Blood & Tears – The Arab-Israeli Conflict (THINKFilm)
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The
Middle East situation is so bad that the media has blurred the facts to the
point that it is like watching the same footage all the time, distancing those
who need to understand it the most at the worst possible time. Isidore Rosmarin’s remarkable Blood & Tears – The Arab-Israeli
Conflict (2006) spells out the history, the detail and is uncanny in asking
every major, important question one could ask and needs to know about the awful
situation.
Running
only 75 minutes, which is time very well spent in this case, we learn the
origins of the conflict, starting with two different Semite religions, the rise
of Israel after WWII, the rise of Arabs post Lawrence and how Palestinians have
been actually put in the middle. We then
see the rise of extremism on all sides, the best efforts to stop the killing
and how some forces would rather see millions die than have peace, especially
if they are making money on the dead.
All dies
bear some responsibility, but as I watched, the question that PC types seem to
censor is if Arab nations are so concerned and worried about Palestinians, why
have they not invited then on the vast lands they own going unused until this
can be resolved? Because Islamo-Fascism
is more important than principle? Israel
and some Palestinian leaders bravely tried to fix things, but without pointing
fingers, this work shows that this all should have been resolved by now.
The 1.78 X
1 image varies throughout due to the wildly varying nature of all kinds of
archival footage, much of which is not seen often, but the transfer does its
best to resolve this just the same. The
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo suffers the same thing through wildly varying audio
quality, though the editing does what it can to fix things. Extras include trailers for this and other
THINKFilm releases, plus bonus interview footage. Don’t miss any of it!
- Nicholas Sheffo
