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Movie Review: Riveting
Summary: 5 Stars
Interesting Children's analysis of the Israeli/Palestinian crisis. My 10th grade students begged to see this film and were enthralled through every minute. An excellent film to teach point of view.Movie Review: Great Film about Israeli-Palestine Issue
Summary: 5 Stars
I highly recommend this film. It is a good teaching tool. I teach in US and in Israel with Jewish and Arab students. Everyone should see, discuss and contemplate this film.Movie Review: Oh my god
Summary: 5 Stars
The most touching film i have ever seen. Im not one to type alot and im not a very political or highly educated guy but i was moved to tears by this movie.... GET THIS FILMMovie Review: Thoughtful and moving
Summary: 5 Stars
Even though this is not a current film, its message is clear and moving and the additional web sites offer strong historical background.Movie Review: Informative, depressing, and only a bit biased
Summary: 4 Stars
If anything, this movie left me even more pessimistic for the future of a possible Palestinian state. While the children talk incessantly of building a new Palestinian home, they also carry the expectations of returning to their former homes in Israel, seemingly oblivious that the creation of a Palestinian homeland involves living in it, not Israel.
Much of the later dialog of the Palestinian children in the movie centers around their unshakable attachment towards their aggrieved status as disenfranchised refugees. They convey little sense of desire to move on towards a new future in a separate Palestinian state, and to accept that they must bury the keys to the homes that once belonged to their grandparents on what is now, and will almost certainly remain, Israeli soil.
The movie would also have been more accurate -- even if less powerful -- had the narrator touched on the extent to which other Arab nations created the Palestinian refugee problem, rather than presenting it as a strictly Jewish vs. Arabic conflict.
While the film discusses the creation of refugee camps from Arabs fleeing Israel in 1948, it never mentions the equal number of Jews who were made refugees (with their property confiscated) by Arab nations in retribution --- or how their fellow Jews sacrificed to bring them new homes, job training, and to move on to a new life -- whereas the Arab nations built refugee camps for their displaced brethren.
In that light, the implied argument of the filmmakers that the Arab refugee problem was created by the Jews does not especially hold weight.
Furthermore, at no point does it mention that the Palestine existing prior to the creation of Israel was, in fact, instead occupied by the Turks, and after that, the British. Instead, it deceptively leads the viewer to believe that Israel built its nation on the back of some sort of formerly existing Palestinian nation.
This is still a powerful film. Be sure to watch the bonus material on the DVD, recorded years later.