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Here are some videos from People And the Land - made by Tom Hayes.
This documentary was filmed between the late 80's to early 90's and was released to PBS stations in '97.
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19 yr-old Imad's funeral - 3.07 mb
"In Islam, as in Judaism, it is customary to bury the dead
the same day they die, and martyrs are buried in the clothing
they were wearing when they were killed. The Israeli Army, in
its role of harasser of things non-Jewish, regularly confiscates
the bodies of martyrs for a few days and performs unauthorized
autopsies to prevent the observance of this religious custom.
There was a feeling I couldn't shake at that funeral that made
me recall tales I had heard of slave funerals in the old South.
Imad was free at last, safe beyond the oppressors' long reach.
Then we heard automatic weapons fire from the direction of the
cemetery. Usually you hear a burst or two, then it's over. This
shooting didn't stop. The Army had come to seize Imad's body.
I loaded audiotape into the deck and started recording. As I was
trying to describe the sounds coming from the distance, I couldn't
shake the image of Imad's mother, sitting under that tree, all those
other Palestinian mothers gathered around her. Even in death, Imad
was pursued. Even in her grief, his mother endured another assault.
What kind of people shoot into crowds at a funeral? What manner of
human being? Murdering Imad wasn't satisfying enough? They had to
terrorize his family and friends during the funeral?
The unarmed crowd succeeded in holding off the soldiers long enough
for Imad to be buried. Another boy, 13, died as a result of chest
wounds incurred in the attack. More than a dozen Palestinians were
seriously wounded.
Tell me those fairy tales of "Israeli democracy." I'll be looking
at you like you just escaped from a mental hospital. Tell me about
that shining city on the hill." - Tom Hayes
Video 1 - Open fire policy when soldiers' lives are not being threatened as told by an Israeli - 920 k
Video 2 - 'I just wish I could see my brother' - 454 k
Video 3 - US aid to Israel in perspective - 919 k
Video 4 - Human rights situation and military occupation
as told by a Palestinian and an Israeli. - 578 k
Video 5 - school closings increase targets out on street - 627 k
Video 6 - disabled Palestinian children - 1.12 mb
Video 7 - Palestinian refugee from 1948 - 437 k
Video 8 - Abandoned buildings from '48 and present day refugee camps - 1.4 mb
Video 9 - Palestinian Christians blocked from Holy City - 593 k
Video 10 - Churches and Christian schools blocked off/closed - 313 k
Video 11 - About the settlements - 325 k
Video 12 - American settler - 1.28 mb
Video 13 - Russian settler - 399 k
Video 14 - Blatant racism by an Israeli - 137 k
Video 15 - More racism from American Israeli with Brooklyn accent.