US President Harry Truman (1945-1953) stands next to a map showing the State of Palestine. Israel is not real.
oooooo
Zaborrak segitzen du hedatzen… eta krudelkeriak, eta negozioak kolonialismoa eta armagintza direla medio, gehi ignorantziak, … eta …
Since 2022, the UK has handed £12 billion to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, 4.3 Million British kids, that’s 30% of all British children, are living in Poverty
Also, 22% of UK households reported skipping meals, going hungry, or not eating for a whole day in January Cruel Britania
“They shøt my mom in her stomach, she was pregnant”
In the future you will ask why he wants to resist…
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1808259101182644356
oooooo
Wow, many of the foremost US international relations scholars – including Harvard’s Stephen Walt, George Beebe (former director of CIA’s Russia analysis) and John Mearsheimer – have signed this open letter begging NATO not to move Ukraine toward membership.
They warn it could “result [in] a direct NATO-Russia war or the unraveling of NATO itself”, and that therefore “admitting Ukraine would reduce the security of the United States and NATO Allies, at considerable risk to all.”
That’s the link to the letter (and the list of signatories): https://politico.com/f/?id=00000190
Aipamena
Stephen Wertheim@stephenwertheim
uzt. 3
NATO should not move Ukraine closer toward membership in the alliance.
Ahead of next week’s summit, read the open letter I’ve signed along with 60 colleagues, representing a broad spectrum of foreign policy experts, published in @politico.
https://politico.com/f/?id=00000190-7a1f-db0b-a39e-fa5fbcdb0000
BREAKING Israel announces the largest land grab of 13 square kilometers in the West Bank in decades, Palestinians will be expelled from their homes – AP
oooooo
Concerned Citizen@BGatesIsaPyscho
Still think The New World Order or One World Government is just a conspiracy?
Listen to Malaysia Former Prime Minister explain…
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1808802832025350304
oooooo
Ambassador Bridget A. Brink
@USAmbKyiv
Yesterday, the U.S. announced a significant assistance package of air defense interceptors for PATRIOT and NASAMS systems worth $2.2 billion to enable Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s unrelenting attacks.
We also announced a $150 mil package of additional weapons and equipment authorized under a Presidential Drawdown Authority to help Ukraine reinforce its front line and defend its skies. https://defense.gov/News/Releases/
oooooo
erabiltzaileari erantzuten
Bridget,
It would be really helpful if you could tell us how many Ukrainians will die because of the aid package.
How many orphans will be created?
How many lives displaced?
Does the aid package fund funerals?
Orphanages? Refugee centers?
And you call yourself a friend of Ukraine…
oooooo
Israeli occupation forces brutally assaulted a Palestinian girl..
Did you see how he pushed her!?
WESTERN MEDIA WON’T SHOW YOU THIS….
Bideoa:https://x.com/i/status/1808870884024930324
oooooo
Roger Waters… “I’m prepared to admit I’m in tears every morning over Gaza, because I’m only 80 years old… and I have never witnessed the genocide of a whole people in front of my eyes”…
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1808360847959601576
oooooo
Double Down News@DoubleDownNews
“The Israel Lobby is real and coming to a Parliament near you”
@Lowkey0nline EXPOSES the Israel Lobby in Keir Starmer’s Labour Party
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1808870137212162358
oooooo
Zionism must be destroyed. The ideology of Zionism is a perverted, irreligious view and its aim is to introduce a nationalist belief instead of destroying Judaism.
Zionism is never Judaism.
There is no Zionism in the Jewish faith. We pray for the immediate disintegration of
We pray for the immediate disintegration of Israel, the fake state established by the Zionists. Judaism does not need a state.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1808753805594419215
oooooo
Baina tartean, nolabait, iluntasunaren erditik argia azaltzen da…
Modern Monetary Theory: Bill and Warren’s Excellent Adventure, https://youtu.be/uKbrLvBw0WE?si=rhLZdIdXb5cHQiXs
Honen bidez:
Modern Monetary Theory: Bill and Warren’s Excellent Adventure – Promo
(https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=61843)
- July 5, 2024
Here is a short video about our new book – Modern Monetary Theory: Bill and Warren’s Excellent Adventure – which will be published on July 15, 2024.
A short promotional video for our new book to be released on July 15, 2024.
In this book, William Mitchell and Warren Mosler, original proponents of what’s come to be known as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), discuss their perspectives about how MMT has evolved over the last 30 years,
In delightful, entertaining, and informative way, Bill and Warren reminisce about how, from vastly different backgrounds, they came together to develop MMT.
The book that provides the reader with a fundamental understanding of the original logic behind ‘The MMT Money Story’ including the role of coercive taxation, the source of unemployment, the source of the price level, and the imperative of the Job Guarantee as the essence of a progressive society – the essence of Bill and Warren’s excellent adventure.
Transkripzioa:
0:00
f
0:25
[Music]
0:32
[Music]
0:46
hello Warren and I crossed paths in
0:49
early
0:50
1996 and realized that ideas we had at
0:53
the time about the way the economy
0:55
worked had significant
0:57
overlap the partnership that we formed
0:59
was is the beginning of what we now call
1:01
Modern monetary Theory or
1:04
mmt after 28 years we’ve decided to
1:08
write the definitive book on mmt tracing
1:12
back to our individual paths how we came
1:15
together and detailing the body of work
1:17
that has subsequently been developed
1:20
under the mmt
1:21
banner there are 14 chapters in all mmt
1:26
101 provides a detailed account of the
1:28
mmt basics
1:31
several chapters consider the history
1:33
principles and nuances of of the job
1:36
guarantee idea which is an integral
1:39
aspect of
1:40
mmt the chapter central banks and all
1:44
that offers all you would ever want to
1:46
know about the way the banking sector
1:49
operates there is a chapter that clears
1:51
up all the misconceptions about
1:53
inflation and monetary policy and we
1:55
detail how central banks appear to have
1:58
gone Rogue
2:00
we delve into the complexity of
2:01
international trade in another chapter
2:04
and provide a detailed case study of the
2:06
Japanese irony where the policy makers
2:09
are thinking in mainstream terms but
2:12
through their policy choices they expose
2:15
the fictional nature of mainstream
2:18
Theory the book is full of personal
2:20
anecdotes and so-called Adventure notes
2:24
which provide background to our journey
2:26
both individually and together it is
2:29
written in mostly lay terms in a
2:32
light-hearted style we hope you enjoy it
2:36
[Music]
2:59
[Music]
oooooo
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky : Gaza Is Uninhabitable Punching Bag For Israel https://youtu.be/V5GwyOZ52so?si=pO-lxWZizkPXpHoC
ooo
Noam Chomsky : Gaza Is Uninhabitable Punching Bag For Israel
Bideoa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5GwyOZ52so
Noam Chomsky is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called “the father of modern linguistics”, Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science
Transkripzioa:
so it’s really an annexation barrier
0:02
cuts through most of it almost all of it
0:04
cuts through the West Bank and the uh
0:07
the area to the Israeli side of the
0:09
security boundaries basically integrated
0:11
into Israel uh Israel has slowly been
0:14
taking over the Jordan Valley large part
0:16
of the Arab land uh pal there’s various
0:20
techniques usual technique is to declare
0:24
a military zone where nobody’s allowed
0:26
to live so you move out the Palestinians
0:28
then you move in Jewish settlers a
0:30
little bit later when nobody’s looking
0:33
uh that uh Palestinians are left and
0:37
meanwhile I should say there’s a huge
0:39
infrastructure project developed which
0:42
means an Israeli or you or me a visitor
0:46
can travel through the West Bank on
0:48
super highways and not know that there’s
0:51
a Palestinian or maybe we’ll see a
0:53
picturesque biblical scene of a shepherd
0:56
with a goat somewhere up in a hill but
0:59
for the Palestinians it means living in
1:02
Fairly isolated enclaves often separated
1:06
from their lands uh constant severe
1:11
harassment uh settlers first of all are
1:14
just violent they go in and kill people
1:16
and so on U recently Israeli
1:20
soldiers repeatedly they murder some
1:23
Palestinian on some pretext break into
1:26
houses at midnight to take somebody out
1:29
for inter interogation often a teenage
1:32
kid uh constant har or checkpoints all
1:35
over the place you never know where
1:36
they’re going to be so you live under
1:38
constant harassment uh there is as in
1:42
neocolonial societies generally there is
1:45
a place for Elites so ramala is a place
1:50
for Palestinian Elites it’s a western
1:53
style City you can live pretty
1:55
nicely yeah you’ve seen there and U
1:58
that’s the standard I mean you go to a
2:01
poorest Central African country and find
2:03
the same thing you know but uh so that’s
2:06
the structure in the West Bank uh the
2:09
golen heights Israel’s just taken again
2:11
over Security Council orders which
2:14
ordered them not to en exit but they did
2:16
anyway and that’s kind of
2:19
Forgotten Gaza as I say is just to keep
2:23
it alive and keep it as a punching bag
2:26
and what’s life for a Palestinian in
2:29
Gaza
2:30
literally it’s going to be uninhabitable
2:33
in a few years the World Bank and other
2:37
International organizations have warned
2:39
that within few years maybe as early as
2:43
2020 uh the strip will just be
2:45
uninhabitable the West Bank uh the goal
2:49
is basically to have the Palestinians
2:51
leave uh the some may remain Israel will
2:55
take what it wants ultimately it will be
2:58
integrate it is being inte integrated
3:00
into Israel as a kind of a greater
3:02
Israel and the US supports it so goes on
3:05
I can remember um in the 51 day war in
3:08
Gaza uh constantly I was obsessed by
3:11
listening to CNN I would hear Mark regev
3:14
uh basically the prr person and uh you
3:17
know some of the things he would say
3:19
again and again and he would chide uh
3:21
people on CNN and he said you know you
3:23
must remember we left Gaza in 2005 and I
3:27
said Israel never left for for a minute
3:30
um can you talk about Israel’s Matrix of
3:32
control in Gaza particularly and the
3:35
West Bank so people understand
3:38
that by uh
3:40
2005 Israeli Hawks like Ariel shiron
3:45
realized that it makes no sense to keep
3:49
a few thousand set Jewish settlers in
3:52
Gaza with a large part of the Israeli
3:55
Army protecting them settlers uh uh
3:59
using the major the resources of the
4:02
region agricultural water depleting the
4:05
aquifer it simply made no sense it would
4:08
make a lot more sense to move them from
4:10
their subsidized illegal homes in Gaza
4:14
to subsidized illegal homes in the West
4:17
Bank so a an event was staged a kind of
4:23
a stag National trauma uh to make it
4:27
look as if this is some amazing
4:30
withdrawal never
4:32
again scenes of little children clinging
4:36
to their homes and so on it was all
4:38
faked in fact it was all a repetition of
4:42
what the press in Israel called National
4:45
trauma 82 when Israel staged the same
4:49
trauma when they had to remove settlers
4:53
from the Egyptian SI after the agreement
4:56
with uh um with Egypt about the sin uh
5:01
and if they had wanted to withdraw
5:04
simply was perfectly straightforward all
5:06
they had to do was send inform the
5:10
settlers that on such and such a day
5:13
August 1st the U IDF the Israeli Army
5:17
will be withdrawn send lares the
5:20
settlers would climb into the lares
5:23
they’d be taken to their subsidized
5:25
illegal homes in the West Bank and quiet
5:28
but that way it’s
5:30
you can’t make a scene you can’t say we
5:33
withdrew uh never again you know we’ve
5:36
got a h on to every inch in the West
5:38
Bank and so on uh Israeli commentators
5:42
ridiculed that it was so transparent but
5:44
it sold in the west you know was picture
5:47
now Israel never left the occupation
5:50
remains complete everyone even the
5:54
united states recognizes that Gaza is
5:57
occupied territory that he withdrew the
6:01
it’s under total control Israeli Army
6:04
blocks any
6:06
a entry in and out the Navy keeps
6:11
fishing
6:12
boats couple of kilometers offshore not
6:16
because they’re any threat but that way
6:18
they can assure that fishermen fish in
6:22
highly polluted Waters polluted because
6:25
Israel destroyed the sewage systems and
6:28
as Vice gloss point it out it’s uh the
6:31
idea is just put the it’s form Malahide
6:36
we put an end to discussion of any
6:39
Palestinian national rights and we keep
6:42
the population on a diet that’s for
6:45
Israeli consumption for the West it’s
6:48
Mark re reg’s propaganda incidentally
6:51
it’s kind of an interesting fact
6:54
about he the the modern Hebrew language
6:58
that there are two words for prop
7:00
propaganda back 60 years ago there used
7:03
to be one word that meant propaganda
7:05
like every other country now there’s two
7:07
words propag same word tamula is the
7:10
propaganda of other people but Israeli
7:13
propaganda is called hasbara which means
7:17
explanation uh the idea being everything
7:20
we do is so obviously correct that all
7:23
we have to do is explain it to the goam
7:26
and then they’ll understand occupation
7:28
of the mind has as opposed to the
7:30
military occupation kind of well I think
7:32
this opened a little segue from the same
7:34
documentary peace propaganda in the
7:37
promised land and this is a quotation
7:38
from Hussein iish and I’m quoting here
7:41
Israel has always cast itself and is
7:43
cast by the media as reactive as simply
7:46
responding to Palestinian aggression
7:49
Israel Strikes Back Against Terror
7:51
Israel retaliates Israel responds
7:54
Palestinians attack Israel
7:57
retaliates Israel’s posture is anything
7:59
but defensive could you well the history
8:01
of Gaz is quite interesting in this
8:03
respect actually I’ve reviewed it in
8:06
detail as have others so you can refer
8:08
to the documentation but the basic story
8:11
is very straightforward uh Israel
8:14
formally withdrew in November
8:18
2005 that’s that’s what and there was an
8:20
agreement a truce agreement between
8:23
Israel and Palestinian Authority it said
8:26
that U uh the Palestinian Authority
8:30
would take over Gaza there would it
8:32
would refrain from Terror Israel would
8:35
open the borders from Gaza to Israel the
8:39
borders would be open to Egypt they
8:42
would establish a sea port in
8:44
Gaza they would reconstruct the airport
8:48
that Israel had destroyed those were the
8:51
essential terms of the peace agreement
8:53
and that’s been repeated over and over
8:55
so it’s worth looking at closely that
8:58
was November in January two months later
9:02
the Palestinians committed a major crime
9:05
they had a free election first free
9:07
election in the Arab world carefully
9:10
monitored recognized to be free and fair
9:13
but they made a mistake they voted for
9:15
the wrong
9:16
people Hamas won the election uh Israel
9:20
immediately
9:22
instituted har had harsh reprisals the
9:26
attacks which had never ended just
9:27
picked up uh the
9:30
were a an embargo was imposed you know
9:34
blocking Goods in and out the United
9:36
States went further it turned to its
9:39
standard operating procedure when a free
9:41
election goes the wrong way started
9:43
organizing a military coup uh the uh
9:47
things continued to escalate Hamas Carri
9:50
the Palestinians carried out a second
9:52
crime they preempted the military coup
9:56
you don’t do that if the United States
9:58
is planning to throw a government you
10:00
don’t preempt the coup and stay in power
10:03
so the attacks
10:05
escalated uh I won’t run through the
10:07
details but the period there’s there’s a
10:10
standard procedure that’s gone on since
10:13
2005 A A TRU Accord is established Hamas
10:18
lives up to it Israel violates it never
10:21
keeps up to it finally Israel escalates
10:24
its violation that elicits some kind of
10:28
Hamas reaction that’s the pretext for
10:31
the next Act of what Israel calls mowing
10:34
the lawn another major attack each one
10:38
worse than the last the 51-day war was
10:41
the worst so far that’s the regular
10:44
procedure then comes the Western
10:47
propaganda
ooooo
Dokumental berria
@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu·
‘Palestine Remembers’: Help make this documentary come to life https://youtu.be/CrhMHKe2kWU?si=RmuVRC3emK3xjaxG
ooo
‘Palestine Remembers’: Help make this documentary come to life
Bideoa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrhMHKe2kWU
Memory, too, is part of Palestinian resistance. Memories of stolen land, of the horrors they have survived, and of the martyrs are an intimate part of Palestinians’ lives. Ross Domoney—who’s produced a series of films on the West Bank for TRNN—has now teamed up with Urban geographer Antonis Vradis. The duo, who produce films for Shadowgraph media are now embarking on a new project to document memory in the Palestinian resistance. Domoney and Vradis speak about their new project, and what led them to it.
Produced by Ross Domoney, Nadia Péridot, and Antonis Vradis Filmed and edited by Ross Domoney
Transkripzioa:
0:04
hello so I’m Ross Domin I’m a freelance
0:07
video journalist and documentary maker
0:10
and I am anony fradis I’m an academic
0:13
geographer as a filmmaker I freelance
0:16
for the real News Network making reports
0:18
from the UK and
0:20
Palestine over the last year the reports
0:23
made by my small team have gained
0:25
millions of views on
0:27
YouTube aside from my freelance work
0:30
with the real news Anis and I have
0:33
collaborated on Independent projects for
0:35
over a
0:37
decade and yeah we’ve worked together a
0:39
fair few times on projects right as
0:42
academic filmmaker Duo what we really
0:44
have recently we were in the West Bank
0:47
of Palestine and we got caught up in the
0:50
most destructive Israeli Army raid since
0:52
the second in TI let’s show you a clip
1:00
moments later the resistance Fighters
1:02
set off the air raid
1:04
alarm the much anticipated raid on nor
1:08
Shams has
1:14
begun those who can Flee for their
1:19
[Music]
1:26
lives so why are we making this video
1:29
here today
1:30
because as the Israeli War machine’s
1:32
destruction continues we have embarked
1:35
on an independent film project to
1:37
capture Palestinian memory as a form of
1:41
resistance we need your help to tell
1:43
this story check out our
1:47
[Music]
1:49
trailer how far back do you remember
1:56
[Music]
2:22
what historic event have you lived
2:24
through
2:27
[Music]
2:52
Palestinians carry generations of memory
2:57
[Music]
3:03
clear Palestine is facing the Eraser of
3:06
past present and
3:11
future support this independent
3:14
documentary and help keep these memories
3:19
alive we made some lifelong friends in
3:22
Palestine and shared some tough nights
3:26
together now we need to raise money to
3:29
cover the post- production costs of our
3:31
independent film so that we can start
3:33
the
3:35
editing maybe it would be nice to give
3:37
some kind
3:38
of background to this wider project
3:41
right because the trip that we just made
3:43
to Palestine which we’ll get to in a in
3:45
a moment is in a way the way we envisage
3:48
it is part of something much
3:50
[Music]
3:56
bigger so yeah we can back and forward
3:59
with it but Anis and I were always very
4:01
interested in filming like political
4:04
struggles all over the world we started
4:06
off when we were a bit younger of course
4:08
being super into uh riots and uprisings
4:11
but then in a way I think we found that
4:13
that language that film language was a
4:14
little bit restricting and we were kind
4:17
of doing like you know video journalism
4:19
work related to these um political
4:21
struggles but we wanted to find a
4:23
language that was more kind of
4:25
Otherworldly so you would understand the
4:27
politics of cities in conflict and
4:30
political turmoil but we wanted to find
4:32
a new film making language [ __ ] so where
4:35
should I start just tell you my dream it
4:37
was a nightmare I kind of remember I
4:39
have nightmares every night which
4:44
one go fast we’re inspired by dreams
4:48
right and I think I remember telling you
4:50
I had read an article someone had tried
4:52
something similar many years ago and we
4:56
realized I think that a lot of the
4:58
messages that we we wanted to convey or
5:01
that a more conventional documentary
5:03
would convey or even a political kind of
5:05
like film it is possible to get to get
5:09
this kind of uh sense this kind of like
5:12
feeling and this also this political
5:15
message and much more through the
5:17
language of
5:19
Dreams the concept of a dream is for
5:22
Trump to come in as president of the
5:24
United States tomorrow
5:28
[Music]
5:44
[Music]
5:49
it can reveal so much about your
5:52
individual State you know of being of
5:55
course but much more so than I think the
5:57
collective one right so totally and then
6:00
we kind of hit it also with like a
6:02
geographers approach didn’t we and we
6:03
said how can we confine this to one
6:06
space so we decided we’d stick to subway
6:08
trains like underground trains metro
6:10
systems and then we just ask commuters
6:13
again and again and again what did you
6:14
dream about in your
6:19
sleep so this brings us to the this
6:23
brings us to the last few years where it
6:26
feels that the world is going more and
6:28
more kind of like in a in an intense
6:32
Direction socially politically
6:34
psychologically uh and there’s more and
6:36
more events like we started with Trump’s
6:39
inauguration as you said and then we
6:42
realized that they keep happening so the
6:44
next one on was
6:46
Ukraine uh where we decided to go pretty
6:50
much as soon
6:52
as um the war broke out really the full
6:55
scill invasion yeah the full scill
6:57
invasion
7:01
[Music]
7:07
dear the lights have been turned off so
7:10
this station cannot be seen by Russian
7:28
bombers police are on the hunt for
7:31
[Music]
7:41
[Music]
7:47
[Music]
7:48
sabots ukrainians travel above and
7:51
underground by train as Russia tries to
7:54
occupy their country
7:56
[Music]
8:07
[Music]
8:13
yeah it’s very difficult to untangle it
8:15
but exactly fast forward to October 7th
8:19
and I think probably the moment happened
8:22
and I do remember reading about it as it
8:24
was developing as a story I think
8:26
probably a lot of us were in a similar
8:29
situation you know it became apparent
8:31
quite early on that this was very big
8:34
that this was going to be a huge sort of
8:37
like that the backlash of was going to
8:40
kind of like take place would be
8:42
enormous uh and I remember getting
8:44
messages from friends and family saying
8:47
hope hope you’re not planning on going
8:49
but I think deep inside we were already
8:53
you know I was already thinking that
8:54
there has to be a way to to go out there
8:58
but with Palestine and with uh
9:01
everything that’s been happening since
9:03
with this uh
9:05
terrible
9:07
unfathomable genocide it felt like the
9:11
stakes were so much higher for me at
9:14
least and I think we share that
9:16
sentiment right that it was uh it was so
9:19
important to try and go there and do
9:23
justice to to the people to the struggle
9:26
to what happening to what we’re going
9:27
through so in a way maybe at least I
9:30
felt that for a while I was kind of like
9:33
I had cold feet about it not because I
9:36
didn’t want to go but because I wanted
9:38
so much but yeah I felt that huge
9:40
pressure as well and sensitivity and
9:43
acceptance as well that of course me and
9:45
anist are Outsiders and we’re not
9:47
Palestinian and we totally accept that
9:49
position but we still wanted to go in
9:51
and use our skills in the best way
9:54
possible to tell a film that would
9:56
hopefully be different and related to
9:59
what we’ve kind of focused on in the
10:01
past with these kind of subconscious
10:03
worlds and then it kind of changed into
10:06
subconscious merged into things about
10:08
memory as well with Palestine well there
10:11
was a very practical problem right that
10:12
we haven’t really discussed much but
10:14
there’s there’s no trains in Palestine
10:16
so it was it would have been difficult
10:18
to continue on that same thread you know
10:21
I don’t think ever came up in the
10:23
conversations but it’s true so the one
10:25
vehicle that you’ve got literally and
10:27
metaphorically for to to tell a story
10:30
you don’t have it so there were other
10:33
elements that we needed to kind of like
10:35
think as as means of kind of like
10:38
connecting these threads and through the
10:40
discussions through the readings that we
10:42
did of course memory is something that
10:44
came up again and again so I guess this
10:48
came from experience right that we
10:49
decided to still try as much as possible
10:52
and focus on like space and territory
10:55
and we accepted that we didn’t have this
10:57
train system as kind of a a go-to film
11:00
method with dreams so then we decided
11:03
that we’d stay in um like an area right
11:06
there was loads of coverage on Janine
11:08
refugee camp in the in the West Bank
11:11
which has a really strong armed
11:12
Palestinian resistance but then there
11:15
was also stuff going on in dolam refugee
11:17
camp and nor Shams which is right next
11:19
to dolam refugee camp which we felt was
11:22
a little bit more kind of under reported
11:25
so we decided that we’d go um stay in a
11:29
hotel that was in between the two camps
11:31
we had like tolam Camp maybe like was it
11:34
200 M to our left yeah a little bit
11:37
further a little bit further yeah and
11:39
then nor Shams was really close like 50
11:41
100 m to our right of the hotel and we
11:46
wanted to go with this memory concept
11:48
right one of the original ideas was that
11:52
we would try to
11:53
find uh either survivors of baka the
11:56
Palestinian catastroph of 194
12:00
48 direct survivors people who were
12:03
there obviously children there could
12:05
only have been children back then if
12:07
they still alive today um or their
12:10
descendants you know family who have you
12:13
know grandparents and parents who would
12:16
have had so either direct or indirect
12:19
experience and memories of the NAA and
12:22
we wanted to record them to capture this
12:26
these memories and to try and somehow
12:29
integrate them into a documentary also
12:33
filming what these places look like
12:35
today cuz you know geographically
12:37
they’re still there like as in there are
12:40
spots on the map you know the places
12:42
that they talk about physically it would
12:44
still be the same location that you can
12:46
trace but in terms of the landscape we
12:50
imagined we expected and we’re not wrong
12:53
that in most cases it would be
12:55
completely different right it would have
12:56
turned into a part of a Israel
13:00
State um so yeah yeah and it’s quite to
13:05
use those words that you’re not really
13:06
allowed to use in pal you say
13:07
complicated but I guess we have to
13:09
explain the bigger context as well so
13:12
these camps like Janine DM nor Shams
13:17
where we were filming they were um camps
13:20
set up by Palestinian refugees who were
13:22
refugees from the naar in 1948 so they
13:26
native Palestinians who were forced to
13:27
flee their lands when the Zionist
13:29
militias created what is today known as
13:32
the state of Israel so they’re refugees
13:34
in their own land and then they built up
13:35
their own kind of structures didn’t they
13:38
they really are part of the urban fabric
13:41
they so it’s quite interesting in that
13:43
they’re called they still called Refugee
13:46
they’re still called camps refugee camps
13:49
and people will call them the 1948 camps
13:52
uh so even in the name the the memory of
13:55
the event is there you know in the
13:57
everyday life of of of these camps but
14:00
even though the cold camps they’re
14:02
not inal or temporary in terms of the
14:07
structures right they are as you’re
14:09
saying they are you know bricks and
14:11
mortar and they they buildt in the same
14:14
way as the rest of the city they’re
14:16
denser absolutely they’re some of the
14:18
most densely populated places on Earth
14:21
really uh incredibly dense super narrow
14:25
streets and
14:26
Alleyways and amongst these uh dense
14:30
camps there’s a huge amount of
14:31
solidarity between Palestinian residents
14:35
and there’s also armed Palestinian
14:36
groups that have um had quite a new
14:39
presence I think it was ammad the guy
14:41
that we that helped us out a lot in
14:43
Palestine was saying that it’s kind of a
14:44
new phenomenon that’s happened since
14:47
2021 was it there’s always there has
14:50
been different moments of course
14:51
throughout the Palestinian struggle
14:52
where there’s been armed resistance
14:54
movement but now it’s kind of turned
14:57
into this thing that’s a lot more wild
14:59
with different battalions and
15:02
groups normally quite Brave young men
15:06
right that don’t necessarily cover their
15:08
faces and they have battalions with
15:10
groups of their friends and then the
15:12
Israeli Army makes incursions into the
15:14
camps kills the fighters kills civilians
15:17
collectively punishes the camps for
15:20
having the fighters inside the camps
15:23
tears up the roads and then you know
15:26
there’s funerals afterwards more people
15:28
join up to join the brigades because
15:30
they’re all memories and traumas and
15:32
friends that are lost and it’s just like
15:34
a never ending cycle of resistance yeah
15:38
the people that have actually taken up
15:39
arms are not it’s not that big a number
15:43
you know talking 40 50 in a population
15:45
of thousands but what’s really striking
15:48
is how well and how much supported and
15:50
respected they are from the the camp
15:54
residents as a whole really you know
15:56
there this this incredibly wide kind of
15:58
like Network of support and
16:01
admiration it’s very again it’s a
16:04
question of how do you do justice to the
16:07
footage that you’ve got but also to the
16:09
story that you’re trying to to tell and
16:12
I think beyond the any kind of like
16:15
militaristic or kind of like Narrative
16:18
of you know braveness which of course
16:20
there’s a massive braveness involved
16:22
there there’s something about the memory
16:25
of the fighters that’s even more it’s
16:28
absolutely crucial it’s a crucial part
16:30
of the thread of of daily life and of
16:33
how this community organizes and
16:36
essentially defends itself so it defends
16:39
itself through memory and memory in a
16:42
way you keep thinking that memory is a
16:43
weapon for the Palestinians right it’s
16:46
something that we’re really holding on
16:48
to and it acts as a kind of a shield
16:51
against these attacks so there’s memory
16:55
in at least two levels I can think of
16:57
one of them is the memory of the
16:58
fighters
16:59
themselves so many of them who we spoke
17:02
to told us that they joined because of
17:05
another fighter friend or a relative who
17:08
died was killed and then that that was
17:11
the defining moment the moment when they
17:13
decided they needed to take up the fight
17:15
right so it acts almost like a chain of
17:19
the memory of loss that kind of then
17:21
then feeds into the continuation of his
17:23
struggle if that makes sense that’s how
17:25
this memory chain is built but also for
17:29
w The Wider Community also they’re held
17:32
as Heroes when Al when when we’re alive
17:36
but even so more so in a way when
17:38
they’re after they’re killed they become
17:40
Martyrs they become symbols really right
17:44
and they you see them then you see them
17:46
within the day I think uh all of these
17:49
posters had been put up in their camp
17:51
with the photos of the most recent
17:54
marters yeah yeah it will happen so
17:57
quickly like it was almost an expected
18:00
process so someone would die including
18:02
people that we filmed or a p a person
18:05
that we filmed and you know hours
18:07
afterwards he was killed and then kind
18:10
of hours after that or a day or a day
18:12
and a half after that he was already
18:14
immortalized on a poster like a very
18:17
well-designed poster of him as a Marty
18:19
and his family were wearing him um as a
18:23
picture like inside a necklace and it
18:25
was this kind of whole process and cycle
18:30
and it was all related to memory and
18:33
then of course there is the memory of
18:34
the nacba and the memory of where all of
18:37
these Camp residents had initially and
18:40
originally fled from and I think that
18:42
was also a narrative that the
18:43
Palestinian resistance Fighters were
18:45
fighting for right it was to fight for
18:47
the right to return back to their
18:50
ancestral lands in a way there’s two at
18:53
least two sort of cycles of memory so
18:57
there’s one very short
18:59
uh in the grand scheme of things right
19:01
very short where is like the life of a
19:03
fighter they they they decide to join
19:05
they join they’re killed they’re marted
19:08
and then someone else will take their
19:11
place right that happens relatively fast
19:14
in historical terms because then there’s
19:17
this wider much bigger cycle of memory
19:19
which is the Naka right so they lost the
19:22
original loss in a way and it all goes
19:25
back to that or people Aspire for it to
19:27
go they want to return so there is
19:28
literally a cycle where we’re trying to
19:30
get back to trying to get back to where
19:32
we started from and in a way I think
19:36
this document is about these different
19:39
cycles of of memory and how they
19:42
intersect really in everyday life that’s
19:48
that’s one of the most striking I think
19:49
things about everyday life in Palestine
19:53
in occupied Palestine in the West Bank
19:56
it is that memory plays such a crucial
19:59
role in in ways that it doesn’t really
20:03
in in other places I can’t really and
20:06
it’s something I keep thinking about it
20:08
it’s not as prominent here or in other
20:11
European countries or in the States and
20:14
it’s like memory is a tool of resistance
20:16
right and even though Israel has the
20:18
balance in their check with military
20:21
funding and you know it’s so unjust the
20:25
way that things work over there they can
20:28
never kill the Palestinian spirit and to
20:32
be alive or to rebuild your home that’s
20:34
been destroyed to just do that act is to
20:37
keep memory alive and if I think that
20:39
was what the
20:41
resistance was but I find it’s very hard
20:44
to put into words because what’s
20:45
happening in Gaza and the West Bank is
20:47
so awful and it is it’s not too strong a
20:51
word to use things like extermination
20:54
and these words that are very uh heavily
20:57
historically loaded but we hope our film
21:00
can keep Palestinian memory
21:03
alive that’s what we’re trying to do
21:09
[Music]
oooooo
