From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
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