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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: MT VOID, 10/11/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 15, Whole Number 2349
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:09:40 -0400
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On 10/17/2024 12:03 PM, Paul Dormer wrote:
> In article <ver9qn$2ptvk$1@dont-email.me>, 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