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| 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is a deeply personal, first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel, the film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy Davidi, an Israeli filmmaker. Structured in chapters around the destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of village upheaval. As the years pass in front of the camera, we witness Gibreel grow from a newborn baby into a young boy who observes the world unfolding around him with the astute powers of perception that only children possess. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify and lives are lost in this cinematic diary and unparalleled record of life in the West Bank. 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is a Palestinian-Israeli-French co-production. A Kino Lorber Release. |
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2013/0223/Israeli-Oscar-contenders-force-citizens-to-confront-uncomfortable-questions?nav=87-frontpage-entryNineItem
Dear Editor,
A Palestinian puts his life on the line to film his family's perspective in a Palestinian village- and you call that an Israeli film because some of the funds for that movie might have come from "indirect government funding through subsidies to the Israeli film industry". Using that yardstick 5 Broken Cameras really should be categorized as an American film as taxpayers as well as charities here generously fund the Israeli state- as well as aid for Palestine.
If peace negotiations fail and the two state paradigm is scrapped referring to 5 Broken Cameras as Israeli will be the only option... but we are not there yet.
A fully secular two state solution to actually end the occupation AND the Israel-Palestine conflict really is the best way forward. It is also the only way to curb the rampant religious extremism, bigotry, chaos and cruelty that is being created by the Israel-Palestine conflict. Religion should be a personal private matter, not a state funded mandate.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
The European Union Renews its Support to Improve Mental Health Services in Gaza
Jordanian Diplomat Marwan Muasher (his country’s first ambassador to Israel, where he made many friends) points out the importance of The Arab Peace Initiative... & the fact that Obama Should Try to Help Solve Conflict
Poll: Large Majority of Palestinians Want Immediate Elections
American Task Force on Palestine Celebrates 10th Anniversary, Announces Oct. 23 Gala
Statement of the General Delegation of the PLO on Qisra Village Attacks & Statement on Commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat to meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday
Palestinian children and teachers at Qurtuba school in Hebron say getting to class past Israeli soldiers and settlers is like navigating a minefield every day.
In photos: Palestinian children growing up under the shadow of expulsion & the threat of more Israeli firing zones
Israeli Soldiers Order Bethlehem Villagers To Leave Their Lands
"The Israeli occupation has lasted too long. Hollywood gets it; Washington should too." Palestine's Maen Rashid Areikat... The U.S. must push to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not just manage it.
Outcry over Israeli soldier's photo of boy in crosshairs: "Every Palestinian mother is concerned for her child ..." How long can this charade continue to function politically?
Israeli settlers pump sewage into ancient Palestinian village
Economist: An Arab village is asked to bow to the wishes of Israel's Jewish settlers
RAJA SHEHADEH: More Than a Land Grab ...Settlers increasingly impinging on Palestinian lives: Jewish settlers aren't just taking empty space, they're destroying Palestinian property and threatening their lives.
"I have no memory of a time without struggle" Emad Burnat is a Palestinian farmer and director of the Oscar-nominated documentary "5 Broken Cameras"... "As the world listens, Gibreel, I want to say to you: I am from Palestine. I have lived my whole life under military occupation, and I have no memory of a time without struggle. But you, son, you will know better times. Someday, you will make new, happy memories.... And that will be the true award."
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".... it being clearly understood that nothing
shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious
rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine..."
The Office of International Religious Freedom ( http://www.state.gov/j/drl/irf/) Given the U.S. commitment to religious freedom, and to the international covenants that guarantee it as the inalienable right of every human being, the United States seeks to:
Promote freedom of religion and conscience throughout the world as a fundamental human right and as a source of stability for all countriesPalestinian Refugees(1948-NOW) refused their right to return... and their right to live in peace free from religious bigotry and injustice.
The Golden Rule... Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In
small places, close to home - so close and so small that
they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they
are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood
he lives in; the school or college he attends; the
factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the
places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal
justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without
discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there,
they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted
citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall
look in vain for progress in the larger world."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Empowering
Peace & Palestine
"The only way to honor our tragic histories is to create a future for our children free of man-made tragedy. This means making peace fully, completely and without reservation, between Israel and Palestine."
The Arab Peace Initiative
"The only way to honor our tragic histories is to create a future for our children free of man-made tragedy. This means making peace fully, completely and without reservation, between Israel and Palestine."
The Arab Peace Initiative
Palestinian
refugees must be given the option to exercise their
right of return (as well as receive compensation for
their losses arising from their dispossession and
displacement) though refugees may prefer other options
such as: (i) resettlement in third countries, (ii)
resettlement in a newly independent Palestine (even
though they originate from that part of Palestine which
became Israel) or (iii) normalization of their legal
status in the host country where they currently reside.
What is important is that individual refugees decide for
themselves which option they prefer – a decision must
not be imposed upon them.
UN Resolution 194 from 1948 : The refugees wishing to
return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours
should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date,
and that compensation should be paid for the property of those
choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property
which, under principles of international law or in equity,
should be made good by the Governments or authorities
responsible.
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