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One of the best films on this subject
This is a truely excellent documentary -- it holds its own as an example of the documentary form, in addition to being one of the best films I have seen about the Middle East conflict. I was expecting an ordinary style documentary like the ones on BBC or PBS, with a scripted narration in the background explaining everything. Instead, this film tells the story through the voices of the characters. The camera moves around the Gaza Strip like some kind of wandering disembodied eye, looking over peoples' shoulders into their lives. Longley must be the Invisible Man to get the footage he has.

...If you're really interested in getting an inside view of Palestinian life in the Occupied Territories, this film is a powerful and essential addition to your collection. This film is a little hard to find on video, even though it's had great major media reviews including in the NYT / Village Voice / Variety and been shown all over, including in the Human Rights Watch traveling film festival, which is where I saw it. Glad to see Amazon has it.

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Great film
This documentary was a huge relief after watching so much useless Hollywood product. "Gaza Strip" is a real film about real people and real issues -- the best film I have seen about the Palestinians. Anyone looking for the inside track on what's happening in the Gaza Strip need look no farther!
Be warned: Some of material is too graphic for children.

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Watch the bitter truth - Thank you Mr. Longley
I would like to begin by thanking Mr.Longley for his efforts in making this much needed documentary.

This documentary is hard to watch as the inhumane conditions that the Palestinians live in under the Israeli occupation are very distrubing and painful. It's about time an issue like this is being addressd in vivid detail and it's time for people to deeply think why when you criticize Israel in any way, you're automatically labeled as Anti-Semite..could it be so that we don't pursue the painful truth further? we live in a world where "Democracy" and "Antisemiticism" are words used for political purposes and to hide the truth. I still can't believe Israel gets away with all this and we Americans give a big chunk of our taxes to further prolong the occupation, build more settlements against international law in Palestinian lands and make the already complex situation in the occupied etrrtories even worse for these poor people.
I stand ashamed and appauled at our ignorance to the outside world and our gullibility to the unbalanced and unfair news covering here in the U.S. Apparently censorship and biased news are embedded with us here at home and many don't realize it.