 Americans for Peace Now: January 28, 2021 |
Ambassador Richard Mills, the Acting Representative of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, in a speech delivered to the UN Security Council on January 26, 2021.
Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions. Jenin Jenin (January 25, 2021) Q. Two weeks ago, an Israeli court banned the screening of a film, “Jenin Jenin”, about the IDF and the second Intifada... The film was made 18 years ago. Why muzzle and penalize it now? A. ...“Jenin Jenin” vilifies Israel’s military tactics against the Palestinians during that intifada, which raged from September 2000 into 2005... Q. You seem to see this as a central and controversial issue in Israeli-Palestinian relations . . . A. The latest court ruling shines a spotlight on an 18-year-old narrative and freedom of speech controversy that is at the heart of the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict... Q. What, in your view, happened in Jenin in April 2002? A. ...only in Jenin did the IDF encounter serious, organized armed Palestinian resistance... 13 IDF reserve infantrymen were killed in an ambush. That is when the Israeli army decided to introduce huge D9 bulldozers which leveled an entire section of the camp... .. Q. And what does “Jenin Jenin” depict? A. Bakri... arrived at the partially destroyed Jenin refugee camp a few days after the IDF conquered it. Q. And there was international reaction back then... A. The extensive damage in Jenin inspired and nourished inflated Palestinian claims of thousands of civilian deaths... The United Nations delegated Terye Roed-Larsen to investigate... Q. Banning the film seems ridiculous in this age of Google. Where is the relevance today? A. Even today, it is hard after watching and listening to Bakri’s traumatized witnesses to accept the perpetual Israeli claim, war after war, that “the IDF is the most moral army in the world”. Q. Will the renewed controversy over Jenin Jenin affect real-time Israeli-Palestinian relations? A. Hardly. Israelis are busy with COVID, heavy lockdown layoffs, and March 23 elections.
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Her research focus is on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the use of international legal mechanisms by political movements, and U.S. foreign policy in the region. Previously, she was the coordinator and senior legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team during the PLO’s bid for United Nations membership, and was a member of the Palestinian delegation to Quartet-sponsored exploratory talks between 2011 and 2012.
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Activists with Israel's Shalom Achshav (Peace Now) movement fanned out in Tel Aviv last Thursday with posters protesting the surging settlers' violence targeting West Bank Palestinians.
