This is good - there's something humanizing about presenting facts and argument through character. And as you imply, a fuller use of dramatic elements would change things, ideally intensifying the full human condition of both the moment and the matter at hand. It's much stronger, in my view, to do as you do here in incorporating facts directly into the imaginative text, as is commonly done in novels but often to all-too-limited extents, rather than resorting to the somewhat clumsy technique of attaching factual footnotes to an imaginative text, though that kind of technique is not without its redeeming qualities, and is less commonly done.
I take on a similar normative focus and aesthetic challenge in my own direct issue-based imaginative writing - currently serializing a liberatory partisan literary thriller novel, "Most Revolutionary," in which the left partisans fight for as much as possible under the sun. I do foreground some of the factual basis with a brief note at the beginning of Chapter One, and since the novel centrally involves an assassination attempt against a US President and a not unexpectedly incompetent Secret Service, I've added a brief note also in response to the recent Trump assassination attempt, with the Table of Contents, on the role and power of liberatory fiction: https://fictiongutted.substack.com/p/most-revolutionary-table-of-contents
Otherwise, I deliver the facts entirely within the imaginative context of the story, which is an effort to help realize a revolutionary world. And I think that's what your pieces does here too - it helps create the mindset and the conditions of a better world and future, in an affecting and challenging way.
Excellent! Quite cathartic and much needed. Don't know how you managed to hit most of the salient features of Zionism/Israel...but you did it. You weaved in the Dahyia, Samson, Hannibal, Hague doctrines, the destruction of the aid trucks, the IDF tiktokers, ...and much more. You pulled in ICJ, ICC, UN. I would like to see more of the psychological impact of Zionism on the general Israeli psyche and how they live in a bubble, and the moral corruption of their character. Can't wait to see how you build up the chapters and the main characters.
Super start! Who would you have the movie be directed by?
Very Satisfying read, Justin. If my memory serves me correctly, I believe you've mentioned such a scenario in passing. I love that you are writing about it ... powerful! Thank you.
the nurenberg trials was a sham most nazis either escaped by ratlines to south america,got yank citizenship paperclip or went into adenauers government ,axel springer forlag thyssen owners still thriving nothing new under the sun....
The import of them is the precedent they set, for good and for ill.
Much of USA's intervention was cloaked in the lack of true international nature of the trials, the failures to apply justice equally is another American Hallmark of rules based order. However, they do allow victims who gain sufficient power something to point to when demanding their time in the sun.
This is good - there's something humanizing about presenting facts and argument through character. And as you imply, a fuller use of dramatic elements would change things, ideally intensifying the full human condition of both the moment and the matter at hand. It's much stronger, in my view, to do as you do here in incorporating facts directly into the imaginative text, as is commonly done in novels but often to all-too-limited extents, rather than resorting to the somewhat clumsy technique of attaching factual footnotes to an imaginative text, though that kind of technique is not without its redeeming qualities, and is less commonly done.
I take on a similar normative focus and aesthetic challenge in my own direct issue-based imaginative writing - currently serializing a liberatory partisan literary thriller novel, "Most Revolutionary," in which the left partisans fight for as much as possible under the sun. I do foreground some of the factual basis with a brief note at the beginning of Chapter One, and since the novel centrally involves an assassination attempt against a US President and a not unexpectedly incompetent Secret Service, I've added a brief note also in response to the recent Trump assassination attempt, with the Table of Contents, on the role and power of liberatory fiction: https://fictiongutted.substack.com/p/most-revolutionary-table-of-contents
Otherwise, I deliver the facts entirely within the imaginative context of the story, which is an effort to help realize a revolutionary world. And I think that's what your pieces does here too - it helps create the mindset and the conditions of a better world and future, in an affecting and challenging way.
Excellent! Quite cathartic and much needed. Don't know how you managed to hit most of the salient features of Zionism/Israel...but you did it. You weaved in the Dahyia, Samson, Hannibal, Hague doctrines, the destruction of the aid trucks, the IDF tiktokers, ...and much more. You pulled in ICJ, ICC, UN. I would like to see more of the psychological impact of Zionism on the general Israeli psyche and how they live in a bubble, and the moral corruption of their character. Can't wait to see how you build up the chapters and the main characters.
Super start! Who would you have the movie be directed by?
Very Satisfying read, Justin. If my memory serves me correctly, I believe you've mentioned such a scenario in passing. I love that you are writing about it ... powerful! Thank you.
the nurenberg trials was a sham most nazis either escaped by ratlines to south america,got yank citizenship paperclip or went into adenauers government ,axel springer forlag thyssen owners still thriving nothing new under the sun....
The import of them is the precedent they set, for good and for ill.
Much of USA's intervention was cloaked in the lack of true international nature of the trials, the failures to apply justice equally is another American Hallmark of rules based order. However, they do allow victims who gain sufficient power something to point to when demanding their time in the sun.