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The American and Japanese governments renewed
the defense treaty (the AMPO) in 1960,

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giving the chance for closer military collaboration,

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and allowing the Americans to run
their military aggressions in East Asia,

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including Korea and Vietnam.

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Demonstrations against
the treaty surrounded the Diet.

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Michiko Kamba, a 22-year-old
university student, was killed.

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From the opposition of the treaty,
a new Japanese left movement started to grow.

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Many political structures were formed,
some operated locally,

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and some sought collaborations internationally.

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On the other side of earth, the Palestine
Liberation Organization was born.

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PLO is the organization
that fights for the liberation of Palestine.

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It has legislative, administrative, military,
judicial, educational, and other institutions,

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the highest of which is the Palestinian
National Council, like the Diet of Japan.

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The revolution was an inspiration for us,
people suffering from American imperialism.

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Some of our comrades joined the Palestinians
to support, to learn and to document.

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Film was a powerful way
to keep our memories alive.

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Almost all these books
come from the PLO office.

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I am not sure,

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but it seems to be a PLO officer
who was collecting these documents.

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What are these?

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This is a newspaper
that speaks about Palestine.

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PLO is written here, the date is there...

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1982.

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This one is about Beirut,

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and this one is about the refugees...

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Can we see the reels?

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This one is...

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Lebanon War, WHY?

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Ahh, it's this one.
-Yes.

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This is titled "The Urgent Call".

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Public Broadcasting Corporation...The Game.

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Do you know this film?
-No.

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We are very interested

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in having good relations
with the Japanese people,

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because we admire the way
Japan and the Japanese people

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had the ability
to stand firmly against

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the American colonialists
after the Second War.

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So we are looking to strengthen

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the links between the Palestinian people
and the Japanese people.

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And we are sure that we will succeed
because we have a lot of friends.

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I know a lot of them among your people,

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your friendly people,

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because we consider that the Japanese
people are very near to our cause,

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our justice cause.

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When we heard about the Israeli
invasion of Lebanon in May 1982,

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our heart went out to the Palestinian
people, who had suffered so much.

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Yet, little did we know, this moment
was meant to mark an ending of a revolution,

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and at the same time, the beginning
of people in struggle archives coming together.

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These twins were born at Shatila camp.

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Their mother vowed to
raise them as commanders

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Day and night, the Israelis showered
destruction on every part of the city.

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Every type of bomb was used,

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including those prohibited
by international conventions.

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Cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs,
and vacuum bombs were used.

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At 8:30 in the morning on Saturday,
the 18th of September,

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I first heard the shootings
and the sound of bulldozers.

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I tried to enter Shatila and Sabra camps,

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but the Israelis prevented me,

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and they shot a tank shell near me to warn me.

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I went to the southern side of the camps,
and found everything silent.

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I walked about 200 meters,

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and then I looked to the left side.

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I found the first dead body.

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The corpse was crushed
out of shape in the rubble.

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Then, I saw an old man
with a gunshot in his temple.

00:11:23.500 --> 00:11:25.750
One of his eyes had been pierced.

00:11:26.458 --> 00:11:31.125
Stiffening of the corpse had not yet taken
place, and his blood had not even dried.

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Nearby was a corpse of another old man.

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I noticed something green under his eye.

00:11:39.375 --> 00:11:43.875
it was a grenade, rigged
to explode if the body was moved.

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That is how I became certain
that this was a deliberate massacre.

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Nobody knows the exact number
of those who were killed.

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It is estimated that 3,000 people
were massacred in three days.

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The Israelis actively participated
in the actual killings

00:12:15.333 --> 00:12:18.583
as I saw tracks of Israeli tanks
next the Akka hospital,

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which was still burning when I entered it.

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And many were killed in their beds.

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I will never forget what I saw
at Sabra and Shatila camps

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on the 18th of September, 1982.

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The PLO organized
a Civil Defense Committee

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but the Zionist army gradually
narrowed the siege of West Beirut

00:13:37.750 --> 00:13:41.333
in order to prevent
this committee from working.

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They completely cut off
the gasoline supply network

00:13:46.666 --> 00:13:48.208
in an attempt to make it impossible

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to drive regular vehicles,
let alone hospital ambulances.

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The Israeli siege of West Beirut
had entered a critical phase.

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Watching these films about
Palestine and its peoples' revolution,

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tells a story of resistance,
of resilience,

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and of love for a homeland.

00:14:57.333 --> 00:15:01.416
These films provide us
with a language for struggle,

00:15:01.583 --> 00:15:03.625
an image of a political practice,

00:15:04.208 --> 00:15:07.333
a face of solidarity.

00:15:45.750 --> 00:15:48.958
Unified Media
Palestinian Cinema Institute

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presents

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War in Lebanon.

00:16:00.875 --> 00:16:03.750
This is Beirut in 1976,

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the sound of death constantly fills its sky,

00:16:07.625 --> 00:16:10.458
the smoke of fires
crowd out the scent of perfumes,

00:16:10.916 --> 00:16:14.083
and people constantly flee death in its streets.

00:16:16.125 --> 00:16:17.250
One day,

00:16:17.458 --> 00:16:20.833
April 13th, 1975,

00:16:21.375 --> 00:16:24.875
A bus was on its way to Tal Al-Zaatar camp

00:16:25.166 --> 00:16:27.375
carrying a number of Palestinians.

00:16:27.875 --> 00:16:30.125
The bus was forced to change its route

00:16:30.250 --> 00:16:32.583
to pass through the
Ain el-Rummaneh neighbourhood

00:16:32.666 --> 00:16:35.166
where it was fired upon
by machine guns,

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killing all its passengers at once.

00:16:37.833 --> 00:16:40.041
The entire city was shaken,

00:16:40.625 --> 00:16:44.708
as the emergence of the Phalangists
and their allies in this fierce, organized form,

00:16:45.125 --> 00:16:47.958
exposed Lebanon to
dangerous possibilities:

00:16:48.458 --> 00:16:51.708
either a bloody clash, or a division.

00:16:55.500 --> 00:16:58.250
The leaders of the resistance
made every possible effort

00:16:58.500 --> 00:17:01.083
to minimize the effects of
the Ain el-Rummaneh incident.

00:17:01.458 --> 00:17:05.250
That day, Abu Iyad, one of the leaders
of the Palestinian revolution, said,

00:17:06.041 --> 00:17:12.875
“From our side, we tried to contain
the reaction to this incident, hoping it would pass.

00:17:13.250 --> 00:17:18.041
But it seems that the bus
incident was an indication

00:17:18.166 --> 00:17:20.000
that the plot would continue."

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This was the harvest
of 18 months of fighting:

00:17:57.750 --> 00:18:01.458
Complete destruction of
all streets, markets and shops.

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In these areas, more than
1500 similar battles took place,

00:18:07.458 --> 00:18:10.041
which ended with the defeat
of the isolationist forces

00:18:10.208 --> 00:18:12.833
and the victory of the National Movement forces.

00:18:13.583 --> 00:18:15.000
Until then,

00:18:15.166 --> 00:18:18.541
the war had practically ended with
the victory of the National Movement,

00:18:18.708 --> 00:18:22.958
which was preparing to establish
a non-sectarian democratic system.

00:18:28.791 --> 00:18:30.916
But then the unthinkable happened.

00:18:41.583 --> 00:18:46.166
The Syrian army bombed the Zahrani
refinery and the port of Sidon,

00:18:46.250 --> 00:18:50.375
and this was repeated several times,
which struck the city with fear,

00:18:50.583 --> 00:18:55.291
and forced ships that supplied
the Lebanese people to flee.

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All this resulted in reversing
the situation in most areas.

00:19:01.250 --> 00:19:03.166
If not for this difficult situation,

00:19:03.458 --> 00:19:06.583
and this dispersion, which was
forced upon the joint forces,

00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.583
the isolationists would have not
been able to attack Tal al-Zaatar.

00:19:13.083 --> 00:19:15.416
The isolationists opened fire at the camp

00:19:15.583 --> 00:19:18.125
using all kinds of weapons and ammunition,

00:19:18.541 --> 00:19:23.500
and they tightly surrounded it from all sides,
using the high points around it,

00:19:24.291 --> 00:19:27.166
and thirteen artillery centers,

00:19:27.416 --> 00:19:30.666
combined with light
and heavy machine gun fire.

00:19:30.958 --> 00:19:33.250
Day and night, they ceaselessly
bombarded the camp.

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63 days without interruption.

00:19:38.208 --> 00:19:41.833
These barbaric Phalangist
and isolationist attacks on the camp

00:19:42.208 --> 00:19:44.125
provoked the Arabs and the whole world,

00:19:44.333 --> 00:19:47.083
and many international and Arab bodies,

00:19:47.333 --> 00:19:50.750
from the International
Red Cross, to the Arab League,

00:19:51.208 --> 00:19:55.458
intervened to help save its residents
from this continuous brutal attack.

00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:19.500
1980 Leipzig International Film Festival
Documentary section Grand Prix

00:20:19.500 --> 00:20:23.916
Produced by
Palestine Liberation Organization
”SAMED” Film Club

00:21:16.916 --> 00:21:20.833
Tokyo University Liberal Arts
Prof. Yuzo Itagaki
Middle East Modern History

00:21:21.583 --> 00:21:29.750
The reality is that the Palestinian people
are torn apart by various circumstances.

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But very broadly speaking, Palestinians,

00:21:35.208 --> 00:21:43.083
the people we normally
see in relation to the PLO,

00:21:43.208 --> 00:21:48.041
were expelled from Palestine by Israel

00:21:48.166 --> 00:21:54.583
and then dispersed to the surrounding
countries and around the world.

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There are also the Palestinians
who live in Israeli occupied territories

00:22:04.750 --> 00:22:12.125
that have been occupied
by Israel since the 1967 War,

00:22:12.208 --> 00:22:19.458
like the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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Third, even before the establishment
of the state of Israel in 1948,

00:22:25.375 --> 00:22:28.666
the Zionists had a policy
of systematically expelling

00:22:28.833 --> 00:22:33.416
as many Palestinians
as possible from Palestine,

00:22:33.583 --> 00:22:40.916
but they still could not expel all of them.

00:22:41.041 --> 00:22:46.541
And so, after the establishment
of the Israeli state,

00:22:46.666 --> 00:22:51.583
there are Palestinian Arabs
who remain in Israel.

00:23:26.083 --> 00:23:31.583
It can be said that it was because of this Parcel no. 9
that the battle of the Land Day started up.

00:23:33.291 --> 00:23:36.416
Parcel no.9 is there on the other side of the hill.

00:23:37.708 --> 00:23:42.041
This is the area of the plains and hills
where the southern mountains of Rama

00:23:42.500 --> 00:23:45.041
are linked from the Maghar Mountains.

00:23:46.625 --> 00:23:51.916
This area was named "Clear Jessie"
during the British Mandate,

00:23:52.166 --> 00:23:54.916
but is now cordoned off
by the Israeli Defense Minister

00:23:54.916 --> 00:23:57.458
under the guise of using
it for military exercises.

00:23:58.500 --> 00:24:03.083
But in reality, a settlement called
"Nahar Salomon" is being built.

00:25:19.958 --> 00:25:24.833
They surrounded the house and some
of the soldiers occupied the neighbor's house.

00:25:25.500 --> 00:25:31.375
One of them gave the order to burn
the house down and arrest anyone inside.

00:25:31.708 --> 00:25:33.291
In Hebrew, of course.

00:25:34.583 --> 00:25:37.791
Two or three dozen soldiers
broke intothe yard.

00:25:38.583 --> 00:25:42.125
I stood at the front door and said,
"You can’t enter this house.

00:25:42.166 --> 00:25:47.625
This is the mayor's house.
You need legal permission to enter any further.”

00:25:49.750 --> 00:25:52.750
It was a good thing that
none of the people in the house were home,

00:25:53.416 --> 00:25:56.541
but if anyone had been there,
the worst would have happened.

00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:17.458
Peace, peace.

00:26:17.916 --> 00:26:26.916
Oh, my brothers and sisters

00:26:27.791 --> 00:26:31.750
Peace, peace, peace
for friendship and solidarity.

00:26:32.583 --> 00:26:42.000
Peace, peace, for peace.

00:26:55.125 --> 00:26:59.083
Mayor of Nazareth, Mr. Tawfiq Zayyad
(Also a member of the Israeli parliament)

00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:04.958
The achievements of the
Land Day struggle were tremendous.

00:27:05.750 --> 00:27:06.875
First and foremost,

00:27:07.125 --> 00:27:13.416
the struggle united the forces
of the conscientious Arab population,

00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:17.833
who had suffered due to the oppression
of the Zionist powers, into one.

00:27:19.833 --> 00:27:23.166
At the same time,
the struggle strengthened solidarity

00:27:23.250 --> 00:27:28.791
between the democratic progressive
Jewish people, and our struggle for justice.

00:27:30.500 --> 00:27:32.458
Furthermore, the Land Day struggle

00:27:32.958 --> 00:27:36.458
exposed the criminal policies
that had been perpetrated

00:27:36.541 --> 00:27:39.083
against the Arab Palestinian masses.

00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:47.750
Arab Palestinians living in Israel
are supposed to be granted citizenship.

00:27:48.416 --> 00:27:53.875
If the Arab Palestinians and the
Israeli authorities cannot coexist peacefully,

00:27:54.208 --> 00:27:58.625
how can they coexist with the
people of neighboring Arab countries?

00:28:01.208 --> 00:28:05.041
This is precisely the question
that Land Day raised to the people of the world,

00:28:05.208 --> 00:28:09.416
and in particular to the
Jewish people of the whole world.

00:28:58.458 --> 00:29:03.958
The future is on our side

00:29:04.625 --> 00:29:06.500
and sooner or later,

00:29:07.208 --> 00:29:11.666
we will have our full rights,

00:29:12.041 --> 00:29:16.166
and the refugees who are now living abroad

00:29:18.041 --> 00:29:22.666
will come back to their homes in Palestine.

00:29:23.291 --> 00:29:27.333
-You said that time is on the Arabs’ side. Why?

00:29:28.041 --> 00:29:32.000
-The Arabs nowadays own the oil

00:29:33.458 --> 00:29:34.458
and the money.

00:29:34.958 --> 00:29:41.458
And with time, they will know how
to use these two weapons.

00:29:59.541 --> 00:30:02.958
As a consequence of the 1973 war,

00:30:03.458 --> 00:30:06.916
Arab states cut oil supplies

00:30:07.375 --> 00:30:12.416
to pressure the Americans and
intervene with Israel and stop the war.

00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:16.541
But Americans turned a blind eye,

00:30:16.708 --> 00:30:19.208
and kept their fuel reserve,

00:30:19.208 --> 00:30:22.541
which led to a global oil crisis.

00:30:23.416 --> 00:30:28.416
One of the hardest hit was
the growing Japanese economy.

00:30:28.833 --> 00:30:32.500
This opened a door for
considering a friendly relationship

00:30:33.208 --> 00:30:41.958
with the Arab states at the
official level, including the PLO.

00:30:50.291 --> 00:30:57.708
the PLO Tokyo office steadily stood by,
along with other embassies in the region.

00:30:58.083 --> 00:31:03.500
On February 1st, 1978, PLO Tokyo Office,
marked the first anniversary of its opening.

00:31:08.583 --> 00:31:13.291
The office had become a home
for our activities and collections.

00:31:13.750 --> 00:31:18.458
Several screenings were
organized across Japan,

00:31:18.541 --> 00:31:23.250
painting an image of the
Palestinians and their right to struggle.

00:31:59.041 --> 00:32:05.000
This fall, the UN General Assembly
was unusually heated over the Palestinian issue.

00:32:15.333 --> 00:32:21.833
Chairman Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization
appears to a welcoming applause.

00:32:23.291 --> 00:32:26.125
He is backed by united support of the Arab states,

00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:31.875
which have rapidly gained a voice
since the Fourth Middle East War (the October War).

00:32:32.875 --> 00:32:34.500
Mr. President,

00:32:35.833 --> 00:32:36.750
war...

00:32:38.083 --> 00:32:40.916
war breaks out from Palestine.

00:32:42.041 --> 00:32:43.041
And peace...

00:32:43.541 --> 00:32:48.166
peace starts from Palestine,
thank you.

00:33:25.791 --> 00:33:28.583
The Japanese people, if asked to,

00:33:28.666 --> 00:33:35.041
might answer that they support
the legitimate right of the Palestinian people.

00:33:35.583 --> 00:33:41.333
They do not, however, have
strong feelings–at least so far.

00:33:42.166 --> 00:33:44.125
During my stay in Beirut

00:33:44.291 --> 00:33:47.041
as a correspondent
for a Japanese newspaper,

00:33:47.291 --> 00:33:51.750
many representatives of the various
Japanese political parties came there

00:33:52.333 --> 00:33:57.125
to express their support for
establishing a PLO Office in Tokyo.

00:33:57.916 --> 00:34:02.500
However, now I find that
the support is not strong.

00:34:03.083 --> 00:34:04.708
Surprisingly enough,

00:34:04.875 --> 00:34:09.833
the former chairman of the Socialist
Democratic Party, Mr. Ikkō Kasuga,

00:34:10.125 --> 00:34:15.333
recently became the chairman
of the Japan-Israel Friendship Association.

00:34:16.708 --> 00:34:18.916
It is, however, also true

00:34:19.166 --> 00:34:25.458
the numbers of Japanese supporting
the Palestinian rights is increasing.

00:34:26.041 --> 00:34:32.541
Activities in support of
the PLO Tokyo Office, are expanding.

00:34:32.958 --> 00:34:41.791
It will take some time for the Japanese to develop
a feeling of solidarity with Palestinian people.

00:34:42.125 --> 00:34:43.541
But I am sure

00:34:44.041 --> 00:34:51.541
the Japanese movement supporting
the establishment of a Palestinian state

00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:55.875
will increase in power year by year.

00:35:18.583 --> 00:35:25.083
After 1967, the Israeli forces occupied Kuneitra,

00:35:25.708 --> 00:35:31.791
and they methodically destroyed
the city with dynamite and bulldozers,

00:35:32.083 --> 00:35:36.916
When a disengagement agreement was
signed between Syrian and Israeli armies,

00:35:37.291 --> 00:35:43.458
the United Nations came in
to find the city completely levelled.

00:35:44.750 --> 00:35:50.875
Mrs. Widad Nassif, herself
a Palestinian refugee of 1948,

00:35:51.666 --> 00:35:59.916
is one of 10 Kuneitrans who lived
under nearly 7 years of Israeli occupation.

00:36:00.416 --> 00:36:04.375
She talks with English journalist Kathleen Phipps.

00:36:05.458 --> 00:36:11.791
-How and when was the city of Kuneitra destroyed?
How did it become like it is today?

00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:18.708
-Well, they started destroying bits,
and during the seven years little bits,

00:36:18.875 --> 00:36:25.583
and sometimes pulled down the houses
to build reinforcements and shelters.

00:36:25.750 --> 00:36:29.125
And then little by little,
they sold the rest.

00:36:29.500 --> 00:36:34.416
They threw everything out
and they burned many things;

00:36:34.875 --> 00:36:38.375
All the furniture and things,
they used to burn them up.

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And then they took what they took
and they left what they left.

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And little by little the whole town was emptied.

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And then when they decided to leave,
they started pulling down everything.

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They got bulldozers and
they pulled down everything.

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They worked at it from morning till night,

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till they pulled down whole houses.
There was nothing left.

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And if the bulldozer wasn’t
enough, they’d blow it up.

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And then when they really pulled down
what you see now,

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they pulled it down in three days.

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-In three days?

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-They didn’t leave anything at all, at all, at all.

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-You are an Arab Christian?
-Yes.

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-What happened to the
religious institutions and buildings

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during the war and occupation?

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-Well, they just did to the churches
what they did to the rest of the houses.

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The Protestant church was destroyed.

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I mean they just treated it like everything else.
In words, no, but in deeds, yes.

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-Even the mosques, too, were looted.
Nothing was left. They stole everything.

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They just left the walls standing, that’s all.

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And then during the October War they bombarded
the minaret as you see it half destroyed,

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and the mosque itself was destroyed.

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And the second minaret here was destroyed,
but they had no more time to destroy more

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because then they were
driven away in the October War.

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And it is as you see it now, standing just as it is.

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-Also, that there was a certain
amount of damage to the graves?

00:38:58.416 --> 00:39:01.541
-Oh yes, yes, I heard.

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I was told that they turnedthe graves upside-down
and they stole, I don’t know…

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Horrible things they did. I didn’t allow them
to tell me more because I didn’t like to hear it.

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I mean it's so awful, it's so terrible.
You didn’t hear such things in our day

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And they call themselves civilized.

00:39:21.541 --> 00:39:23.666
I mean, it’s anything but…

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Even a savage wouldn’t do
what they did to the graves here.

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-And what do you think now
should be done with Kuneitra?

00:39:48.333 --> 00:39:51.916
-Nothing, it should remain as it is. That’s all.

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-Totally destroyed?
-Completely left alone.

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It’s a wonderful situation.

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I mean, it can speak for itself.
It doesn’t need anyone to explain, you see?

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When you leave it as it is,

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then you can understand
to what extent they have gone.

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And this is here, but in Palestine,
they completely...

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they don’t leave a sign
of a town or a village or anything.

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-So you want Kuneitra to
remain as a kind of monument?

00:40:24.583 --> 00:40:28.583
-Yes, I do. I do. I think it
would be a wonderful monument.

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We should leave it because you
see the Arabs are so good-natured,

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they quickly forget the wickedness of others.

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They should be kept reminded of what
can happen to them if they go to sleep again.

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With the arrival of President Arafat at the United Nations,

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the tension in Israel's border areas increased.

00:41:10.375 --> 00:41:11.750
There is a constant struggle between the guerrillas,

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who are breathing life into the situation,
and Israel, which is increasingly fighting back.

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Nabatieh camp in South Lebanon.

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Only 12 kilometers from the border with Israel,

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the camp was destroyed beyond recognition
by Israeli military bombing last June.

00:41:49.458 --> 00:41:54.458
The Israelis bombed these camps again last month,

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claiming that they were guerrilla strongholds.

00:42:12.416 --> 00:42:13.791
In two attacks,

00:42:14.500 --> 00:42:18.208
400 of the 5,000 refugees were killed.

00:42:19.708 --> 00:42:24.500
The bodies are still buried under the rubble.

00:42:59.708 --> 00:43:03.125
They are always within the landscape,

00:43:04.083 --> 00:43:12.958
the south, the snow peaks,
the wide valleys, the far, yet near villages,

00:43:13.958 --> 00:43:19.625
and the wild herbs that sprout
from the soil are about to grow.

00:43:20.708 --> 00:43:24.583
They are always within the landscape;

00:43:25.333 --> 00:43:31.291
They appear suddenly on the
narrow streets extending to the borders,

00:43:31.583 --> 00:43:36.458
then disappear within
the olive trees, merging with them.

00:43:37.083 --> 00:43:39.125
They do not have a house,

00:43:39.250 --> 00:43:42.333
the mountain rocks know them as traps,

00:43:42.750 --> 00:43:49.625
and the roads know them,
young people, raised heads, ready to fight.

00:43:49.791 --> 00:43:56.958
Olive trunks know them as well, as
a man resting his head, relaxing a little,

00:43:57.291 --> 00:43:59.000
and dreaming of home.

00:43:59.291 --> 00:44:03.041
Unified Media
Palestinian Cinema Institute - Palestine Films

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Kufr Shuba

00:44:42.333 --> 00:44:46.541
Lebanese citizen fighting
with the Palestinian Revolution

00:44:46.541 --> 00:44:50.666
Any political work cannot be consolidated
without armed operations.

00:44:50.750 --> 00:44:57.041
Indeed, following Abu Ammar’s presence
at the United Nations,

00:44:57.291 --> 00:44:59.750
Intifadas spread in the occupied West Bank

00:44:59.791 --> 00:45:01.291
through which the Palestinian people
confirmed

00:45:01.625 --> 00:45:04.958
the Palestine Liberation Organization
as their sole representative,

00:45:06.375 --> 00:45:13.416
and that they will not be subjected
to Israeli occupation permanently.

00:45:19.250 --> 00:45:23.166
One of the steadfast Fidayeen
in Kufr Shuba said to me,

00:45:24.875 --> 00:45:26.833
“After years of experience,

00:45:27.375 --> 00:45:34.625
we are now able to predict
where the rockets will drop

00:45:35.041 --> 00:45:36.791
only by their sound while still in air.

00:45:37.041 --> 00:45:42.583
And this is why we are not so bothered
by enemy rockets."

00:50:38.916 --> 00:50:41.833
…But for the Palestinians who lost everything,

00:50:41.958 --> 00:50:45.333
they are ready to do anything to save their country.

00:50:45.666 --> 00:50:50.541
We do not fight for the sake of fighting,
we do not want war for the sake of war,

00:50:50.791 --> 00:50:53.291
but we want the world to know
that we have a cause.

00:50:53.500 --> 00:50:57.833
We are one and a half million
refugees living in the camps,

00:50:58.083 --> 00:51:01.416
one million refugees living under occupation:

00:51:01.666 --> 00:51:04.416
our mothers, our sisters, our families.

00:51:04.625 --> 00:51:09.208
We have been attacked brutally
by a savage movement called Zionism.

00:51:09.500 --> 00:51:13.208
We have to reveal this
movement to the whole world.

00:51:13.333 --> 00:51:18.416
And we fundamentally differentiate
between Jews and Zionists.

00:51:18.833 --> 00:51:21.833
We hope to save the Jews from Zionists,

00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:27.583
and make a Palestinian democratic state
where we can live with the Jews in peace and in love.

00:55:21.916 --> 00:55:24.833
-After the Middle East conflict in June 1967,

00:55:24.958 --> 00:55:28.958
the entire area west of the Jordan River
was under Israeli occupation.

00:55:29.375 --> 00:55:34.791
Since the borders were sealed,
I could no longer return to my own country.

00:55:35.333 --> 00:55:38.333
I had no choice, so I am now
attending a university in Amman.

00:55:38.916 --> 00:55:42.958
-I, for example, have a much stronger sense
of responsibility because of that war.

00:55:43.291 --> 00:55:48.583
I feel that I must do something
for my family and my country,

00:55:49.041 --> 00:55:53.625
and I feel that I must stand up for my country,
even if it means giving myself up.

00:55:53.833 --> 00:55:58.583
-I am determined to devote my life
to the restoration of my country.

00:55:58.916 --> 00:56:04.916
There is nothing else I would rather do.
It is my duty to restore my country.

00:56:05.333 --> 00:56:11.416
-Yes, for human beings to be happy,
we must first have peace.

00:56:11.875 --> 00:56:15.708
Only when we have peace
can our rights be restored.

00:56:16.250 --> 00:56:18.791
I don't think it can be given.

00:56:30.041 --> 00:56:33.291
Until June 5, 1967,

00:56:33.916 --> 00:56:40.375
the east and west banks of the Jordan River
were both part of the Kingdom of Jordan.

00:56:44.833 --> 00:56:50.250
However, this river has now become
the border line dividing the two countries,

00:56:50.458 --> 00:56:53.416
with Israel to the west and Jordan to the east.

00:57:00.291 --> 00:57:04.458
A wave of refugees continues from the west
to the east of the Jordan River.

00:57:05.125 --> 00:57:09.833
For many of them,
this was their second evacuation.

00:57:11.250 --> 00:57:14.000
People went along the beaches
and over the hills,

00:57:14.208 --> 00:57:18.666
leaving behind cities, towns and villages
such as Haifa, Jaffa, and Acre.

00:57:19.500 --> 00:57:24.291
Many are scattered across the Jordan Valley,
leaving behind historically venerable lands

00:57:24.625 --> 00:57:27.916
such as Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

00:57:29.250 --> 00:57:34.083
By June of that year,
the number is said to have reached 200,000.

00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:38.375
However, it was impossible
to know the true number.

00:57:45.333 --> 00:57:50.000
People's faces were covered
with shock, fear, and confusion.

00:57:51.208 --> 00:57:53.666
Many of these people,
who had to abandon their homes twice

00:57:53.791 --> 00:57:57.375
in an attempt to protect
their own children from the war,

00:57:57.666 --> 00:58:00.625
continued to flee eastward.

00:58:10.083 --> 00:58:15.416
The camp, located about 30 kilometers
into the desert near the Syrian border,

00:58:16.083 --> 00:58:18.083
is called "Wadi Dalil".

00:58:18.875 --> 00:58:22.583
The name is Arabic for the valley
of those who have lost their country.

00:58:26.166 --> 00:58:30.000
Even here, the construction of tents
could not keep up with the number of refugees.

00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:19.125
Many people complained of having scary dreams.

00:59:19.583 --> 00:59:23.958
I also had patients who suffer
from headaches for no reason.

00:59:25.583 --> 00:59:27.958
I think it's a neurological cause, in my opinion.

00:59:27.958 --> 00:59:32.000
Anyway, you are looking at the land
where you were born and raised,

00:59:32.333 --> 00:59:35.041
and you are deprived of
the freedom to return there.

00:59:36.916 --> 00:59:42.458
I think they are fighting against a lot of stress.

01:00:02.416 --> 01:00:05.500
The camp was created
as a result of the conflict in 1948,

01:00:05.958 --> 01:00:10.583
when the State of Israel
was established in Palestine.

01:00:11.875 --> 01:00:14.208
Arabs in Palestine took refuge here

01:00:14.458 --> 01:00:18.833
in what was then Jordanian territory
and established a camp.

01:01:26.875 --> 01:01:30.000
The story really begins in 1917.

01:01:44.708 --> 01:01:48.708
General Sir Edmund Allenby
led his victorious army into Jerusalem

01:01:48.916 --> 01:01:52.583
to liberate the people,
it was said, from Turkish domination.

01:01:53.166 --> 01:01:58.208
In Britain, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour,
under pressure from Zionism,

01:01:58.333 --> 01:02:03.041
and without any legal or moral right,
promised in a letter to Lord Rothschild,

01:02:03.208 --> 01:02:08.041
Britain’s support for the establishment in Palestine
of a national home for the Jewish people,

01:02:08.666 --> 01:02:11.291
without consulting the existing Arab population.

01:02:21.041 --> 01:02:25.666
By the middle 30’s, the rising tide of Jewish
immigration had increased the tension.

01:02:26.333 --> 01:02:30.250
The Arab leadership in Jerusalem
felt that twenty years of broken promises

01:02:30.625 --> 01:02:34.500
and the ever-growing threat of dispossession
called for strong action.

01:02:35.125 --> 01:02:37.666
An armed rebellion and strike were organized,

01:02:37.875 --> 01:02:42.875
and once again the streets of Palestine’s
major cities were filled with rioting crowds.

01:02:47.750 --> 01:02:52.708
Then, the second World War, and with it
the hordes of survivors from Hitler’s Europe.

01:02:53.500 --> 01:02:56.916
The Arabs, the only people
in the so-called civilized world

01:02:56.958 --> 01:02:59.041
never to have persecuted the Jews,

01:02:59.125 --> 01:03:03.166
were now expected to pay the
price of persecution elsewhere.

01:03:06.958 --> 01:03:12.041
Haifa Oil Depot, bombed
by Zionist terrorists in April 1947.

01:03:14.625 --> 01:03:19.875
Bombs destroyed trains and roads
and disrupted many of Palestine’s basic services,

01:03:20.333 --> 01:03:22.958
and the British were losing
their power to retaliate.

01:03:23.750 --> 01:03:27.833
Palestine was in flames,
and the path to tragedy was cleared.

01:03:27.833 --> 01:03:30.541
Scenes from the Occupation
in Gaza

01:03:31.125 --> 01:03:33.916
Kufr Shuba

01:03:33.916 --> 01:03:38.583
War in Lebanon

01:03:40.416 --> 01:03:43.583
This collection of 20 films has been
accumulating for the past years

01:03:43.916 --> 01:03:47.250
in different places in Tokyo,

01:03:47.541 --> 01:03:53.208
documenting the struggle
of the Palestinian people

01:03:53.458 --> 01:04:00.708
against the Zionist colonial project
since the early 20th century until today.

01:04:03.125 --> 01:04:08.708
The Palestine Japan solidarity
movement has been screening these films

01:04:09.333 --> 01:04:12.541
to Japanese audiences as part
of our political education program

01:04:12.958 --> 01:04:14.833
to mobilize Japanese people,

01:04:15.958 --> 01:04:19.958
and to rethink alternative political practices,

01:04:20.208 --> 01:04:25.583
in the face of our own anti-social politics.

01:04:38.458 --> 01:04:42.833
From Sabra to Shatilla;
to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

01:04:43.375 --> 01:04:47.625
The Palestinian and Japanese
people share similar pains,

01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:50.791
similar memories of oppression,

01:04:51.416 --> 01:04:53.333
have the same struggle

01:04:53.666 --> 01:04:56.208
against the same enemy.

01:04:57.291 --> 01:05:00.750
And until the next stand,

01:05:01.333 --> 01:05:06.041
we present this film
as a gesture of solidarity

01:05:06.333 --> 01:05:08.875
with the Palestinian people.

01:05:09.416 --> 01:05:14.833
Keeping safe these images,
sounds, reels...

01:05:15.791 --> 01:05:17.750
until victory...