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No Other Land
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2024 · Film · documentary · 92 min
Directed by Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Basel Adra
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
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If you haven't watched No Other Land, you should: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5279398/oscar-documentary-no-other-land-review
Is that the same cooperation seen in the West Bank where Israel keeps sending settlers and make Palestine land smaller and smaller every single year?
I highly recommend to watch the Oscar winning movie “no other land”, for anyone that thinks that Israel would just let them leave in peace
EVERYBODY should always chose one's own children, no matter how many other people would die instead. This is the essence of human nature and it would be absurd to ask anything else to someone.
However, I don't believe this has nothing to do with zionism and/or israel.
In general most people I know generally agree on the sentiment that Jewish people should have some form of safe state.
Most disagreement actually arise from differences in the situation presented in the blog post :
- What are exactly "people like you" ? Trying to define a "people" is very different from "my children". Many consider the distinction is wildly arbitrary if you remove religious definitions..
- What should be the actual boundaries of the land an why is it not possible to live together ? In particular when settlers are killing people in the west bank, destroying their homes and displacing them, how is this not exactly the same situation in reverse (the argument of the blog is that israel is the ONLY land, and it is literally the argument of the film "no other land" about Palestine last year) ?
- For the most cynical, is the conflict and the security issues are being weaponized by right wing religious dudes, who don't really want peace but expand the land.
At the end of the day I don't think the Israel / Palestine conflict is really "special". Many groups have been fighting over land for reasons that didn't make sense at all some times (skin color / language spoken / size of skulls between african tribes ?!). This one lasts longer because of religion and that religion tend to last in time because they stick to the intemporal idea of god. Everybody want its own case to be special, but this type fighting is sadly 'classic' human nature.
The film could not find a U.S. distributor after being picked up for distribution in 24 countries and winning the Oscar, a situation that has been compared to soft censorship. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Other_Land
Trump always hated foreign movies - I remember him disparaging an Academy award winning movie purely because it was non-English language. Wonder what prompted this outburst - the success of Ne Zha 2 (china bad), or No Other Land (can't say Palestine)?
US citizens may not want to travel internationally because they don't trust US customs and border agents upon their return.
About 20 years ago a customs agent asked me, "are you thanking the lord Jesus Christ that you have returned safely to America". You just tell them what they wanted to hear and you were fine. Now if I am not mistaken, they can demand you unlock your phone which might show you were at a Tesla Takedown rally, or purchased a movie ticket to No Other Land, or whatever else is deemed verboten. I am unclear how long a citizen can be detained/delayed by a customs agent without cause.