Nidokidos: [nidokidos] PALESTINE IS STILL THE ISSUE

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

[nidokidos] PALESTINE IS STILL THE ISSUE

PALESTINE

IS STILL THE ISSUE

a video documentary.........

John Pilger returns to the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza where, in 1974, he filmed a documentary with the same title about the same issues, a nation of people - the Palestinians - forced off their land and later subjected to a military occupation by Israel. This was an occupation condemned by the United Nations and almost every country in the world, including Britain. But Israel is backed by a very powerful friend, the United States. Pilger finds that 25 years later the basic problems remain unchanged: a desperate, destitute people whose homeland is illegally occupied by the world's fourth biggest military power. What has changed is that the Palestinians have fought back. Stateless and humiliated for so long, they've risen up against Israel's huge military machine, although they themselves have no arms, no tanks, no American planes and gun ships or missiles.

He hears extraordinary stories from Palestinians, though most of his interviews are with Israelis whose voices are seldom heard, including the remarkable witness of a man who lost his daughter in a suicide bombing. But for Palestinians, the overriding, routine terror, day after day, has been the ruthless control of almost every aspect of their lives, as if they live in an open prison. This film is about the Palestinians and a group of courageous Israelis united in the oldest human struggle - to be free.

Pilger discusses a very taboo subject in the states, the Israeli/Palestinian struggle from a perspective of the Palestinian people. Once again John Pilger has brought us scenes that are hard to find in other places.

Click here to watch full length film

http://www.nidokidos.org/palestine-is-still-the-issue-t29070.html

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