Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Week 11
Last week I watched a video about an Palestinian Massacre by Israeli militia. The documentary is about the few Israeli families who can give a close an accurate account to what happened at Deir Yassin. As the battle began early in the morning many Israeli woman and children had to flee for their lives out of the village. From watching the video, the attack seemed to be an extremely violent and well thought out systematic murder of the Israeli solely because they were not Jewish. The video really gives a close and personal account of the massacre from survivors and witnesses of the execution of hundreds of people. The website only gives on side of the struggle between the Palestinians and Israeli people, however subject to the issue and content of the website I feel the website obviously is done in this way to really express peoples sorrow for what happened. Awareness of the atrocities from both the Palestinians and Israeli need to be publicized and analyzed so that they will stop fighting. After watching To Live and Die in Jerusalem and now watching Deir Yassin Remembered, I feel that this war is utterly pointless between the two. Its been realized through history that it takes time for divided cultures to co-exist, but someone needs to break this barrier and personal hatred for one another and unite as humans living together. The problem is recognition of crimes committed against one another. Its as simple as two kids in a fight where one simple needs to apologize for his companion to quickly forgive him with loving arms.
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This seems like a very interesting video and seems to give a good idea of what these people actually go through everyday. Videos like these are what people should see everyday so they begin to cherish life and see how short it can actually be. These crimes are non-excusable but, they are trying to prove a point and are trying to acquire land in which they think they deserve. This is a problem which may never be solved because there is so much history and so many things affect the outcome
ReplyDeleteThis was a veru interesting video and it have me much feedback. I feel that both of these groups need to come up with a compromise so they can help themselves and their societies. With a compromise they will be saving all the young women and children.
ReplyDeletei like your comments on the video. it is true, the media should see it from both points of view and express what is really going on rather than manipulating stories and footage of what is occuring to accomplish their means. These atrosities are terrible and it is sad to see that they keep reoccuring in our history, from the accounts Prof Metcalf read to the genocide in Rwanda and now today in Darfur; People fighting people because they cannot overcome their differences and disputes.
ReplyDeleteThe video is useful in understanding the perspective of the Palestinians but as Dr. Metcalf pointed out it is very one sided and has to be understood as an attempt to get sympathy for their specific message. Don't get me wrong, I think the atrocities need to be remembered and things like this give faces to the violence. We can use things like this to understand personal memory of events and question public opinion and flesh out historical fact, and understand the conflict on a local level.
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