Jerusalem's Land Wars - Israel/Palestine

June 1997
This shocking film takes us to the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict over land ownership in Palestinian East Jerusalem. A powerful insight into the story behind the story.

Palestinian claims that homes are being bulldozed by Jews are poisoning peace efforts around Jerusalem. "God don't bless them", screams a middle aged Arab woman. Her house is being forcibly demolished in front of her eyes after she was accused of illegally building extra rooms. Despite a planned court hearing Israeli soldiers refuse to wait and the bulldozers begin smashing down the walls. "This is not good government" shouts a neighbour at soldiers standing nearby. A court injunction finally stops the demolition but already several rooms are just rubble. Mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, is overseeing a massive building Program of new Jewish settlements, the most contentious is Har Homa. Olmert promises the Jewish building Program will continue. Near the disputed Old City armed guards protect Jewish residents. Hussam Jweihan refused to sell to Jewish buyers; now an armed Israeli guard is paid to watch him. An Arab landowner claims her tenant 'sold' her property to Jews , a move upheld by the courts. The new Jewish owner swears that she has a God-given right to be there. This subtle war breeds ever more tension between Jews and Arabs.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[adlsp]

@arshi5,

What you are really saying is "Long Live Israel Forever" --- Palestine was the name the Romans gave Judah (ancient Israel) after the 2nd revolt....and Palestine was never a sovereign nation ever. The original Palestine was all Jews. You guys hijacked the name "Palestine" and the truthe will come out. Your whole argument is built on a foundation of untruths and lies...sooner or later the whole deck of cards collapses.

[neverfearchrisishere]

@adlsp Your claiming that a 2000 year old land claim is at all relavent - is insane. By following such logic, almost the entire population of america could legitimatly be evicted.

Prey tell - which era in history should the worlds borders be reverted too? Precisely which people is it acceptable to round up and put into camps since they don't have the right to live on there families land anymore.

The TRUTH that the 'palistinians' likely have better blood ties to those 2000 year old Jews than u.

[MultiMohdrizwan123]

basterd jews.the holy is only palitinis.plz free palistinis.one god punsd jews soon



[demarcos69]

nuke the entire site...problem solved for both sides

[Spiritflier07]

@CruzanRastamon It's the 70million evangelical christian votes they would lose. They support Israel no matter the crime because they think that it means they are soon going to get whisked out of here. They believe the Jews are going to rebuild the temple and then the anti-Messiah will take over and reign from it causing destruction on the earth. So they fund heavily the Zionist movement believing it will make the "rapture" ( a non-existant event made up in their hive minds). happen..

[Spiritflier07]

@cholent770 like any good zionist you bare your teeth and growl out name-calling like a kindergartener. no reason...just hissing poison.

[cholent770]

@Spiritflier07 idiot what do u need a historian to tell you this it happened less then a hundred years ago. and find out what keren kayemet charity boxes were for. oh and fyi ahmadinijad also claims 911 never happened

[Spiritflier07]

@cholent770 Illan Pape a Jewish Historian tells you from the Zionists own records that is a lie.

[Spiritflier07]

@Jewtino Your obviously a zionist propagandist. You name one nation or people that hasn't sinned? You pick out the work of some bandits and paint that as your reason for nearly 70 years of oppression? There isn't one...and that does NOT give zionists an excuse to torture, maim, and imprison millions of Palestinians.

[Jewtino]

@Spiritflier07 Just like how the Muslim Arabs exterminated the indigenous pre-zionist Jewish population like in Safed in 1834 before Zionism was even conceived.

[Spiritflier07]

@Jewtino Illan Pape has already exposed your lies and the lies of your government. The Irgun and Haganah committed an attempt at ethnic cleansing and the Arabs fought back......they were run off just like Hitler tried to run off the Jews on the night of kristallnacht.

[Jewtino]

She completely lies, Jews WERE NOT LEFT IN PEACE BEFORE ZIONISM OR 1948. There were hundreds of massacres ONLY A MUSLIM FILTH PIG WHORE would deny that!