Topic palestine
Palestine Is Still The Issue
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John Pilger returns to the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza where, in 1974, he filmed a documentary with the same title -- Palestine Is Still The Issue -- a film about the same issues, a nation of people, the Palestinians, forced off their land and subjected to military occupation by Israel. Pilger 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 fight to be free...
Peace, Propaganda and The Promised Land
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By providing a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, Peace, Propaganda and The Promised Land zeros in on how structural distortions in U.S. media coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how, through the use of language, framing and the context of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media...
Occupation 101
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Occupation 101: Voice of the Silenced Majority details life in the West Bank and Gaza Strip under Israeli military rule. Examining events from the rise of Zionism to the Second Intifada and Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, as well as the role of the United States in the conflict, Occupation 101 gives voice to many American and Israeli scholars, religious leaders, humanitarian workers, and NGO representatives -- more than half of whom are Jewish -- who are critical of the injustices and human rights abuses stemming from Israeli policy in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza...