February 8th, 1987 Hebron
We came back and had a team meeting to discuss our direction. I did an exercise with the team called “lies and secrets,” a brainstorm on how to expose the lies about life here. For example, in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States,
(1) the lie was that black people didn’t want to vote,
(2) the secret was that they were not allowed to vote,
(3) the moral imperative was that all people should be allowed to vote
(4) and the alternative was to allow blacks to vote, leaving the white power structure with the dilemma of
(5) having their lie exposed if they refused.
We then applied these five categories to a number of lies about life here. These included ideas like “Palestinians are terrorists,” “This land was given to the Jews by God,” “Jews and Arabs can’t live together in peace,” and “Security comes from guns.”
