Myths, once they are inserted and settled into people’s mind, are nearly impossible to dislodge. Perhaps the Post-modernists who gave us deconstruction, can start constructing a psychological, literary, judicial methodology for de-mythification.
Two precedents come to mind:
1. The relatively successful model of of de-Nazification, which aimed, among other things, at loosening the grip on the German mind of myth upon which the Third Reich was erected. and
2. The failure of the discovery of the “Judas gospel” to even make a dent on the traditional Christian narrative. You may remember that The Gospel of Judas gives a different view of the relationship between Jesus and Judas. contrary to what canonical Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell, in which Judas is the very embodiment of an avaricious traitor, this Gospel portrays Judas as acting at Jesus’ behest when he turns him over to the authorities.
Somehow I can’t believe that this news about a staged film that shows a small child being killed by Israelis will have much currency among the Palestinians.
