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Portrait of a People Under Seige.....AMAZING..!!! Moving...
After reading the Neo-con's critique of this BRILLIANT film I HAD to share my opinion of Bakri's work. With the world as witness to the IDF's military incursion into a CIVILIAN REFUGEE CAMP, which in itself breaks all known INTERNATIONAL LAW including the Geneva Convention Protocols as to treatment of civilians under military control, and against the Nuremberg Charter which was created as a result of the Nazi genocide, Israel's Sharon REFUSED to allow UN or ICRC (Red Cross) inspectors into the camp to view the damage, and when even former Israeli Minister Shimon Peres had a moment of lucidity and proclaimed Jenin a "MASSACRE" it was decried in Israel as being a lie. Mohammed Bakri, a Arab Israeli actor and film-maker went into the camp and captured for the audience not only pictures of the result, weeks after the IDF had bulldozed wreckage and bodies with their destruction, but the heart of his film is not either merely the damage or the "disappearance" of it, but the powerful interviews with long time residents of the camp who suffered losses, and terror but as we see, they did NOT lose their humanity....Bakri even manages to capture a "theater of the absurd" bit of humor with a street vendor of plastic flip flops, who uses one as a pretend telephone for passers-by who have a laugh at themselves along with the perpetrators of that violence by IDF. A MUST SEE!! I am an American and a Jew who no longer fears looking at the truth of the Zionist Occupation....and at the suffering of a people. Palestinians voices not only should be heard, they MUST be heard and their struggle against a racist apartheid on their own land must cease, and the treasure of US tax dollars which are used to oppress them must cease.! JENIN JENIN is one of the FEW bits of film that escaped Occupation. On 11 Nov the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the Censors and has "officially" given permission to publicly release this film. A MUST SEE!

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THE PRODUCER OF THIS FILM WAS ASSASINATED AFTER THE RELEASE
I really advice every1 in this world to watch it and see for yourself why THE PRODUCER OF THIS FILM WAS ASSASINATED BY THE ISRAELI ARMY RIGHT AFTER ITS RELEASE!

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Very Very Sad
I have read the various reviews and comments about this film.
IF this film was distributed as a work of Fiction having no connection with reality then I would not rate it at all. A work of fiction is not held to any standard of factual reliability so and it would have no connection with the real world. Each person chooses his or her own fantasy to enjoy.

Apparently this film pretends to make a record of what actually occurred. The incidents alleged to be addressed by this film have been carefully investigated by various International Organizations including the United Nations (no friend of Israel) and also by the United States, and Israel itself. Various other governments were seriously concerned with the allegations. These Official investigations and records are available and fully document what occurred. The Official investigations show beyond any question that Israel did not destroy the Town of Jenin and did not intentionally kill the civilians who might have been in the area of the battle. Israel did not cause the death of the people as alleged in the film and as alleged at other times by various propaganda.

SO the question is: what do the comments here about the film reveal. It reveals that many people are easily deceived and apparently not willing to actually read the investigations conducted over the allegations. IF you are not interested enough to find out the truth by reviewing the voluminous records and studies conducted by reputable and reliable organizations then why pretend that you care?

Someone who cares wants to learn the truth and not just watch a film or tv program. Reading takes a little work but it is a great reward. Are the viewers of this film just commenting on this Amazon site about how they liked this work of FICTION? This imaginary film?
OR do they actually believe that these things happened as the film pretends and fantasizes?

SO it is very, very, sad when people who apparently care so much about an allegation are not willing to make the effort to read the studies and reports about the incident but accept a film of fantasy as being reality. If this type of NON fact checking and intellectual dishonesty continues to pervade our American culture then we will be further distanced from reality and our judgments will become weak and ineffective. Nothing is more important than Truth and making the effort to find the Truth. One of the reasons why Peace is so hard to achieve in that area of the world is the way of life that the Truth is secondary to social feelings and needs. Peace cannot be achieved by falsehood. This film is just another stab at the Arab and Israeli people in that region by continuing to portray fantasy as reality. It is an insult to all viewers.
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