The Orientalism of Israeli Troops Dancing http://www.juancole.com/2010/07/the-orientalism-of-israeli-troops-dancing.html

Some comments on the semiotics. The piece begins with the Muslim call to prayer in al-Khalil, a Palestinian city in the Palestinian West Bank, which Israelis call Hebron. Some 30,000 Palestinians are being kept in an urban prison for the sake of 600 far-right armed Jewish colonists who have squatted on Palestinian property in the city. Al-Khalil (“Hebron”), like the 2.5 million Palestinian residents of the West Bank, has been militarily occupied by Israel since 1967. Israeli squatters have stolen private Palestinian land and control 42% of the West Bank, according to B’Tselem. The video depicts Hebron as mired in tradition and virtually empty, which mirrors the Israeli Orientalist view of Palestinian...