Occupation Has No Future: Militarism + Resistance in Israel/Palestine -- Trailer

In the Fall of 2009 a group of US veterans and war resisters traveled to Israel/Palestine to meet with their Israeli counterparts in an effort to strengthen connections and share experiences. "Occupation Has No Future" uses this trip as a lens to study Israeli militarism, examine the occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, and explore the work of Israelis and Palestinians working against militarism and occupation.

Through conversations with Israeli conscientious objectors, former soldiers, and Palestinians living under occupation, the film creates a survey of the current atmosphere in the State of Israel and the West Bank. It explores the Israeli social environment that creates such heightened militarism and leads to attitudes of fear, exclusion, racism, and ultimately aggression; and examines the consequences of Israeli policies both for the Palestinian people as well as Israeli civil society.

Additionally this documentary looks at the Israeli anti-militarist movement and those Israeli youth refusing conscription, refusing orders, and choosing to partner with a growing grassroots Palestinian campaign of civil disobedience to defeat the occupation. Honest about the extremely daunting challenges, "Occupation Has No Future" ultimately tracks the hope of a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians to live together, free from occupation, with peace and justice.

Coming December 2010

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[chestyfalla]

Awesome it's great to know that there are great people in Israel fighting for peace.

[billbb46]

We are here and now, not 50 or 2000 or 5000 years ago. For the good of all, we must find a just solution. Instead, the fundamentalists of both sides are in alliance and perpetuate the hatred and violence. We can reject their hatred, their violence, and hew peace from the hopes and possibilities that live in the people's hearts.

[yaeli1967]

I am not sure why you think 6 decades trumps 2000 years, let’s chat again some 1940 years later, and see if you still feel this way. The Palestinian refugee is defined by UNRWA as a person: “whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict” The 2 years can’t trump 6 decades that the Jews of Israel lived there, if we use your argument.

[Janba32]

@yaeli1967 I have no problem with you "returning " as long as you do not deny the same right to those whose parents and grandparents were born there and who were dispossessed of their homes and lands thousands of of years after your ancestors. Their dispossession goes back to 1948 and 1967. I think that 6 decades trumps 2000 years.

As for me I long ago gave up my so-called "right of return." I would no more want to live in Israel than I would have lived in apartheid South Africa..

[yaeli1967]

@Janba32  Wow, you are such a racist. So if I have whiter skin I have no right to return to the land of my ancestors?

[TheMakeChange]

Isn't Telling the truth anti-semitic according the Israeli perception?

[GetzelCatfish]

what about the dishwasher in the restaurant u just ate in? him his latin-american wife, no greencard whats up with THAT???



[Janba32]

The Jews from Europe have far less right to the land than do  Palestinians who have been on the land for generations & who were driven out so that Jews could take over their lands. Because Jews were there 2000 years ago and kept a small presence over the years does not mean that Jews own the land. The Bible is not a deed for a land grab.

When European Zios decided to go for a homeland in Palestine Jews comprised less than 6% of the population - not white Ashkenazi but dark skinned Sephardics.

[fuzzywzhe]

@SpankMeNasty "The natives of this area are the peoples of the12 tribes of Israel "

No the they aren't. The Jews you are talking about are white skinned Europeans and Russians. They aren't natives.

At the VERY BEST, they have a tenuous connection to the area. Some of them MIGHT have a few ancestors from 80 GENERATIONS ago that lived there, when the EXTINCT Roman empire kicked them out but it's hardly an over-riding characteristic, which is why they look mostly Europeans, and not Arabs.

[SpankMeNasty]

@fuzzywzhe The natives of this area are the peoples of the12 tribes of Israel (Hebrews) who were there nearly 1000 years (before the Romans renamed the area Syria-Palestina). They maintained a near continual presence (except for the Assyrian and Babylonian exile) in this area up to the founding of the modern state of Israel. All Jews are traditionaly descendents of the Tribe of Judah and thus qualifies them as natives.