Tamir Zadok’s work “Gaza Canal” is constructed like a promotional or propaganda film for an invented project – the digging of the Gaza Canal – a project that allegedly started in the year 2000 and rendered Gaza into an island completely disconnected from Palestine / Israel.
This work can be read as offering a futuristic model of peace through global, economic and touristic projects, in the spirit of Shimon Peres’ vision of the “New Middle East”. However, the work actually offers an extreme realization of the long-lasting Israeli fantasy—"to throw all the Arabs into the sea." The work is a satire that ridicules Israel’s long history of national projects that change the environment and shape it according to a half biblical and half modernist vision.
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