An old woman weeps after the Israeli are gone.The scorched body of a dead man lies at her feet.
Her son? Perhaps a grandson?
According to Israel, this did not happen! Hence the
murder of the Iyad Samouni, Executive Producer of Jenin,
and ongoing persecution of Mohammad Bakri, film maker.However,
21st century technology is changing their censorship capabilities.
MEDIA WITH CONSCIENCE
Jenin Jenin depicts the true story of Israeli colossal barbarism. There is no doubt left, the Jewish State is the ultimate enemy of humanity and humanism. It also presents the Palestinian ordeal facing the Zionist evil. Clearly, surviving the Israeli occupation is nothing but heroism.
Soon after Jenin Jenin was released, after only three showings, the film was banned by the Israeli Film Board (2002), accusing the film of being libelous for calling itself a documentary despite documenting only one 'side' of the story. One may ask the Israeli Film Board whether they also ban holocaust documentaries for failing to present the Nazi or even the SS ‘side’ of the story.
Bakri petitioned the High Court of Justice against the censor for prohibiting the screening of the film on the grounds that it distorted the truth. After a long fight, the court rejected the censor's decision.
In 2004, the Israeli High Court finally upheld its earlier overturn of the ban, but joined the Film Board in labeling the film a "propagandistic lie," based on Israeli sources which acknowledged only 52 Palestinian deaths, 38 of whom Israeli sources argued were armed fighters.
You can always tell when the Israelis pay a visit.
They leave skeletons behind.
Skeletons of people, houses, cities,
anything that once flourished with life.
In 2007, five IDF soldiers who participated in the Jenin refugee camp massacre sued the Cinamatheques in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for screening the film in the midst of the ban, and sued Bakri for 2.5 million NIS for producing the film. In July 2008 Bakri was acquitted of the charges.
Dear lord these people live in denial and lies so badly it is amazing they can walk straight so crooked and winding are their minds.
Jenin-Jenin earned two awards: the "Best Film" award at the Carthage International Film Festival, 2002, and the International Prize for Mediterranean Documentary Film-making and Reporting.
Lyad Samoudi the film's Executive Producer, was killed at Alyamoun at the end of the filming by Israeli soldiers on 23 June 2009.
There was not much recording in the destruction of the Jenin Massacre. Unlike Gaza, there are almost no films, just moving testimonies and photographs of the aftermath. In Gaza, on the other hand, much to the unconcealed fury of Israel and its apologists, footage, very often live, was broadcast around the world. Twenty first century technology broke their bloody media ban. After all, image counts and you do not hold respect in the international arena when your soldiers are shooting old women, babies and livestock. Again I recommend Peace Propaganda and the Promised Land to understand the Israeli lock on information.
The rest of the world seems to take an entirely different view of Mr. Bakris' Accomplishment.
Here are a few very current links regarding the turmoil this film created just this past weekend when Mohammad Bakri was nominated as the 2010 Filmmaker of Free Speech, to honour his art and film-making at the International Film Festival in Berlin.
The Israeli Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat sparked irate reactions over the affair. To which Bakri's supporters responded,
"The minister does not represent us," said Scandar Copti, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated film "Ajami" and presented the prize to Israeli Arab director Mohammed Bakri in Berlin on Friday. "There are those who push toward hatred, but we want to unify. It is too bad that those who want to get the two peoples to meet and bring them closer are considered haters of Israel."
Here are a few very current links regarding the turmoil this film created just this past weekend when Mohammad Bakri was nominated as the 2010 Filmmaker of Free Speech, to honour his art and film-making at the International Film Festival in Berlin. And finally, the movie Jenin from YouTube.
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