People and the Land: The Documentary Israel Tried to Block
Written by Haitham Sabbah on 16. September 2006, 2332hrs // Part of Haitham Sabbah's adventure in Human Rights, Israel, Media, Palestine, Video, Zionism // Other posts by Haitham Sabbah
“People and the Land” (PDF file) by Tom Hayes; a 24 page article about how hard this film was to make, how Israel sought to make it illegal doing all they could to prevent the film.
It was made in 1997, but the occupation is always the same. The story alone if you take time to read it is amazing. You’ll really like the scenes where the Israelis say how to take care of the “problem”. One American holds up a sign saying “transfer all the Arabs to Oklahoma where there’s oil” Isn’t that a good idea? One Israeli says “Take all the Arabs and put them in Arab countries and make one big Disneyland for them” One Israeli settler says, “As long as the Arabs are peaceful they can stay here”. and more.
This film is EXCELLENT and I didn’t see anything in it that would make it outdated except maybe some of the specific names. Realy, realy good. I don’t know if PBS finally showed it but at the time of the article above they would not. It talks about the American attempt to censor the making too. You know it’s good if so many “nice” people didn’t want it to be seen at the time. It’s really nice of the doc makers to let the IOF have their say on how fair things are (yeah right) and then show the atrocities. [Robin]
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September 17th, 2006 at 6:45 am
This video created a tear.
The US is wrong in supporting the Israelis.
They are now the terrorists!
Israel is now doing to the Palestinians worse than Hitler did to them. And the US lets them!
Now I know why my hair is falling out!
September 17th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
where can i get the full video from ?? is it for sale , i live in jordan and i really would love to have it .
September 17th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Mohammad,
The film is available for purchase here, Arab Film Distribution
http://www.arabfilm.com/item/178/ though I cannot tell where they are located.
It’s also availablbe for purchase online at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/People-Land-Tom-Hayes/dp/B0000A2ZTL
I’m not sure if Amazon ships worldwide but I would sure hope they do.
It’s also available here, at Americans for Mideast Understanding
along with many other videos http://www.ameu.org/videos.asp
If these sources don’t work for you perhaps there is an Arabic online site that sells videos in the Mideast which I cannot find because I don’t read or write Arabic. Hope you have good luck in being able to purchase it. Another thought, I don’t know how it works but if you have a cd burner maybe you can burn it onto a cd
from google where it was posted. For that , just google “Google videos” and type in the name and it will come up. Hope one of these options works for you.
September 17th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
from the area code of their tel, it looks like arabfilm.com is in seattle, washington, us
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June 17th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Geesuz, these people lie like they take a breath of air, so effortlessly.
“there is no censorship” “you can take pictures”, yet everywhere the IDF blocks, censors any reporting of their human rights violations, from discriminating road blocks that don’ excist, homes being demolished, towns forceably removed of Palestinian residents, so zionist can take control.
How criminal and inhumane acts are they suppose to except. HOW MANY?