Hamas: Behind the Mask

This one-hour journalistic exploration by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Shelley Saywell takes the viewer beyond the headlines and into the daunting, determined minds and hearts of Hamas, a movement formed in 1987 with one declared aim - to destroy the hard-won New State of Israel through Jihad: through applied resistance to Israel's occupation of what Palestinians perceived - and perceive - as their ancestral land.

Saywell and her small, two-person crew spent many months securing unprecedented access to not only the current leaders of Hamas, but also to one-on-one interviews with insightful, knowledgeable Israelis and Palestinians not often heard from. A crucially important resource was consultant Olivia Ward, a veteran Toronto Star journalist whose intimate knowledge of, and credibility within, the region proved invaluable.

Hamas: Behind the Mask captures Hamas at a transformative moment in its relatively short history, when in process of shifting from an internationally-condemned terrorist organization that has claimed many Israeli lives to a legitimate contender for popular political status on that same world stage.

In Saywell's Behind the Mask there are no clearly identifiable monsters: only competing claimants to a harshly, passionately contested strip of land. Viewers may find themselves shedding tears for all those claimants, here: both hopeful Jewish Israelis who have seen those hopes of peace and security in the promised land dashed, and Palestinians who feel marginalized, disenfranchised and betrayed.

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News & Politics

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• Hamas
• Isreal
• Palestine
• war
• fighting
• assasination

[freedomfighter84]

Hamas is the result of the occupation.

[yanemorg]

u witnessed women bieng raped for votes,who are u? and why do u poison ppl minds with such pethatic lies! ur a jew i know u are without knowing u,Hamas is Allah fate to protect the holy land form u and ur ppl.

Since jews took jerusalem gay parades started there,alcohol.prostitution,gam­bling,And Allah Almighty has chosen Plestinian to bear the word and clean the holyland from all sins and evil. May Allah Be With You Hamas As Long As u hamas be with Allah,Amin

[99N92]

No to Israel

Yes to Hamas

Israel = Terrorists

Hamas = Freedom fighters

[OneManWolfPak]

@yanemorg ..Allah? whos allah, hey is he the guy who owns the pizza shop at the top of my street?? i know that guy, it seems like hes always angry for some reason but he makes great pizza. i just wish he'd shower or change his shirt or something, that dude sweats like a camel even in the winter.

[itaymr]

@freedomfighter84 occupation of a land that never existed?

[yakikaki]

SEND FLOTILLAS TO FREE GILAD SHALIT, WHICH IS BEING HELD ILLIGALY BY THE HAMAS TERRORIST ORGANISATION......

[peanuts8]

did you know that palestinian men hate black women and they have sex with them and then throw them away like trash!!! arabs call black ppl COON DOGS just wanted to share that with everyone here! i love you guys!

[ninaquero]

I have major political differences with Hamas leaders, but to call their militants "cowards", when they have the guts to confont one of the world's top miltary forces, the IDF, which are militarily, technollogically and financially aided by the world's superpower, the USA, is really absurd. And it may be tragic for zionists, because they are overlooking one item critical in combat strategy: the human soul.

[KuKu7375151]

Dont blame the people/relgion blame the poltical goverments of both sides

i am not side with israel nor palastine but on wat i am sided is tht in this world we all are made as 1 no matter what religon/country @ last we all 1