Occupation 101 -The truth about Israel Palestine conflict

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Film Review: Occupation 101

This blanket excusal of violence introduces Occupation 101, a film designed to evoke sympathy for Palestinians and contempt for Israel, which is currently being promoted to schools, churches and activist groups. What follows is ninety minutes of indoctrination. Scenes of squalid refugee camps, Israeli soldiers confronting protesters, despairing Palestinian mothers and teary-eyed children serve as a backdrop to well-rehearsed indictments of the Jewish state by a who’s who of anti-Israel activists. Narrator Alison Weir and the producer/director team of Sufyan and Abdallah Omeish present a litany of anti-Zionist canards. The message throughout is that Palestinians are blameless victims while Israelis are entirely responsible for Palestinian violence.

False Linkage to Civil Rights Struggles

Occupation 101's worst offense is its twisting of the history and facts of the conflict in order to equate the Palestinian cause with celebrated civil rights struggles around the world. Viewers are led to see the situation of the Palestinians as parallel to black South Africans under apartheid or southern blacks during the civil rights era. To pull this off, a decade of unprecedented terrorism directed at Israelis in their homes, cafes, vehicles and religious festivals is made nearly invisible, severing the connection between Israeli measures — like house demolitions and sweeps through Palestinian villages — and the Palestinian attacks that precipitated them. This is essential to the film's portrayal of Israeli actions as colonialist aggression rather than as a response to terrorism. The hate indoctrination that permeates Arab society and produces cadres of young Palestinian suicide bombers groomed in hatred, intolerance and rejection of peaceful coexistence is swept under the carpet.

A succession of film clips depict oppression in Northern Ireland, in Algeria, against black civil rights marchers in America and South Africa. Images of Martin Luther King and words of righteous indignation by Nelson Mandela are juxtaposed with these scenes of violence. This culminates in footage of Israeli forces assaulting — without a hint of context — stone-throwing Palestinian protesters. The viewer is led to see the Palestinian cause as connected to a worldwide struggle for civil rights. But the viewer is being fed a lie, because the concept of equality and coexistence championed by civil rights leaders in South Africa and America is inconsistent with the Palestinian leaders' exhortations to violence.

The actual voices of many Palestinian leaders, as revealed by translations from Palestinian Media Watch and MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute), incite hatred and violence. For example:

"Because there are none who love the Jews on the face of the earth: not man, not rock, and not tree everything hates them...Everything wants vengeance on the Jews, on these pigs on the face of the earth," (Imam Sheik Ibrahim Madiras on Palestinian TV, Sept. 10, 2004, courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch.)

"We are waging a cruel war with the brothers of monkey and pigs." (Imam Mohammad Maadi on Palestinian TV, Sept. 12, 2004)

"The Jews are Jews...the Jews are a cancer that spreads inside the body of the Arabic and Islamic nation..." (Imam Sheik Ibrahim Madiras on Palestinian TV, Jan. 7, 2005)

Always remember that Apartheid South Africa and Israel were the closest allies, even exploding an atomic bomb together in 1979.

Always remember that Apartheid South Africa and Israel were the closest allies, even exploding an atomic bomb together in 1979.

They encouraged people to leave the Arab countries.

It's well-known that Israel engineered most of that. They encouraged people to leave the Arab countries. That's because they wanted the population transfer. They doubled their population overnight because of that. Most of the states in question were pro-West, like Morocco and Nuri al-Said's Iraq, Nuri who was in cahoots with the Zionists.

It's well-known that Israel engineered most of that.

Yes, the elders of Zion are - as always - pulling the strings.

What, you mean like the BNP would 'encourage' non-whites to leave the UK in the event of a BNP government?

Getting those people into Israel was an essential Israeli objective. After expelling 700,000 Arabs, they needed to double the Jewish population. Remember that in 1947, the area that became Israel had a significant Arab majority; more than 60%.

I didn't get a Valentine's Day card today. Perhaps I need to have a word with the Elders about that.

Remember, that was right around the time of the first Arab Israeli war where jewish homes in arab countries were burned and looted, jews were killed, their wives raped ect. by arabs in many surrounding Arab countries.

Yes, the elders of Zion are - as always - pulling the strings.