'Jerusalem' Filmmaker Discusses Documentary : NPR
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BRAND: And you really see that towards the end of the movie. The two mothers finally meet. They're unable to meet face-to -face for various reasons, but they meet via a satellite hookup. Ms. MEDALIA: Right. BRAND: And I think both sides are trying so hard to convince the other side about what they're going through in their perspective. And yet, even though they share so much, share so much in common -they're both grieving mothers of young, beautiful, talented young women -they cannot reach across that divide. Ms. MEDALIA: I think Avigail was really trying to say, enough, and let's not talk about the politics because we're not get to get anywhere. And let's talk about the personal kind of story, being mothers and losing our daughter. And let's look to the future. And she asked Um-Samir to really condemn and say that what her daughter did is not the way, and we should do something else. And Um-Samir is locked into this historical narrative of victimhood, of the Palestinians who -she cannot leave that. BRAND: When the two mothers meet, Avigail and Um-Samir, Avigail says to Um-Samir, your daughter and my daughter got killed for nothing. Ms. MEDALIA: Right. For Avigail, if she lost her daughter for nothing. That bombing didn't solve the Middle East's conflict. She didn't get anything. And to her also, Um-Samir didn't get anything. But for Um-Samir, she sees that as an act on the way to achieve the right-see, Palestinians always look at themselves as the people of the last stand. So that's another fight in the many fights that they have to fight, which we don't, obviously, don't see it this way. BRAND: We, being Israelis... Ms. MEDALIA: Israelis, yeah. BRAND: As you say, it does seem to be a microcosm of the whole conflict, and it does seem at the end of your movie to be, to be rather hopeless. Ms. MEDALIA: The meeting actually, in reality, took four hours. And none of these mother left, because they were really trying to get to some resolution, despite all the difficulties and disagreement that they had. And I think that's the hope. Erasing the Distinction Between Innocence and Evil - Michael Medved
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/michaelmedved/2007/10/31/erasing_the_distinction...
"The Israeli girl went to the market to buy Sabbath supplies; the Palestinian girl went there to murder strangers in a homicide bombing. The publicity for the film also downplays the security guard killed alongside the girls, and the thirty bystanders wounded in the blast. The real reason for the “complexity of reconciliation” is that the mother of the bomber, encouraged by a society that praises her murderous child as a heroine with posters and commemorations, now feels “hesitant pride” in her heinous act." RRD:One thing the film got right.It is a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict".More accurately described as a conflict between Israelis the majority of whom wish to live in peace alonside palestinians,and the Palestinians the majority of whom are obsessed with destroying Israel & killing jews,rather than forming a peaceful state alongside Israel.
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=15844696
BRAND: And you really see that towards the end of the movie. The two mothers finally meet. They're unable to meet face-to -face for various reasons, but they meet via a satellite hookup. Ms. MEDALIA: Right. BRAND: And I think both sides are trying so hard to convince the other side about what they're going through in their perspective. And yet, even though they share so much, share so much in common -they're both grieving mothers of young, beautiful, talented young women -they cannot reach across that divide. Ms. MEDALIA: I think Avigail was really trying to say, enough, and let's not talk about the politics because we're not get to get anywhere. And let's talk about the personal kind of story, being mothers and losing our daughter. And let's look to the future. And she asked Um-Samir to really condemn and say that what her daughter did is not the way, and we should do something else. And Um-Samir is locked into this historical narrative of victimhood, of the Palestinians who -she cannot leave that. BRAND: When the two mothers meet, Avigail and Um-Samir, Avigail says to Um-Samir, your daughter and my daughter got killed for nothing. Ms. MEDALIA: Right. For Avigail, if she lost her daughter for nothing. That bombing didn't solve the Middle East's conflict. She didn't get anything. And to her also, Um-Samir didn't get anything. But for Um-Samir, she sees that as an act on the way to achieve the right-see, Palestinians always look at themselves as the people of the last stand. So that's another fight in the many fights that they have to fight, which we don't, obviously, don't see it this way. BRAND: We, being Israelis... Ms. MEDALIA: Israelis, yeah. BRAND: As you say, it does seem to be a microcosm of the whole conflict, and it does seem at the end of your movie to be, to be rather hopeless. Ms. MEDALIA: The meeting actually, in reality, took four hours. And none of these mother left, because they were really trying to get to some resolution, despite all the difficulties and disagreement that they had. And I think that's the hope. Erasing the Distinction Between Innocence and Evil - Michael Medved
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/michaelmedved/2007/10/31/erasing_the_distinction...
"The Israeli girl went to the market to buy Sabbath supplies; the Palestinian girl went there to murder strangers in a homicide bombing. The publicity for the film also downplays the security guard killed alongside the girls, and the thirty bystanders wounded in the blast. The real reason for the “complexity of reconciliation” is that the mother of the bomber, encouraged by a society that praises her murderous child as a heroine with posters and commemorations, now feels “hesitant pride” in her heinous act." RRD:One thing the film got right.It is a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict".More accurately described as a conflict between Israelis the majority of whom wish to live in peace alonside palestinians,and the Palestinians the majority of whom are obsessed with destroying Israel & killing jews,rather than forming a peaceful state alongside Israel.
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