'Two Blue Lines,' Tom Hayes's third film on Palestine, premieres tonight in Columbus

posted on: Jan 28, 2015

Tom Hayes’s brilliant new documentary Two Blue Lines explores the passionate dispute among Israeli citizens about their government’s Occupation of Palestine.  The film deftly splices together dueling creeds and the result is electrifying, because it’s a split so rarely displayed on U.S. screens.  Zionist “settlers” claim all of historic Palestine, asserting, variously: “This is our territory returned by God”; “The Arabs are trespassers in the land of Israel: it’s not their country”; “This [land] is ours in every sense of the word”; It’s a “Jewish and democratic state.”

Human rights’ advocates counter such maxims, deploring the contradiction between a “Jewish state”–with “Apartheid” privileges for Jews in an “ethnocracy”–and a democracy with equality for all.

Source: mondoweiss.net