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Galway IPSC protests against the political show-trial of Mohamed Bakri, Director of Jenin Jenin
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 Sunday July 01, 2007 18:35 by TD - Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
"Only an unbelievably brutal world can look at the remains of what was once home for 13,000 impoverished 1948 Palestinian refugees ... and say 'we don't know what actually happened'" (Irit Katriel)
Following BBC and Democracy Now news reports that the Director of the internationally acclaimed and award winning documentary, Jenin Jenin, Mohamed Bakri, is being sued and facing possible jail time in a case brought this month in Israel by five Israeli soldiers who are accusing him of libelously portraying them and their comrades as war criminals in his film (the five are not shown or mentioned by name in Jenin Jenin). Galway IPSC, yesterday, outraged at this obscenity too far, took to the streets in protest.
 Initially banned in Israel until a reversal by the Israeli Supreme Court the film is dedicated to Lyad Samoudi, the producer, who returned home to Yamun after the shooting of the documentary was completed. On June 23, as Israeli forces besieged Yamun, Samoudi was shot and killed as he was leaving a military-closed area with three friends- in response to the ban, Mohamed Bakri said' I hope they will censor every film I do. I want them to understand my reality, another truth ..."
In 2002, in the course of its murderous assault on the West Bank, (Operation Defensive Shield) according to John Pilger in his book: Freedom Next Time, the Israeli army "attacked the refugee camp using fifty tanks, armoured bulldozers, helicopter gunships and F-16 fighter-bombers. Every day for a week, the F-16's had fired an average of 250 missiles against less than one square mile of shacks housing fifteen thousand people, half of them children". Twenty-three Israeli soldiers were killed by Palestinian fighters which "sent Sharon into a fury. Describing the defenders as 'terrorists,' he approved the demolition of the homes of four thousand people, some with the occupants inside". Amnesty International cited the case of Jamal Fayed, a 38 year old severly disabled man who his family "had shown [his] ID to the soldiers, who were preparing to demolish the house, to prove he was paralysed and could not get out of the home without their help. The soldiers refused to help and soon afterwards a bulldozer approached the house. The family yelled at the driver to stop. He didn't, and Jamal Fayed, still trapped inside, was killed. " According to Pilger; "Amnesty also described how two boys, aged six and twelve, were killed by Israeli tank fire as they went to buy sweets after the army had announced that the curfew had been lifted".
Then Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres told then UN Secretary- General, Kofi Annan that Israel would welcome a UN investigation into the atrocities, "Our hands are clean" and then, in cahoots with the yanks proceeded to scupper the team Annan had assembled for this task - after meeting senior US officials as the UN team prepared, Annan cancelled the investigation because of "the Israeli government's refusal to co-operate". That the atrocity had taken place outside Israel, in illegally occupied territory, was apparantly not a factor to supine, lap-dog, Annan. "It was the UN at its most craven, with Annan affirming his role as a placeman for the United States" (Pilger).
Tanya Reinhart, in her book Israel/Palestine says: "What is particularly frightening about the events of Jenin is how Israel managed to cover up its crimes, and silence protesting voices". but, what is more frightening, is the loathsome denial of the Jenin massacre and the virulent, in your face, striving for the moral high ground by the five IDF soldiers and the Israeli judicial system in countenancing this case, then again, an unbelievably brutal, pro-Zionist inverted and perverted world may agree that Bakri has indeed impugned the "Purity in Arms" IDF?.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11I do not agree with censorship / restrictions on the right to freedom of speech in any shape or form, including the making/screening of movies. But why do you people always single out Israel, but fail to talk about the restrictions most Islamic countries impose on film makers, authors and other artists???
Why did people criticize apartheid South Africa so much in the 1980s and not so much the many African states with human rights problems...
Firstly because South Africa like Isreal was a colonial racist state settled by Europeans and they no doubt felt a stronger moral responsibility to do something about it. Secondly well there were lots of cans of worms with the former colonial powers, USA and Soviets competing for influence and natural resources and supporting their favorite dictators to that end. A situation that continues today (minus the Soviets). John Le Carre's book 'The Constant Gardener' provides a disturbing insight into the disturbing role of multinational companies and western polticians in the African mess in more recent times.
A similar situation exists today in the mideast with Isreal versus its Arab neighbours.The situation there has now being going almost 60 years following Isreal's creation by the ethnic cleansing of its original inhabitants. Some of us feel a responsibility to speak out about it ... There's not a huge amount of point lecturing 'Islamic' countries while this travesty continues in their midst. And let's not forget when Iran was last moving towards democracy in the 1950s , the 'west' moved in and installed the Shah to stop it's attempted nationalisation of it's oil industry.
Thursday July 27th Teachers Club Parnell Square - Dublin
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Well done to our Galway friends. To protest against this outrageous attempt by the Israeli State to censor and silence Mohammed Bakri, the Dublin Group of the IPSC is organising a Public Screening of the movie. All welcome.
For a more balanced view on Israel and fraudulent territorial claims made by Palestinians check
Well, it didn't take long to suss out your agenda, Michael - from plaintively asking why people "single out" Israel, you now talk about the "fraudulent" claims of the Palestinians. And you've posted a delightful image urging people to "fight terrorism, support Israel!" on another thread. In other words, you believe that Israel has done nothing wrong and deserves our wholehearted support. So your original question was disingenuous - you don't object to people talking about Israeli human rights abuses without mentioning human rights abuses in other countries - you object to people talking about Israeli human rights abuses full stop, because you claim they don't exist. Not a view that will withstand much scrutiny, thanks not least to the painstaking work of Israeli activists who document the abuses of their state.
Yet another example of the bogus nature of the "why single out Israel?" argument - the people making that argument just want criticism of Israel to stop, they don't want balance, they want complicity. Any time you criticise one government anywhere in the world without criticising every other government at the same time, you can be accused of selectivity and "singling out". Following that logic would lead to total paralysis and passivity in the face of injustice - something the supporters of Israel would be very happy to see.
will try and make it to the teachers club
Thanks DM - we'll probably meet on Saturday and lets discuss this further.
Solidarity
Lines crossed above - the Jenin Jenin showing is Thursday July 26th and NOT 27th as indicated.
Michael Martin refers to Palestinian fraudulent territorial claims. Perhaps he can be more specific. Is he on the old ,disputed v Occupied argument.If that is the case he should look up Beit Zourik versus Israel: HCJ 2056/04 , where he will learn that the High Court of Israel refers to the Palestinian Territorities as "Held in belligerent Occupation". He might also look at the International Court of Justice opinion of July 2004. Http://www.icj.cij.org/icjwww/ipress.../ipresscom2004-2_summary_mwp_20040709.ht
It is clear that Israel and it,s apologists have zero tolerence for critism, but who can blame them. The truth is too unbearable.
Michael Martin's reference to fraudulent territorial claims on the part of the Palestinians is nothing but highly ironic. The fraudulent territorial claim to top them all is the claim that the great real-estate agent in the sky bestowed a prime piece of beach-side territory to a wandering tribe, a claim that was then used in 1948 as a justification to occupy Palestinian land to create a state that never before existed, a claim that has been used to justify the ethnic cleansing of that land, a claim that is still being used to justifying the continued immoral and illegal occupation of Palestine. The claim that the Holocaust necessitated the creation of this apartheid, supremacist state on territory stolen from others is an absolute nonsense given that the Zionist project was already well underway at the end of the 1800's.
Israel creates opportunities not ignored by many Gulf States and other Arab states as well. Its Arab citizens, though a somewhat troubled minority, enjoy much higher standards of living, education and medical attention than any other Arabs in their own world. Israel exists out of its right as a national group to self determination in the land in which it was formed and developed. Religious arguments for Israel's existence can be excluded from this discussion, but not its continuous claim to the Land. This claim is equivalent to Spain's 800 year reconquest project. Deny Israel's right to statehood and self determination brings about a denial of Spain's right to exist as we know her. Let us not forget: The Jewish Community in Palestine accepted the UN's partition plan of November 1947, whereas the Arab World (let alone the Palestinian Arabs) refused and invaded the fledgling state. This is a historically documented fact which admits no argument.