John Pilger:
"Palestine is Still the Issue"
Why Has This Documentary,
Never Been Broadcast On U.S. Media ?
"Twenty-five years
ago, I made a film called Palestine Is Still The Issue. It was about a nation
of people - the Palestinians - forced off their land and later subjected
to a military occupation by Israel. An occupation condemned by the United
Nations and almost every country in the world, including Britain.
But Israel is backed
by a very powerful friend, the United States. So in 25 years, if we're to
speak of the great injustice here, nothing has changed. What has changed
is that the Palestinians have fought back.
Stateless and humiliated
for so long, they've risen up against Israel's huge military machine, although
they themselves have no arm, no tanks, no American planes and gun ships
or missiles.
Some have committed
desperate acts of terror, like suicide bombing. But for Palestinians, the
overriding, routine terror, day after day, has been the ruthless control
of almost every aspect of their lives, as if they live in an open prison.
This film is about the Palestinians and a group of courageous Israelis united
in the oldest human struggle - to be free."
