Above is a trailer for an upcoming documentary from Max Blumenthal and the exciting new website The Daily Nuisance. It is the culmination of the work that Blumenthal and others have been doing to cover an important story not being told in the press here in the US - Israel's repression towards dissent and its non-Jewish citizens. I look forward to the finished product.
You folks are breaking a sound barriers. We are right behind you.
When Israel starts to abide by International agreements and stops expanding settlements etc. Israel will be a much stronger and more peaceful country for all.
This greater Israel thing….always expanding the borders is just not working
Max, phenomenal looking piece of work. You are the documentarian of the most important development in world politics since the 1920s: the Spartanization of Israeli society. Those of us who were too born too late even to imagine Italian society in the 1920s or German society in the 1930s finally have a chance to see how exactly it is that democracy descends and devolves into totalitarianism.
Amazing work.
I guess five minutes of snippets is a documentary.
I guess you forgot to read the information under the video.
We can get to this point some other time Witty (what a documentary is) after you figure out how to converse on a subject.
Richard, it may very well be that what Max managed to convey in those 5 minutes has gotten under your skin. Just imagine what MB’s full-length documentary is going to convey . . . everything the MSM refuses to show Americans . . . and how their $3 billion a year in tax dollars is being deployed. Disturbing stuff, huh?
This looks very promising. Minus the interviews, the documentary looks to contain footage most of us have seen before, but it will be striking nonetheless to see it altogether with fresh content and analysis. More importantly, having something like this to disseminate to the public will prove invaluable. It’s difficult to keep the attention of the “progressive” liberal masses with endless streams of YouTube clips and daily written correspondences of Israeli injustices perpetrated against the Palestinians, but if it’s condensed into an easy-to-view format such as a documentary, it will make for an easier sell.
I’m interested to hear the commentary in the film, and I can’t wait to see it myself and hopefully use it as a weapon.
Thumbs up for Max, not only is he hard hitting in what he says, he is a hell of a communicator. I think one of the things that makes his pieces so powerful is how he reduces everything to common language, he uses everything – irony, sarcasm, logic and takes it to a common denominator. I can’t wait!
I liked the part in the trailer where the Israeli woman said “I’m a little bit fascist.” She seemed proud of herefelf. So let me get this straight,
German + Fascism= Evil but Jew + Fascism= The only democracy in the Middle East?
Hmmmmm……….methinks there be double-standards, captain!
Yes, that segment was very revealing–the Israeli woman was very smug; I’m sure she would shrink at similar video moments from the Third Reich days. Well, actually not; she would say there’s no comparison, and dismiss the insight at that.
I’ll watch it, hopefully learn something of merit.
I hope that Max is self-critical in his project, not only its effectiveness as propaganda in support of BDS.
I suspect a good deal of his finished product is the result of self-criticism.
If you have not seen much of Max’s work I recommend looking at these videos (there are plenty with excellent impact). I personally like the second video, but both are good –
HOW I GOT GASSED IN THE WEST BANK
Do your best. Inform us. But, most importantly outline a real path to actual peace.
Oh, I don’t know, how’s about Israel makes some attempt to comply with UN Resolutions, stop illegal occupation and settlement, and join the civilised world?
That might be a start. I realise it would require the Israelis to embark in a strange new direction, but they might learn to like it.
I bet the Israeli’s children, who have no obligation or, I suspect, any particular desire to isolate thermselves as dangerous rogues for the sake of some American religious nuts, might really like it.
By the way, Richard, are you still standing by your accusations of Phil Wiess’ complete journalistic malfeasance? You remember, you said he was “brainwashed”
You still stand by that?
That was after Phil got back from Gaza. He said the Gazans were “completely civilized”. You said it was the result of braineashing. It’s right there for everyone to read.
Mooser, you have to remember, Richard Witty said he couldn’t understand anyone wanting to whave a gun since words were better. The key there is, where does Witty live?
“Do your best. Inform us. But, most importantly outline a real path to actual peace. ”
Firstly, it is not incumbent upon a documentary maker to provide a path for peace. In this case, the documentary maker can serve a greater good by demonstrating what is blocking that path.
yes, precisely.
Though who at this late date has any doubt whatever as to the answer?
Mooser,
You’re paying attention to Richard again. I say ignore him, for he refuses to see truth and continues to spout his ignorance. I wish he would take a dose of his own medicine and try some self-criticism.
Go Max, go. This looks like a really hard hitting piece, one that will open eyes in many places. I agree with Nth Republic, and many of us, commenters on this site that is, have seen these clips before. The important point is that random clips will be collated into a presentable piece that will have the power to educate and inform those who haven’t seen what the facts on the ground in Israel are.
FPM
Here’s an interesting truth, you rejectionists.
I don’t know how Israel will react to it. It is the pre-requisite to a state that Israel cannot rationally object to. It is the Netanyahu stated dream on the one hand (pro-active, responsible for actual governance rather than complaining and agitating and terrorizing), and his worst nightmare on the other (a Palestinian state that has the credibility to actually be a state, and not just a complaining, agitating and terrorizing).
It is the best prospect for the Palestinian people, on the map.
link to haaretz.com
Palestinian PM: We’ll form de facto state by 2011
The Palestinian Authority intends to establish a de-facto state within the next two years, despite failing peace talks, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Tuesday.
“We have decided to be proactive, to expedite the end of the occupation by working very hard to build positive facts on the ground, consistent with having our state emerge as a fact that cannot be ignored,” Fayyad told the Times of London. “This is our agenda, and we want to pursue it doggedly.”
The real “fact that cannot be ignored”, Richard, is that Salam Fayyad and Mahmoud Abbas aren’t in a position of legitimacy to be negotiating political terms for the Palestinian people. Abbas illegally extended his own term and appointed Fayyad as Prime Minister despite the fact that the PA already had one (Haniyeh). The PA’s Parliament refuses to recognize Fayyad’s legitimacy in that position. The most pressing “fact that cannot be ignored” by rejectionists is that any deal or declaration made by the collaborative, anti-democratic Fatah regime whose power is dependent on the occupier and on Muhammad Dahlan’s brownshirts is null and void unless it includes an endorsement from the current popular party in Palestine, which happens to be Hamas. The only way this could change is if Hamas dissolves on its own (not likely), is successfully broken by Israel (impossible), or if Fatah manages to beat Hamas in the next legislative elections, which are currently scheduled for January of next year, as are the presidential elections. That doesn’t seem likely either, despite Fatah’s superficial makeover; the more likely scenario, if the elections take place, is that Hamas routs Fatah even more soundly than they did in 2006, and Abbas or whoever is President at the time extends the “state of emergency” to keep Khaled Meshaal’s party out of power. And so the stalemate will continue until the west smartens up and realizes that Hamas isn’t going anywhere, and if treated as such and given a chance, coupled with sufficient pressure on the Israelis, Hamas may indeed serve as the “partner for peace” where Fatah has failed, especially since the former actually has legitimacy both in Palestine and the greater Arab Street.
You think Israel, the US and Abbas will allow another elections to take place? No way they will fall into this “trap” again. They cannot afford another victory by Hamas. If they could destroy this government, they paid a heavy price. Even if it is a slight chance, another victory for Hamas will be too much for the “champions of democracy” to take.
Abbad and Fayyad are not illegitimate only because they made a coup against the elected government. They, and Fatah, have lately been transformed into another Arab state government. All the funding they get is not from Israel, the US and the donating countries. And all the resistance forces they had have been put on paid retirement and the new forces have been trained by Dayton (the forces that proudly suppressed the Palestinian dissent against the latest massacre of Gaza). Those are the “representatives” of the Palestinian people who will soon “negotiate” with Israel.
Bye Bye Two State Solution. Will miss you.
Really amateurish. The big scare type is really funny. I also like the title “Israel’s Terror Inside.” So much terror that he freely goes around Israel making silly films attacking Israel and nobody cares.
So you can’t attack the substance so you attack the style. Nice non rebuttal Julian.
It seems you care.
I’ve been really involved in my attempt to marry hard be-bop and klezmer music on the Hammond B-3 since I bought the organ, so I haven’t had time to read Mondoweiss (I stick to JSF, and you should all give that blog a read, too. Try it. Mark Elf knows how to run a comment section. ) but I see Witty still isn’t. But what happened to my two (or three?) personal favorites “Ed” and “Martillo”. I always enjoyed their essentialist antics. Are they still around?
It’s fun watching Witty as he defends an Israel that isn’t there, and ain’t going there.
It amazes me that out of all the accomplishments Jews have to be proud of, their unique relationship with God (different than Christians, or at least it used to be) and so much to savor and be proud of, that Zionists have choosen the cheapest and most transitory things, colonial theft and war, to mate with Judaism. Maybe we’ve run out of everything else, who knows.
I understand what you are saying, Mooser, but it really sticks in my craw that any group would say they channel the communication to G-D. It’s absurd on its face; of course that has never stopped the conceit’s power throughout history. Most people
think poetry is for the impractical few, and I see it that stale and bad poetry is the language of the politician and everyday person, the very people who are the first to jeer at poets as not of this practical earh.
Here’s a little “snippet of film”:
link to jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com
Here is displayed Witty’s reasoning, stripped to its essentials: White people committed genocide, Jews are white people (What? Only an anti-Semite would say otherwise!) so they get to commit genocide, or do any damn thing they please.
Interesting, that Jews hate gentile white people, but they think they are white people when it comes to their own power and influence.
Maybe we should start calling him Richard Whitey!
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I like the soundtrack it provides the right tempo regarding a rotten issue.
I hope the documentary doesn’t fizzle out with boring Zionists pig-dogs
claiming God gave them the land.
In a similar vein, Richard Silverstein’s blog has the English translation of a piece in Hebrew by Israeli journalist Meron Rap0port, called “A Hate Filled Morning”. It documents the hateful comments about Arabs shared freely and without encouragement by Israeli passersby while his film crew is walking down the streets of Silwan. Here’s a snippet:
A Hate-Filled Morning
yes, I saw that.
At what point do thousands upon thousands of reports from the israeli press, the world press, the human rights organizations, not to mention documentary footage of israeli abominations and reflex-racism add up to more than “anecdotal” evidence?
Interesting to see Naomi Chazan on the clip. I went to see her in Jerusalem in 2000 at the start of the intifada. She warned about where Israel was headed. Now it has arrived.
Well done Max and co. Keep up the good work. Maybe next project could be Jim Crow in Israel- Jim is resurrected from a crossroads in the old South and makes aliyah.