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Here I present three more short clips illustrative of everyday life in Hebron before the Intifada. These clips document the general behavior of the settlers vis-a-vis the Arab population, the behavior of the IDF vis-a-vis the Arab population, and what the occupation IDF presence is all about, namely protecting a small group of extremely agressive religious zealots and terrorists imported from the USA. I filmed these sequences during the peace time in 1999 and 2000, before the Intifada broke out.
(Click on the images to view or download the videoclips)
 Celebrating Purim by stomping on Arabs 9 MB 2 min 29 sec .wmv clip |
Filmed 1999 -
This clip is
part of the film "Detained". A procession of squatters celebrating
Purim is shown in this clip. While the origins of the jewish Purim
festivity is related to celebrating the freeing of the Jewish people
from oppression by their enemies and is thus an occassion of great joy,
the Hebronite variant of the festivities takes the meaning of
celebrating the joys of the oppression of Palestinians by Jews. We see many costumes designed to humiliate Arabs, and some squatters demonstrate their hate for Arabs by stomping on one of the many dolls carried by the procession and which represent Palestinians in a derogatory way. In the Hebronite version of Purim, the dolls represent Palestinians as Haman, a courtier at the court of King Xerxes who conspired against Jews according to the Book of Esther in the Old Testament. This is not only a grave insult but an outright call to to genocide against Palestinians using religion as a justification. The story of the Purim festivity is told to Christians in the Book of Esther of the Old Testament. |
 IDF protects the squatters 4 MB 1 min 5 sec .wmv clip |
Filmed 1999 -
This clip is
part of the film "Detained". In this clip we see two short sequences
showing the IDF in their role as bodyguards for the illegal squatters,
and
not at all securing any legitimate security interests of the Israeli
Government. In order for the one settler and his son shown on the frame
left to walk through Hebron on Saturday morning, all the traffic has to
be stopped and a military escort must with him. |
 I'm going to kill all Arabs ! I'm going to kill Arafat ! 13 MB 3 min 29 sec .wmv clip -> |
Filmed 2000 -
In this clip
four sequences can be seen. First, Palestinians have to
remove
barbed wire left in the street by the IDF after lifting a curfew. Next
we see some Palestinians detained in an otherwise empty street by an
IDF patrol. In the next sequence we see another IDF patrol entering a
Palestinian house to check a roof they will expropriate. Note how one
soldier covers the rear even though there is no menace of any kind. In
the last sequence an IDF soldier in civil is seen shouting insults and
making obscene gestures. This apparently drunk person is a squatter
from one of the
illegal jewish settlements in Hebron. |
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