Wed, Nov 29, at noon on the South Mall of the UT campus, the Palestine Solidarity Committee, a student organization, will be having a mock Israel-Palestine soccer game.

The game will be followed by a screening of Goal Dreams, a documentary that narrates the struggles of the Palestinian national soccer team, at 8pm at Monkeywrench Books.

The game at NOON will be a humorous portrayal through theater of the historical injustice in Palestine, and the unfairness of the current political situation. It will feature gross inequalities between the rules the two sides must observe to show the inequality in power between the two sides; unpunished bullying of the Palestinian players by the Israeli team to indicate the conquest of Palestine and the current Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza; and a powerless, somewhat sympathetic United Nations referee continually overridden by a powerful, wholeheartedly pro-Israel United States referee, reflecting the actual policies toward the conflict of the UN and the US.

This performance aims to eschew the tepid approach of the discourse of ‘balance’ between the Israeli and Palestinian sides while opening room for discussion of the conflict, and hopefully leave a less-than-cynical comment on the current international situation, in which power is often the ultimate arbiter in conflicts.