By Nurith Gertz
Although lately the whole global has been more and more occupied with the Israeli-Palestinian clash, there are few actually trustworthy resources of data approximately Palestinian society and tradition. the best assets for figuring out Palestinian tradition is the cinema, which has strived to delineate Palestinian historical past and to painting the day-by-day lives of Palestinian males, girls, and kids. the following, an Israeli and a Palestinian pupil, in an extraordinary and welcome collaboration, keep on with the advance of Palestinian cinema, commenting on its reaction to political and social differences. They display that the extra that social, political, and monetary stipulations have worsened and chaos and soreness succeed, the extra Palestinian cinema has engaged with the nationwide struggle.
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The economic crisis and the increasing unemployment rate that had left their mark on Israel in the late 1970s affected Israeli Arabs and, at the beginning of the 1980s, badly hurt the inhabitants of the Occupied Territories. Palestinians were the first to be made redundant. The difficult financial situation, along with the accelerated growth of new Jewish settlements in the occupied land, created a convenient foundation for a national awakening (Kimerling and Migdal, 1993: 230). This awakening reached its peak in the uprising against the Israeli occupation, the Intifada (“shaking off”), that broke out on 9 December 1987, in the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
The desire to fight is the most important element in the people’s war, and thus it is also the most important component of the cinematic effort . . the revolutionary film is dedicated to tactical objectives of the revolution and to its strategic objectives as well. A militant film, therefore, must become an essential commodity for the masses, just like a loaf of bread. (Farid, no date: 249) An additional element affecting the nature of Palestinian cinema of the time was the connection with revolutionary Western directors.
Such attacks and the continuous closures with which Israel responded led to an endless cycle that worsened the financial situation of the Occupied Territories’ population. They also prompted the emergence of more shaheed, and resulted in another uprising, the Second Intifada, ignited in September 2000 by the visit of the head of the Israeli opposition at that time, Ariel Sharon, to Al Aqsa Mosque (Temple Mount). The Second Intifada, which in the beginning included an uprising of Arabs of Israeli citizenship, aggravated the condition of the Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories and increased the fissures within Palestinian society, as well as highlighting the militant voices of those in Israeli society and politics who opposed any peace agreement with the Palestinians.