This short video extract conveys a vivid account of how changes brought about by the 1948 Palestinian Nakba catastrophe also severed the reality for the minority native arab Jewish occupants of Palestine.

Having to come to terms with the tumultuous effect of forced seperations within their culture, dividing a longstanding socio-ethnic coexistence shared with the Arab Muslims and Christians of their society. A new reality depicting what is acceptable to acknowledge in their new homeland - and what should be erased from memory - somehow did not fit comfortably with some.

The landscape's scars of a forced forgetfulness have remained, profoundly and poignantly comforting to those who accept the fact that here lies, in this land now defined as Israel, a neurosis of forbidden truth - of what had been shaped and the discord that has followed, what has been oppressed and the existence that it denies.


(...thanks Abe for the video)

Anil Korotane, Belonging