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Posts Tagged ‘Lemon Tree’

Dima Hamdan – On "The Lemon Tree"

By Guest Post • Dec 21st, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

While so much attention has been given to the Israeli animated film “Waltz with Bashir”, which was hailed as a brave account of Israel’s complicity in the Sabra and Shatila massacres in 1982, another Israeli film, “The Lemon Tree”, deals with the Israeli-Palestinian issue on a different, and perhaps, more profound level.

Based on true events, [...]

The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 17th, 2006 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Education, Palestine, Zionism

Very few in the West can honestly claim to have been able to appraise the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from an objective point of view that takes into account nothing but the facts. In all fairness, until quite recently, it has been tricky to find complete information that was not deformed and manipulated by heavy ideological filters. [...]