician-revolutionary), artists, spin doctors--it's a battle really of Instincts made Legends--it's at Jung's stage he called the Law of Opposites (Yin-Yang; good and evil, etc.)--the solution via Jung: Transcendence! Very American, transcendentally speaking.

And then this Mohammad Bakri in defending himself against charges of fraud by the Israeli Army--Jenin Jenin has only been seen on Israel television and is currently banned from showing in most of the world--said something that totally spun me around in my tracks, he said, afterall, all of this is fiction! Whoaaa. Say no more, I said. It's all FICTION. Damn, this dude was right; he hit it square on the head; all of this is FICTION...and I knew where he was going from there--he is an actor--he knows what's fiction and what's not; he's a filmmaker, and film is by the time it's produced FICTION. History is FICTION. Wow! I, thegrowlingwolf am FICTION.

It is all FICTION: the War in Iraq is Fiction, written by the Neo-Con writers, Wolfowitz, Scooter Libby, Rove, and you know the others; the Pentagon uses writers to compose its scripts. War scripts all have names, like "Operation Blow Fly for Democracy"--those sort of Ivy League graduate school titles--but it's all fiction. In the eye of the writers--the composers, the Big Picture painters, the graphic designers, the military computer whizzes--same nerds who work on your G5 when you take it to a Mac Center--oh yeah, I'm sure they outsource a lot of their computer stuff to India and Malaysia, which is OK acc. to the Pentagon since all their scripts are written in English and they suppose the stupid Indians and Malaysians don't speak or read English well enough to sell the secrets they learn on the secrets blackmarket--the fact that Indians and Malaysians were part of Queen Vicky's British Empire rule--you learned English or you "perished," a good British word used a lot in British fiction, has totally passed by their intellects.

I am gonna start taking the Fifth--yeah, the fifth of Jameson's Gold that's sittin' over there in me bar.

thegrowlingwolf
for The Daily Growler