Beirut to Bosnia: Muslims and the West Tape 2 - The Road to Palestine-Parts One, Two and Three

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Box 329, Video-cassette ME144, Box 346, Video-cassette ME144

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NTSC VHS [TRT:0:51:00] (2 copies)

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1. Producer: A Chameleon/Barraclough Carey. Production for Channer Four and Discovery Channel
2. Original Credits: Written and Presented by Robert Fisk. Producer Dennis Walsh. Director Michael Dutfield. Archive: NBC, BBC, INA
3. A personal journey by Robert Fisk of the Independent.
4. The film documents the exile from Palestine of Muslims by the Israelis both during 1948 and 1967. Palestinians are forced to live in Lebanon, refugees from the creation of Israel in 1948. Palestinians who belong to Hamas who are forced to live in the boundary between Lebanon and Israel. They were exiled from the West Bank and Gaza and created a small Islamic republic in the mountains of southern Lebanon. They feel bitter anger the west and Israel. Fisk interviews Hamas fighters who talk about reasons for fighting. Fisk travels from Beirut to Palestine through Cyprus and then travels to Gaza from Jerusalem to witness first hand the Kafkaesque labyrinth of travelling from Beirut to Palestine in the days before the hand over of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority headed by Yasser Arafat. He describes the desolation of the situation in Gaza. He also films the direct actions of the Israeli army as they occupy and enforce curfews in Gaza. He also documents the destruction of Palestinian homes by the Israelis and the military occupation that is a routine part of daily life in Palestine. In the second part he documents the role of Hamas in aiding the people in Gaza, particularly those who were killed by Hamas for collaborating with the Israelis. Interviews Hamas members in Gaza about whether the struggle is a national struggle or a struggle for God, an Islamic struggle, says it's a war between religions not a war between nations. A Hamas gunman is killed in Gaza and then destroyed all the surrounding Palestinian homes in random violence. Part three continues with a report about a Jewish settlement in the heart of Arab land in Gaza and interviews with Jewish settlers. Continues with the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem by Israel and the huge Jewish settlement cities built on Palestinian land. Documents a Palestinian family who is clinging to their orchard in the shadow of Israeli settlements and orders to give up their land by the Israeli state. Includes footage of bulldozers plowing up the land for settlements right next to the land of the Khatibs, who are attempting to stay on their land. Lawyer details case that the family is trying to make and the reply of the Israelis that the land is to be used by Jews and Jews only, you are not a member of the public that this land is to serve. The next part follows Fisk's journey to Acre where he finds the home of the Palestinian exiled in Lebanon. He goes to the home and finds an Israelis living there who moved in two years after he was forced into exile and was unable to return. Fisk then travels to Poland and the town where this Israeli was originally from and then to the Treblinka concentration camp where his mother was killed.

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