Documentary Description
n 1977, the award-winning journalist and film-maker, John Pilger,
made a documentary called Palestine Is Still The Issue. He told how
almost a million Palestinians had been forced off their land in 1948,
and again in 1967.
In this in-depth documentary, he has returned to the West Bank of
the Jordan and Gaza, and to Israel, to ask why the Palestinians, whose
right of return was affirmed by the United Nations more than half a
century ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo — refugees in their
own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation in
modern times.
In this in-depth documentary, he has returned to the West Bank of
the Jordan and Gaza, and to Israel, to ask why the Palestinians, whose
right of return was affirmed by the United Nations more than half a
century ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo — refugees in their
own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation in
modern times.
In a series of extraordinary interviews with both Palestinians and
Israelis, John Pilger weaves together the issue of Palestine. He speaks
to the families of suicide bombers and their victims; he sees the
humiliation of Palestinians imposed on them at myriad checkpoints and
with a permit system not dissimilar to apartheid South Africa’s
infamous pass laws. He goes into the refugee camps and meets children
who, he says, “no longer dream like other children, or if they do, it
is about death.” Continually asking for the solution, John Pilger says
it is time to bring justice, as well as peace, to Palestine.
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