Holy Land Grab
June 26th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
A Palestinian family sitting by the remains of their home in East Jerusalem.
In a must-see two part documentary found below Jacky Rowland of Al Jazeera takes us on an important journey through Jerusalem where she interviews everyone from Zionist fundamentalists, settlers and pro-peace activists, to Palestinian shopkeepers, Israeli-conspirators and regular residents. Rowland attempts to reveal some of the most disturbing elements of the Israeli government’s ongoing efforts to restructure the city into Israel’s “eternal, undivided capital” at the expense of all its non-Zionist residents.
At 6:12 of Part I we watch as a settler tries to intimidate an old Palestinian woman by openly telling her that she and her and her family are also going to be forced from their land through the same demolitions and forced evictions that succeeded in getting rid of her neighbors.
Take note of the dialogue:
Palestinian Woman: “You were here before, right?”
Israeli Settler: “Yes”
PW: “Why are you bringing them here?”
IS: “I came to have a look.”
PW: “To have a look at what?”
IS: “To see my land.”
PW: “Is this your land?”
IS: “Yes, this is my land.”
PW: “You took Jaffa, Haifa and Acre and you want to take this land here?”
IS: “Yes.”
She goes on to say: “They took the other lands and built the separation wall and now they want to take the lands behind the wall.”
