Just finished watching it.Originally Posted by jon1959
Just like the Oscar winning 'No Other Land' that was shown on Channel 4 recently, it gives a good insight into the mindset and ideology of the settlers (and police and army) that are ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Palestine. The settlers have the guns, the money, the access, the army and police and state (Ben Gvir and Smotrich prominent at the end) and have almost no restraints on them. The Palestinians have mobile phones and courage and a refusal to be driven away by violence and intimidation.
The main settler Yair does a very good Truthpaste impersonation. The Palestinains are just Arab squatters on land given to his Chosen People by their god three and a half thousand years ago as proven by words in the bible. That justifies the pogroms against them!
It also shows that there is opposition from within Israel - although it is a minority and less prominent than a few decades ago, whilst the Jewish diaspora's opposition to the Israeli regime, settlers and (sometimes) Zionist ideology has grown, especially in the USA.
It fits with the recent settler attack on the Palestinian co-director of 'No Other Land' Hamdan Ballal. He was severely beaten by settlers a week ago. The police arrived. The police arrested the victim Ballal and threw him in gaol overnight. Eventually international outrage helped to get him out. Eventually the Academy of Motion Pictures (the Oscars) produced a statement condemning the attack on Ballal and the Israeli state's actions (after initially refusing to name him). This is normal. This is the reality.
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