Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: MT VOID, 10/11/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 15, Whole Number 2349 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:09:40 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:09:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7cdde554170b1c4aebdcfd9547f84313"; logging-data="3116059"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18PJWn3iK41P6eKpGz5eqsGXuLm4bcyrMc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:oy+Y7CWYe7S0IlIKbJn9iJe3mfU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1877 On 10/17/2024 12:03 PM, Paul Dormer wrote: > In article , petertrei@gmail.com > (Cryptoengineer) wrote: > >> >> Similarly, the litany of resistance groups was a >> clearly a play on the alphabet soup of Palestinian resistance >> groups opposing the Israeli government at the time the film >> was made. > > Although, my father, who was in the Labour Party in the UK from the late > forties, reckoned that part of that bit was influenced by all the > left-wing splinter groups that were around in the forties and fifties. I suppose its possible, but the Palestinian groups were active at the time the film was being made, in the right place, and like Brians group, fighting against a colonial power. pt