BGTV: "Saleh Al-Din - not just a humanitarian corridor"
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Prof. Daniela Talmon-Heller from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and director of the Center for the Study of Conversion and Interfaith Encounters (CSOC) in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, about the revered Muslim general in Palestinian and Jewish collective memory.
Following his dramatic victory over the Crusaders in 1187, Saladin became a mythological hero revered in the East and the West.
He is remembered both as a jihadist fighting colonial rule, and as a benevolent, compassionate and tolerant ruler, and inspired diverse ideologies.
Salah Al-Din occupies a special place in Palestinian national folklore and historiography, and surprisingly also in Jewish historiography and Hebrew journalism, where his character symbolizes the threat posed to Israel by a charismatic leader with the power to unite the Arabs on the one hand, and hope for renewed Jewish-Muslim cooperation, on the other.
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