Shot in Lebanon in 1975 just before the civil war, director Johan van der Keuken delivers an account of the complexities surrounding the ‘Palestinian issue’, touching most vitally on the global interests, fluxes of oil, and explores the European origins of the troubles in Palestine.
Director: Johan van der Keuken. AKA The Palestinians
Composer: Willem Breuker.
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I watched only the first ten minutes, but that was sufficient to show that this film is mindless propaganda. Palestinians say that an Israeli patrol came and shot four men, and there is a lot of weeping and angry shouting. That’s it–we are simply asked to feel sympathy.. But WHY were these men shot? The filmmaker does not ask. The Palestinians do not say. For all we know, these four men may have been terrorists responsible for the deaths of many Israelis. The film clearly has no interest in facts or fairness, just in screaming and crying. That is an insult, not just to Israelis but to any viewer who cares for fairness and rational thought.
The Dutch documentary master Johan van der Keuken provides a sobering account of the conflict in his The Palestinians (De Palestijnen, 1975). Starting from the theoretical legitimacy of the Zionist project, its colonial implementation and, most crucially, economically opportunistic backing, the director delivers a nuanced account of the complexities surrounding the ‘Palestinian issue’, touching most vitally on the global interests and fluxes of oil, in whose name one people is displaced and persecuted while another is hypocritically ‘defended’.
As journalists too often avoid doing, Van der Keuken investigates the political and economic forces that at once shape a conflict, justify its injustices and ultimately warp its public perception. While righteously defending the idea of a Jewish state, a necessary retreat from the violence of European anti-semitism, the documentary carefully highlights its mercenary implications and the vile distortion of the Palestinian cause whose goal was and is not the annihilation of Jews (the latter being a primarily western Christian prerogative) but peaceful cohabitation on equal basis.
All this and a Willem Breuker soundtrack!
So glad a Zionist popped off in the comments to let us know who the real victims are. Without it, I may have had to think for myself. Churr brah.
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For the zionist who was asking “why were these men shot” and it’s basically reminds me of Refaat’s writing. Refaat Alareer was a Palestinian writer, poet, professor, and activist from the Gaza Strip. Alareer was born in Gaza City in 1979 during the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, and Israel killed him in December 2023.
“Early in my life, I learned one main thing about the Israeli occupation: the best course of action, whether or not you throw stones, is to run when you see soldiers, because who they target is largely arbitrary. Even if you go about your life in a peaceful way, minding your own business, if soldiers catch you, they will beat you up, or worse, arrest you. This is why Israel has killed a lot more civilians than freedom fighters.”
The Palestinians should be thankful to the Jews. Before Zionism they had not an inkling of the notion of self determination. They were just another irrelevant people contributing little to nothing to global society while living under Ottoman rule and absentee landlords in Egypt and elsewhere. Perversely, and luckily their oppressors are Jews which therefore assuages the guilt of two millennium of oppressing Jews by others who can now freely march in Western capitals chanting without irony the truly genocidal “From the River to Sea” while cosplaying in Keffayieh and other radical chic before going off to brunch. That said if the Palestinians were oppressed by other Arabs then the world would say boo. How do I know? From 1948 – 1967 Gaza was ruled by the Egyptians and the West Bank by Jordan and the Western World didn’t globalize the intifada. Wonder why.
Also why aren’t there marches and protest against Palestinians’ “Colonists”who live on stolen lands in Dearborn Michigan? Before European encounter, the area had been inhabited for thousands of years by successive First Nations peoples. Historical tribes belonged mostly to the Algonquian-language family, especially the Council of Three Fires, the Potawatomi and related peoples. .
I mean c’mon the Jews at least have some historic connection to what is now Israel/Palestine. Does Ahmed and Fatima really have any claim to what was the land of Pocahontas? Do they feel guilty being in a long list of colonists which dates all the way back to the beginning of migrant patterns? I am just looking for a little intellectual honesty from the privileged self righteous before you go off to brunch again.