Metropolitan Opera puts on Ant-Semitic opera
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'The Death of Klinghoffer': The Repulsive Libretto
"My father’s house was razed...In nineteen forty-eight... When the Israelis passed... Over our street"
6.20.2014 by Daniel Mael
truthrevolt.org
Over the next few weeks, TruthRevolt will provide the libretto of the anti-Semitic opera The Death of Klinghoffer one scene at a time.
The Metropolitan Opera has come under fire for its decision to host the production in the fall and recently canceled the live HD broadcasts which were scheduled to reach 2,000 theaters in 66 countries.
The text of the first scene of the prologue is particularly egregious and deals with the foundation of Israel and the Israeli War of Independence:
CHORUS OF EXILED PALESTINIANS
My father’s house was razed
In nineteen forty-eight
When the Israelis passed
Over our street.
The house was built of stone
With a courtyard inside
Where, on a hot day,
one Could sit in shade
Under a tree, and have?
A glass of something cool.
Coolness rose like a wave
From our pure well.
No one was turned away.
The doorstep had worn down:
I see in my mind’s eye
A crescent moon.
Of that house, not a wall
In which a bird might nest
Was left to stand.
Israel Laid all to waste.
Though we have paid to drink
Our water, and our wood
Is sold to us, we thank
?The only God.
Let the supplanter look
Upon his work. Our faith
Will take the stones he broke
And break his teeth.
According to the Zionist Organization of America, the acting that accompanies the vocal performance does not help mitigate the offensive language:
Meanwhile, a little Arab girl supposedly watches Israeli soldiers brutally driving Arabs from their homes. Arab women and children are shown fleeing for their lives, while Israeli soldiers are shown shooting, hitting innocent Arabs with rifle butts, chasing the fleeing Arabs, and slapping an old Arab woman who is sitting passively in the dirt, flattening pita dough.
The entire opening libretto and scene is of course a work of pure defamatory fiction, designed to malign Israel and the Jewish people. Jews did not drive Arabs from Israel or raze Arab homes in 1948. Instead, Jewish leaders begged the Arabs to remain in their homes and to live together in peace. British police reports from the British headquarters in Haifa Israel at the time confirmed:
“Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives, to get their shops and their businesses open and to be assured that their lives and interests will be safe.”
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