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Voland · #1 (**permalink**) 12-15-2008

I wanted to post this link, because i think it is worth watching.
"The heart of Jenin" is a moving israeli/ german documentary (2008) about a palestinian father from the refugee camp of Jenin on the West Bank, whose son is mistakenly shot by israeli soldiers at the age of twelve. In spite of his grieve, and having fought against Israel himself earlier in his life the father decides to follow a doctors plea to donate his sons inner organs to sick israeli children and save their lives, because "children can never be my enemies", he says in one scene. In the movie he is going on a journey through Israel to visit the children who now live with his sons heart, liver and kidneys, from the lebanese border through Jerusalem till a bedouin village in the Negev. We are led to people that have , also through the fate of their children, learnt to overcome their prejudices and others who whine about the misfortune of having to live with an arab organ.
And it is also a movie about how a human gesture can bridge the great political divide for a moment.........

the heart of jenin - Google Video

heart of jenin - Google Video

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Imperator · #2 (**permalink**) 12-15-2008

I wouldn't mind watching it, it appears well made so to speak for an indie prodcution. I wonder if that could be gotten on dvd?

Voland · #3 (**permalink**) 12-15-2008

You got at least 47 minutes of it on google video.....

DoctorsBill · #4 (**permalink**) 12-15-2008

This is encouraging. One of the reasons the Palestinian father is at peace with his sons legacy is probably because he realizes, being as close to the situation as he was, that his son wasn't actually killed by Israeli soldiers:

Hot Air » Blog Archive » French court rejects Al-Dura hoax

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On September 30, 2000, France2’s Middle East correspondent, Charles Enderlin, ran footage of what looked like a boy and his father, together hiding behind a barrel, “the target of fire coming from the Israeli position.” According to this report, the boy was killed and the father badly wounded.

France2’s legal maneuver backfired when they were called to show the court the raw footage of their Palestinian cameraman, Talal abu Rahmah, whose camera work and testimony lie at the heart of the accusation against the Israeli army. They found themselves forced to cut the most embarrassing scenes before showing the footage to the court, and to explain to the court why the remaining footage had so many suspicious scenes.

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Photographic evidence from three cameramen show the boy and father behind the barrel well before the shooting begins, suggesting a much greater probability that they were deliberately placed there, rather than chance pedestrians caught in a crossfire.

Bullet direction suggests setting the scene for filming. (Scenario 3)

At funeral, the mourners already have posters of the boy: In order for them to have this, they would have had to go to his home in El-Bureij, get a picture, make the poster and copy it for distribution all in approximately one to two hours. In the meantime, his mother claims that she didn't find out about his death until the later evening news.

Voland · #5 (**permalink**) 12-16-2008

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Originally Posted by DoctorsBill

This is encouraging. One of the reasons the Palestinian father is at peace with his sons legacy is probably because he realizes, being as close to the situation as he was, that his son wasn't actually killed by Israeli soldiers:

Hot Air » Blog Archive » French court rejects Al-Dura hoax

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I do not disagree with your post, but its about a completely different case

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