Nadene Goldfoot
The primary source of the Oscars of frustration was No Other Land’s win for Best Documentary and its creators’ acceptance speeches, which criticized Israel and called for the release of hostages while advocating for “national rights for both of our people.”
Co-director is Basel Adra on left, a Palestinian activist who is from Masafer Yatta, a region of Judea Samaria and Yuval Abraham, the other co-director.
“No Other Land,” a portrait of a West Bank village under Israeli military occupation, won the Oscar for best documentary feature at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday. In their acceptance speech, two of the film’s four directors pleaded for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
First, how about the rights of Israelis to live in their homes without being attacked by the Palestinians who showed how merciless they were in their slaughtering of our people!
We've gained our rights by going through the correct channels beginning in WWI by dealing with the powered people, the Allies fighting against the German side of the battle. It took years, but we were able to announce the birth of our nation, Israel, on May 14, 1948 when the 30 year British Mandate was up. That was 30 years of waiting for us during the Nazi regime when 6 million of us were about to be and were murdered.
Second, what rights Palestinians have were already given to them by the Israelis over and over again but they have refused them, opting out instead for driving Israelis into the sea and off the land. in other words, killing Jews and putting an end to Israel as they had tried starting in the 1920s.
Basel Adra, born in 1996, will be 29 in June.
Adra went on to describe the issues faced by his village, including home demolitions and displacement. injustice and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people, which is what he sees, which is at the fault of Hamas terrorists who will not stop attacking Israel in trying to wipe it off the map. This is something the population like Adra does not like to admit. Israel gives the Palestinian population every chance to leave the areas that Hamas is hiding and sniping from, there on purpose to give Israelis the bad rap, not caring that their own people die in the result.
Yuval Abraham, an Israeli investigative journalist who co-directed “No Other Land,” described Adra as his “brother” but decried that they are considered “unequal.” He had the audacity to say in a mike to a packed audience "“We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law and Basel is under military laws that destroy his life,” Abraham said. I can't believe how he could say this! Doesn't he attend school in Israel? Hasn't he learned our history? It's like his brain has been taken over by AI and he's not an Israeli. So I've checked out his history:
"Based in Jerusalem, Abraham was born to an Israeli middle-class family in the southern city of Beersheba. He is of Mizrahi Jewish and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry; his Jewish Yemenite grandfather was a fluent Palestinian Arabic speaker. One of his grandmothers was born in an Italian concentration camp in Libya, and one of his grandfathers lost most of his family in the Holocaust. At 19, Abraham was enlisted and assigned to the Israel Defense Forces's Intelligence Corps, but he never assumed his role: after a week in training, he refused to serve for political and personal reasons and decided to leave the army. The process of leaving took a few weeks, during which he was assigned to be a quartermaster in the Air force. After he left the military he did volunteer work with Israeli and Palestinian children at schools for two years. Learning Arabic and meeting Palestinians in the West Bank, including staying with families as their homes were demolished by the Israeli Defense Force, is how Abraham became an outspoken critic of the military occupation of Palestinians. He has worked in language education and taught Arabic."
If Israel just gave up because they would kill Palestinians in the wake of war, they would of course lose, be killed themselves plus their families, and so the only decision they can make is give them the way to leave and continue the war. Remember, it was Hamas who started the war. This particular attack starting it all was the October 7th invasion of hoards of Palestinians, Hamas and "Innocent Palestinians?" Ha! They took lives as brutally as can be done, lives celebrating the end of a Jewish holiday, slaughtered them horribly as if in a horror movie, taking others on orders from their leaders to be tortured later and used for bait. Oh, we Jews could certainly create a movie about this, and may do just that one day.
Look, Abraham, it's time you studied about the Ashkenazi world of Jews and how they have suffered and were in need of their own national home where all Jews living in Jerusalem were that was destroyed in 70 CE by the Romans who overwhelmed their ancestors, killing so many by starvation and force, causing the remained to flee with the wind into other parts of the world. It's taken us over 2,000 years to gain back the land that was waiting for us, and here we are---all legal through the UN of the day; League of Nations and the United Nations. Sephardis had it bad, too, such as being treated as 2nd class people, and there were a few pogroms in your territory against Jews, and it's all studied about in Israel's schools, I should hope. I was a teacher in Safed, but the English teacher, and was not teaching history. I know they did some re-enactments of different parts of history, something my husband , a teacher and actor, would have loved them doing as well.
Read some history, like The Settlers by Meir Levin and Joan Peters' From Time Immemorial and of course, The Source by James A.Michener! Exciting reading and getting history at the same time!
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