The Zionist Story
“The Zionist Story”, an independent documentary released in February 2009, written, edited, produced and directed by “Berek Joselewicz” (Ronen Berelovich), presents:
… not just the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but also the core reason for it: the Zionist ideology, its goals (past and present) and its firm grip not only on Israeli society, but also, increasingly, on the perception of Middle East issues in Western democracies.
These concepts have already been demonstrated in the excellent ‘Ocupation 101′ documentary made by Abdallah Omeish and Sufyan Omeish, but in my documentary I approach the subject from the perspective of an Israeli, ex-reserve soldier and someone who has spent his entire life in the shadow of Zionism.
Watch the whole film (1hr 15min) or see it in parts (below):
Promises (2001), an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary film that looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspectives of seven children living in the Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Israeli neighborhoods of Jerusalem.
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Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to return to our homeland. Why do people believe that Arabs should rule over the Jewish homeland? This Web site is filled with evil Communist and Islamofascist propaganda.
The ‘Jewish homeland’ was once a (relatively) peaceful place where Jews, Muslims and Christians all lived among one another. The Ottoman Turks were responsible for forcing out both the Jews and the Christians, the Palestinians were not responsible for that. The website gives it’s own views, how about providing your own instead of launching an attack and a pointless tirade about communism and Islamofascism, which btw, isn’t actually a word unless you include a hyphen and create a compound word phrase. I welcome intelligent discourse on this subject. I also included my Christian given name to my post as I do not believe in hiding my identity behind phrases and jingoistic word jumbles.
lol, really? “evil” communist and islamofascist propaganda? who are you, the ghost of mccarthy? What about all the acts of terrorism committed in the name of Zionism to found Israel?
Thank you Paul Woodward for your work creating this public site, posting films and other sources of information that can help us better understand what is happening to other people, such as the people living in Palestine. Revealing their actual experiences, as well as the experiences of Jews brave enough to confront their own people about the horrifying treatment of people in Palestine, is an important step toward real, if painful, social change.
And thanks to Matthew Watson for an incredibly calm, well reasoned response to the ‘Zionist and Proud’ reply. Hopefully the person was passing through, looking to get a rise out of others to build his or her own self-esteem, and not actually attempting to promote hate on a broader social scale. You both give me hope for a better world.
Israeli’s are an invented people.
The jews can return to their homeland without getting 8 million dollars per day from the united states. Racial cleansing is a crime against humanity and the systematic killing of semitic people, namely the palestinians, is a war crime. These types of actions were rightfully criticized when nazi germany did them. But the new nazi’s, the nationalist zionist party, like hitler’s nazi’s, feet that they are above the law. American soldiers should not be put at risk because, like the nazi’s, some jews think that they are god’s chosen.
Most intelligent people who read and understand history, know how we have arrived at this juncture. The past is past, let it remain there. What is important, is what are we going to do about the unending hatred and conflict from both Muslim and Jewish sides? Much of this conflict is fanned and nutured by outside forces, who are making fortunes from the misery of the people in the holy land.
If the people living in the holy land truly think the land is indeed “holy”, then they all should sanctify it, obey Gods laws and know there is one God, no matter what name you give him or how your worship. To please God and to sanctify the land, is to follow Gods laws, which prohibit hate and violence to fellow men.
I beg to differ with Edward on three points: the past is past, the use of the word “conflict,” and that the occupation (and its attending apartheid and human rights abuses) is fueled primarily by outside forces. The present does not exist without a past. To remove it from that context is to destroy and/or deny the history that created it – something no historian would do. If we are ever to understand, and justly resolve the present situation, we must also understand its antecedents.
I object to the use of the word “conflict” because it dilutes a situation in which there is a clear oppressor and a clear oppressed. I wonder if my fellow Jews would want the Holocaust to be described as a “conflict?” Or that the black South African resistance against the Afrikaaner’s system of apartheid was merely a “conflict.”
Finally, as to his assertion that the “conflict” is fueled from the outside, I can only assume that he has never been to the West Bank and lived and worked among among the Palestinians. Had he seen the atrocities with his own eyes: watched male children & young men stripped, humiliated, and beaten at checkpoints; women in the midst of giving birth denied passage through the checkpoints; houses demolished on the flimsiest of excuses and people dispossessed only because they are on land coveted by Israel; children arrested in the middle of the night, thrown into prison, beaten and often tortured; young people shot dead for no reason (read Chris Hedges reports from Gaza for a small taste); the wall and how it separates farmers from their lands, schoolchildren from their schools; the water that is withheld from Palestinians while Israeli settlers have swimming pools and no lack of water, etc. – if he had seen these atrocities committed day in and day out, perhaps he would know that Israel has no need of “outside” assistance – it’s doing a knock-up job all by itself.
How are they the ” chosen people, ” if they’ve been kicked out and have created so much hatred over the centuries? There has to be a middle ground and peace in the region we want a peaceful United States. I do not feel safe here anymore.
I think God is either very crazy or sleeping because there is so much trouble in the world today. But it was already prophesied long ago that Israel will suffer wars but eventually win against its enemies.