00:00The scriptures come to life. Jacob and David tend their flocks and lead their simple lives.
00:08The film appears to show both communities working side by side,
00:12but a close inspection reveals that Arabs and Jews never appear in the same shot.
00:20Men and women, Arab and Jew, old and young, here is work for them all in raising oranges
00:27that grow sweeter and juicier in this favoured soil.
00:30So what is first viewing comes across as a fairly benign portrayal of a peaceful land
00:36with biblical associations is actually something quite sinister.
00:39From the perspective of the British authorities, it is clearly a propaganda film that's trying to
00:45demonstrate that they're in full control of their Palestine mandate.
00:48It's designed to try and convince consumers around the world that their product was
00:53untainted by association with the violence of the recent conflict.
00:56And so what we see is a total disregard of the realities of Palestine in 1939
01:03in the interest of promoting imperialism and the economy.
01:09so the
07:13And here
07:18If you ever've.
07:20gardens
07:22holds the supreme place in the world's reverence. To Jew, Christian and Mohammedan alike, it
07:27is the holy city.
07:33There are many Christian churches in old Jerusalem. Throughout the ages, these Christian shrines
07:38have attracted pilgrims from many lands, and so long as they endure, they will continue
07:42to be looked upon as the most sacred and holy in all the world. Within the gates of the
07:47old city stands the Wailing Wall, the only remaining part of the ancient temple. Here,
07:52Orthodox Jews congregate to lament the fall of Israel and to pray for its restoration.
07:58Their cries and their tears bear witness to their faith.
08:06When you look at the photographs and the pictures and the videos that come from there, and you
08:11hear the screams of people, screaming, as the Israeli government burned men, women and
08:18children alive. They burned them alive. And the world stands by while 15,000 children are
08:28being slaughtered. 35,000 men and women and children. And it's unbelievable, the genocide that's happened.
08:41A child with no hate. A child with no hate. A child with no hate. And the Israeli government
08:47say it's a mistake. A mistake. I hope that Benjamin Netanyahu burns in hell the same way them children
08:58and their families burned. I hope him and his generals and the fairy government in Israel that
09:05that when dear God finally brings him to the resting place, that he deserves to burn in hell.
09:12Because what is happening now? Not alone is it apartheid. Not alone is it atrocity in the war crime.
09:21It's just horrific. It's just horrific what they're doing. Where is their soul? Where is the soul of the Israeli
09:30people that allows their government to do this to children? Where is their humanity? The Israeli people,
09:38the Jewish people, after everything the Jewish people have suffered down over the decades that they
09:45were able to allow their government to do this to other human beings. Human beings. But in the eyes of
09:54Netanyahu and this fair right Israeli government, Palestinians are human beings. But today here,
10:02the Irish people say we recognize Palestine. We recognize that they are human beings just like
10:12every one of us. Shame on Israel. Shame on what they've done and will never be forgotten.
10:22Direct bombing, starvation, dehydration, disease. Alarming reports of the first cases of polio in
10:30Gaza right now. Polio is a potentially deadly disease that causes paralysis, including paralysis
10:36of the muscles needed to breathe. That has been eradicated for decades in that region. There's been
10:44a polio vaccination campaign that essentially has eradicated the disease from the majority of the
10:50world. And now we're seeing cases emerging in an area of the world that has a healthcare system that
10:58has been completely and entirely annihilated. I mentioned these wounded children with no surviving
11:05family. I'm going to give you two quick stories just so that you can humanize what I mean when I say
11:11this because I know it's really hard to hear these numbers and think about individuals and what this means
11:16to them. I received a young boy into the emergency department during one of the mass casualties who had
11:22half of his face and neck blown off. Luckily the organs that are vital for breathing and blood supply
11:30to the brain were preserved. They were visible but preserved and he was talking to us. He couldn't see
11:35himself so he didn't know what he looked like at that point in time and he kept asking for his sister.
11:40His sister was in the bed next to him. The majority of her body was burned beyond recognition.
11:46He didn't recognize that the girl in the bed next to him was his sister. His entire family, parents and
11:53the rest of his siblings were killed in the same attack. That boy survived and the next day I went
11:59to see him. A very young plastic surgeon, one of the few remaining plastic surgeons in Gaza because
12:05the others have either been killed or have fled understandably, had removed part of his chest and
12:13created a graft to cover those vital organs of the neck. He was lying in his bed and mumbling because
12:19it was so difficult to talk and he kept saying, I got really close to him and he said, I wish I had
12:25died too. And I said, what? And he said, I think my entire family has gone to heaven. It's not my entire
12:33family. His exact words were something effective. Everybody I love is now in heaven. I don't want to be
12:38here anymore. That is one of so many stories. I'm giving you, I'm so sorry, Leila, but I think people
12:45need to hear this. I'm giving you the story of one child. How could they talk about killing children?
12:51We're not advocating to target children, but forgive us if we don't give a if, you know, everybody there dies.
13:08Al-Nakbatu, the catastrophe is the ethnic cleansing of Philistinian Arabs through their violent displacement
13:21and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society
13:27and the suppression of their culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations.
13:34The term is used to describe the events of the 1948 Philistinian War in Il-Zamiyotun-Philistiniatun,
13:43as well as the ongoing persecution and displacement of Al-Philistiniana by Israel. As a whole,
13:52it covers the fracturing of Philistinian society and the long-running rejection of the right of return
13:59for Philistinian refugees and their descendants. During the foundational events of Al-Nakbatu,
14:06approximately half of Philistinian's predominantly Arab population, or around 750,000 people, were
14:14expelled from their homes or made to flee through various violent means. At first, by Sahunian
14:22paramilitaries and after the establishment of the Toledo Israel by its military, dozens of massacres
14:32targeting Philistinian Arabs and over 500 Arab-majority towns, villages, and urban neighborhoods were
14:39depopulated, with many of these being either completely destroyed or repopulated by Al-Yahudu and given new
14:47Al-Hebriety names. Israel employed biological warfare against Al-Philistiniana by poisoning village
14:57wells in a program codenamed Operation Cast Thy Bread. By the end of the war, 78 percent of the total land
15:07area of the former Philistinian Zamiyotun was controlled by Israel. The Philistinian national narrative
15:16views Al-Nakbatu as the collective trauma that defines their national identity and political
15:22aspirations. The Israeli national narrative views Al-Nakbatu as a component of the war of independence
15:31that established Israel's statehood and sovereignty, whilst negating or denying the atrocities
15:39of Israel's statehood of Israel's statehood of Israel's state of Israel's state of Israel's state,
15:44or that their expulsion was necessary and unavoidable. Al-Nakbatu denial has been increasingly
15:52challenged since the 1970s in Israeli society, particularly by the new historians, although the
16:01official narrative has not changed. Al-Philistiniana observed May 15th as Nakbatun Day commemorating
16:11the war's events one day after Israel's Independence Day. In 1967, following the Six-Day War, another series
16:22of the Philistinian Exodus occurred. This came to be known as Al-Nakbatu, the setback, and also has its
16:30own day, June 5th. Al-Nakbatu has greatly influenced Philistinian national identity, together with the
16:38political cartoon character Hanlalatun, the Philistinian Kapiatun, and the Philistinian 1948 Keys.
16:45Al-Nakbatu was a ten-year-old boy in 1948, 47-48, when the Nakba took place, when the Palestinians were
16:56expelled or fled or driven out from the territory that then became the state of Israel. That was the
17:03formative event in his life, and indeed for a whole generation of Palestinians. It was the defining
17:10experience for him, and Hansala was stuck at that point, and Najil Ali explained that it was abnormal
17:20for people to be taken away from, driven out of their homeland, and Hansala would never grow up. He'd
17:28never be older than 10, because that was fixed in his mind and in historical memory as the moment of
17:36disaster. So this cartoon figure, this little boy, became the symbol of that experience, both for
17:43Najil Ali himself and the people whose aspirations he very much came to represent in his drawings. And
17:53Najil Ali explained, he was often asked about this, why was Handala's face not visible? And his answer
18:00was again, that he was looking back, looking to that lost homeland, and he wouldn't turn round, his face
18:08wouldn't be visible, until he was reunited with that homeland.
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