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Who knows if Israeli officers support what they're doing. They get orders and obey. They're replicated daily throughout Palestine. Bil'in reflects occupation hell.
Burnat and Davidi gave views "no moments of respite or reprieve." Their "probing documentary" is riveting and hard to watch. Doing so reveals ruthless repression up close and personal.
It's one thing watching. It's much different living it daily in multiple communities and villages. In late September, the film aired at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. It's won numerous international prizes. Israel's Channel 8 broadcast it.
"This documentary should make every decent Israeli ashamed of being an Israeli. It should be shown in civics classes and heritage classes.""The Israelis should know, at long last, what is being done in their name every day and every night in this ostensible time of no terror. Even in a West Bank village like Bil'in, which has made nonviolence its motto."
"The soldiers - the friends of our sons and the sons of our friends - break into homes in order to abduct small children, who may be suspected of throwing stones."
"There is no other way to describe this. They also arrest dozens of the organizers of the popular weekly protest at Bil'in. And this happens every night."
Battleground Bil'in best describes what villagers live through daily. Levy spent time there. He witnessed its protests and funerals. Once or twice he participated during Friday demonstrations.
He experienced stinging (at times toxic) tear gas and stinking skunk water. He saw rubber bullets fired at point blank range. They injure and sometimes kill. Institutional violence targets peaceful protesters.
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