THE “WORLD”’S OPINION – MUST SEE
This documentary co-signed by Palestinians and Israelis on colonization in the West Bank recalls another, produced in 2013, on the same subject, by a tandem of the same miraculous nature. The film was called Five broken camerasit was co-signed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, and recounted how the State of Israel intended, thanks to the implementation of the separation wall, to separate the village of Bilin from its arable land, and offer it to a colony Jewish neighbor. The film evoked the five years of struggle, the five cameras broken by Emad by the Israeli military and the first five years of his son’s existence, at the end of which the Israeli High Court declared this route illegitimate.
No Other Land undoubtedly has neither the temporal architecture, nor the fierce poetry of Burnat and Davidi’s film, nor even more so its happy ending. It testifies, essentially, to the radicalization of an Israeli government now won over by an extreme right ideology, aligned on the use of force and on the refusal of dialogue, and which hastens as much as it can. advance of settlements in the West Bank. The film finally resonates with the tragedy – brought to an unprecedented level of cruelty since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, and the consequences thereof – of the mutual non-recognition which poisons the inhabitants of this land and the plunges into a seemingly endless misfortune.
Destroy and rebuild
Basel, a 28-year-old young man from Massafer Yatta, a Bedouin community in around twenty villages in the south of the West Bank, is the real “hero” of this film. Activist and son of an activist. Equipped with his camera, or testifying in front of the lens of Israeli operator Rachel Szor, he chronicles the resistance of local farmers, declared, since the 1980s, illegitimate on their land by the Hebrew state, which claims to install a military zone. Contrary to what happened in Bilin, the Israeli High Court finally authorized their expulsion in 2022.
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