Isobel Hadley-Kamptz: It doesn’t help to win an Oscar, like Palestinians you have no rights anyway
Hardly the Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers behind « No Other Land » had raised their Oscar statues for the best documentary of the year until revenge came: the day after the Film Gala came the settlers once againarmed and masked, to Massfer Yatta to harass the Palestinian residents.
That is the constant The violence and oppression on the West Bank as the film depicts, both from settlers and from the Israeli military. Soldiers tear apartments, pour cement into wells, cut off water pipes. At one point you see soldiers steal a family’s diesel generator and when a man protests they shoot him. He is paralyzed, but after the emergency care, he gets no care, and since his house is demolished, he is forced to live in a cave. He dies before the movie is done.
Soldiers on the West Bank River residential buildings, pour cement into wells, cut off water pipes.
One of the film’s Palestinian directors, Hamdan Ballal, was violently attacked by settlers on Monday evening. According to witnesses stood soldiers as so many times in the past passive for the abuse, but afterwards Ballal and two more Palestinians were arrested. On Tuesday afternoon he was releasedafter a night in military detention, where he told him he was also beaten by soldiers.
It « no other land » makes is to show how unbearably common this is, although the victims are usually not Oscar -winning. From 2019 to 2023, we must follow the distorted normality in the constant abuses. A house is demolished, women scream, a school is demolished, the children crying scary.
The military has a court decision to demolish the houses to use the Palestinians’ land for training. It is not clear in the film, but it has later been revealed that the original decisions from the 1970s on military training areas Actually acted About forcing Palestinians to be able to expand Jewish settlements.
The extreme settlement movement Nowadays sits in the Israeli government, and the Minister of Deputy Safety ITamar Ben Gvir boasts about how he made sure that more and more heavier weapons ended up in their hands. Since January, Israel has forced more than 40,000 Palestinians to flee from the Northern West Bank. Israeli politicians speak openly that they should never be allowed to return.
Not only Israel hates how « no other country » makes this oppression clear. In Florida, a mayor tries to evict a cinema that has shown the film and when it was praised a year ago at Berlin’s film festival it was accused of anti -Semitism. When Germany’s then Minister of Culture Claudia Roth was criticized for patting her hands for the film, she defended herself by just applauding Israeli director Yuval Abraham.
It clearly illustrates the different conditions. Just as Hamdan Ballal was arrested for being beaten.
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