{"id":5021,"date":"2020-07-06T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19chronicles.com\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2020-07-06T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T17:44:00","slug":"the-covid-19-world-as-a-global-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19chronicles.com\/the-covid-19-world-as-a-global-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"The world as global Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
For Palestinians \u2013 as for many refugees in camps and detention \u2013 a state of lockdown is nothing new. In Elia Suleiman\u2019s gentle comedy It Must Be Heaven<\/em>, he seems to foretell, with empty city-scapes, and omnipresent police \u2013 how COVID-19 can affect the most vulnerable. As species die around us, oceans rise, more and more people will be forced to flee. We are now besieged by a 1.5 billion year old life-form: a virus. Suleiman suggests we learn from this experience to live in the state of siege epitomized by Palestine. His surreal film inspires us to observe, to reflect on our common humanity, and to quietly, and resolutely, resist state solutions that put security ahead of human well-being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n