Monday, September 19, 2005
For the past few years, one French(!) filmmaker has served as sort of the anti-Michael Moore, a one man Second Draft of history for the Middle East. In fact, footage from one of his productions is used in the Pallywood production. If you're not already familiar with the work of Pierre Rehov, I'd recommend seeking it out. Here is a link to the entry I wrote after seeing his film The Silent Exodus.
Here is a link to a review of his latest and an overview in New York Press: COMING NO TIME SOON
Last week he screened Hostages of Hatred at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on the Upper West Side. The film looks at how Arab states, the Palestinian elites and the United Nations have all been instrumental in keeping Palestinians festering in refugee camps since 1948.
It has been a mainstay of Arab propaganda since 1948 that the Jews kicked the Arabs out of Palestine. But Rehov presents Arab newspaper and magazine accounts from both before and after the war of 1948 documenting Arab leadership's many calls to Arab citizens of Palestine to get out before the impending war started.
Those citizens were assured that they would be able to return to their homes within two or three weeks, after the Jews had been defeated. It didn't play that way, of course, and unlike all the other refugees from wars of the 1940s, those who had fled have been kept in squalid, hatred–breeding refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Gaza for more than a half-century.
The UN oil-for-food scandal pales in comparison to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency which was set up ostensibly to serve the Palestinian people but which has more than anything else become a work program for 22,000 permanent UN workers...
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