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Opening credits |
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Archive film cans on shelves |
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Karnit walking in the film
archive. working |
VO KARNIT: For years I was an archival researcherfor the Israeli film and television industry. I found
countless archival filmsto illustrate storiesfrom the history of the State
of Israel. |
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Film runs
through a Steenbeck editing table and archival film is viewed
in the archive. |
VO ARCHIVE NEWSREEL: "In a wilderness of sand covering thousands of acres, the
cornerstone for the first fifty
houses has |
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Karnit, her
back to the
camera, watches an old Israeli newsreel while operating
the Steenbeck's editing table. |
VO KARNIT: I sat in the archives for days on end and in the process, familiarized myself with Israel's photographic history. |
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VO KARNIT: One project after
another: Another kibbutz, another Ben-Gurion,another Moshe
Dayan...Seems like I've seen it all. Phone line recording,
ringing |
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Title: A FILM BY KARNIT MANDEL |
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POV Karnit
walking through archive corridors |
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Karnit opens
a box in the archive. Text on the box:
"Films in Arabic, 1982" |
Phone line recording, ringing |
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SENIOR ISRAELI TV OFFICIAL: Hello? |
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A
black screen changes
to a static visual of 6 VHS tapes stacked on top of each
other. |
KARNIT: I found
tapes. They say
"PLO loot 1982". |
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Inserting a VHS
tape into a VHS player. Karnit in her work room
watching the tape. |
SENIOR ISRAELI TV OFFICIAL: It might be from a PLO archive. The archive was confiscated during
the Lebanon War and the Palestinians have asked for it ever
since. |
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A tape plays
on a TV monitor. Changing images of Palestinian life. |
VO KARNIT: At first glance, the tapes containeda mix of raw
footage.bits of unidentified, ownerless archive material, without any indication of their source or creator.Some of
the materials were labeled: IDF and Defense Establishment ArchivesConfiscated
footage from the PLO Archive in Beirut". |
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Images from
the lost archive. |
M.G (on phone): This is something I really dreamed
of all my lifeto have
a hold on it, or to at least to see it.There is the |
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documentaries, cinema, drama, and actual raw footage,you know, like,
raw material.And it's
not in your
country,it's not within your people,It's somewhere
else.They took it. |
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Images from
the lost archive. |
ATEF SOURA (on phone): This
much I know:
The Palestinians don't know
where this archive is. Someone took it and they don't know where it went and how it was kept, maybe it was lost
altogether. I think it's very sad. |
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F.I
on monitor: Title:
SHALAL |
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Images from
the lost archive. |
VO KARNIT: The first frames
I see look
like footage from
the 1940s. |
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MS MORALE BAR-ON |
KARNIT: You're one of Israel's oldest
historians, You've studied the first
decades of the state, You
are one of the
few who were there
at all the
events that you have written about. I wanted to
meet you because you also recorded those years visually.I want
to show you some archival footage I've found. |
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Images from the lost
archive. |
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MORALE BAR-ON
watching the footage (OTS) |
MORALE BAR-ON Would you like me to comment? KARNIT: If you want
to. |
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Images from
the lost archive. |
MORALE BAR-ON: Okay.
This is a family that
owns an orchard and they're...doing their work.
This looks like the '30s. |
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KARNIT: Were Palestinians filming at that
time? |
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MS MORALE BAR-ON |
MORALE BAR-ON: They were not very organized. They were poor and could not afford to buy good
cameras. I do know some photos that were undoubtedly taken
by an amateur at the scene. So there
were such photos, but not many,
in my opinion. This of course has to do with the economic and cultural level
of the Arabs at that time,
who were much
more backward than
the Jewish settlers, in terms of organized communication, and various
social and cultural networks. |
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PROF.
MUSTAFA KABHA
watching the
footage (OTS) |
KARNIT: I've found
some footagethat I believe was shot by Palestinians. Does that make sense to
you? |
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MS PROF. MUSTAFA KABHA IMAGES FROM
THE LOST ARCHIVE |
PROF. MUSTAFA KABHA: Of course it does! Palestinian cinema began in the
1930s. They started filming, yes? The Kayali
company. There were cameras filming, even inside
the houses, and daily life, and the markets in Tiberias, in Beit
She'an, in Acre, in Majdal and in Gaza. Each photo can reconstruct an entire story.
One can see
clothing items, where they liked to be filmed, next
to what The
contents of the house,
the dishes, All these things. You can reconstruct an entire history with
these images. |
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CU PROF. MUSTAFA KABHA |
KARNIT: So what
happened to these
materials? |
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PROF. MUSTAFA KABHA:Most of them are in Israeli
archives, the State
Archives, for example, classified under: "Shalal" (seized materials). |
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KARNIT goes
up the stairs
in the archive, walks through the corridors,
looking for films. |
Y, ISRAELI TV PRODUCER: Hello
KARNIT: I'm researching the Palestinian archive in Beirut. |
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Y, ISRAELI TV PRODUCER (on phone): Let me tell you. KARNIT: OK |
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Y, ISRAELI TV PRODUCER (on
phone): In 1982
the IDF took Beirut, and as part of its
conquest, it took the PLO archives. |
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KARNIT: All I found were
a few tapesit didn't look
like an archive, |
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Y, ISRAELI TV PRODUCER (on phone): The entire archive
is in the IDF ARCHIVE: . |
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TV news
report from Beirut,
1982 |
REPORTER: "PLO headquarters in Beirut, IDF soldiers remove truckloads of files and documents in a race against time before the IDF pulls
out of West
Beirut, probably this
week. The |
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SABRI JIRYIS watching it at his home office. |
removal of the loot is in full swing,
including at the Institute for Palestinian Studies, the academic arm of the
PLO, in the Hamra district. born in Fassuta in the Galilee, The director of
this institute is Sabri Jaresh, born in Fassuta in the Galilee, co- founder of "El-Ard" (civil rights movement).
Everything is packed, still unsorted, and ready to go. There's a large
collection of photographs that were used for propaganda purposes: refugees, a
funeral, and so on. Whole floors
with massive collections on subjects of every kind, cataloged by both subject
and author. It's definitely interesting to see how they worked, and the
material itself which is a real treasure, even if it's in our possession. -
And all this will be brought to Israel? - Certainly." |
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MS SABRI
JIRYIS Cross cut to Archive films |
SABRI JIRYIS: That
was my work.
And his words
are true. It's true. |
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KARNIT (OFF
SCREEN): What?                                                     SABRI JIRYIS:
What he said.How he described the material that
was there. He's
right. Go ahead. |
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KARNIT (OFF SCREEN):Do you remember that day? |
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SABRI JIRYIS: I remember it,
but I wasn't
there. I was in...I was hiding. Do you understand? I disappeared. Because they would have arrested me. When I came back
after the IDF
left it was all
gone. |
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VO ARCHIVE FILM:
"So the PLO
established the Palestinian Research Centerto study how
to raise awareness of the Palestinian issue." |
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SABRI JIRYIS: I was the Director General of the Palestine Research
Center. The Center's mission was to document the Palestinian question, to
create an archive on the Palestinian question. There was a film unit
and they made
films. All kinds
of films. And I think, what you've seen, is some of those things. What exactly happened with these films?
I don't know.
When the IDF entered Beirut, they loaded
all onto trucks
and took it away. Where did you get it? |
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KARNIT: It is in the IDF ARCHIVE: s. |
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SABRI JIRYIS: And they allow
you to...? KARNIT: Yes. |
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SABRI JIRYIS: I mean, they
let you see it? KARNIT:
Yes. |
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SABRI JIRYIS: Fine.
You must be well-connected, because other people didn't get that
permission. |
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Karnit walking in archive corridors, search for films |
IDF ARCHIVE (ON
PHONE): Hello. |
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KARNIT (ON PHONE): This is Karnit, about accessing items taken from the PLO archives. |
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IDF ARCHIVE: : Have you seen some
of these films? |
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KARNIT: I only
saw a few tapes,and I understand that
there's a lot of other material. |
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IDF ARCHIVE: Since the films are spoils of war, and are classified, a committee discussion is necessary, it's
not a standard procedure. Only the committee can discuss and approve it. You will
need to submit
a written request
to the director of the
archives, under the title "Request to view classified archival material". Should she approve, it will be processed Should she not approve it won't be processed.
Goodbye. KARNIT: Good day. Bye. |
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TV
monitor showing images
of Gaza strip |
VO KARNIT: The next tape
reads: "Gaza Strip,
1956." This is |
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the first time
I've seen a daily record
of Gaza Strip
residents from that period. I'm looking for Israeli newsreels. |
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Karnit watching Israeli newsreel in the
archive |
VO NEWSREEL REPORTER: "Life is quiet
now in and
around Gaza City,after its liberation from
Egyptian rule." |
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VO KARNIT: This
reel reports on Israel's incursion into Gaza November 3rd,
1956. |
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VO NEWSREEL REPORTER: "A new local council was appointed in Rafah, the
largest settlement in the Gaza
Strip, with the participation of IDF officers and Arab dignitaries." |
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VO KARNIT: During
the Sinai campaign the IDF captured the entire Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip in five days. |
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VO NEWSREEL REPORTER: "In addition, an Israeli post
office began operating in Gaza." |
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Newsreel end card: "The End" "Geva Films
Ltd" |
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Images from
the lost archive. |
VO KARNIT: I go back
to the Palestinian tape. I knew
the Israeli newsreels quite well. I've never seen this stuff. |
VO KARNIT: In the archive, among the files from that time, I found a leaflet. It was addressed to the forces
occupying Gaza: |
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A leaflet is shown on screen. Fade
to images from the lost
archive. |
VO KARNIT: "Gaza. A living organ
torn from the State
of Israel. A fist aimed at
the state. "Gaza. A living organ torn from the State of Israel. A fist aimed
at the state.
A constant threat
to our security. Fighters!
Tonight we will break through and overrun the enemy's positions until we
uproot Gaza's gates and locks. As war veterans, we will carry with us the best martial tradition, our military fitness and a will of iron to defeat the enemy and
win them over." |
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Karnit watching the monitor. Images
from the lost archive. |
VO KARNIT: And on the same tape,
towards its end,
I found the same images
of Gaza. This
time, as a short extract
of an |
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edited, narrated film. |
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Images from
the lost archive. |
VO ARCHIVE FILM:
"Gaza, is one
of the most
highly populated regions of
the earth. In a narrow strip of land there is a population of four hundred
thousand, a quarter of million of whom are refugees. Every day, a hundred new births add
to the complexity of the Arab
refugee problem. The children who grow
up up in the camps are surrounded by frustration and bitterness. If we cannot
yet solve the problem, that overshadows the years of their youth, let us at
least try to give to those dark
clouds a silver lining." |
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TV news
report from Beirut,
1982 |
VO NEWSREEL REPORTER: "The collection of material from PLO offices here and elsewhere
continues. It will take a very long time to sort through
it..." |
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MS BENNY
MICHELSON |
DR. BENNY MICHELSON: At the time,
I was an assistant to the
Northern intelligence officer. We came to the place that was ours, and took
everything. |
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KARNIT: What were
you looking for
there? |
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DR. BENNY MICHELSON: Intelligence, of course! Vast amounts of
information. All the agents, all the... what they're interested in, their plans,
their orders, whatever. It was all there,
and not only that,
but the entire
history of the PLO. Tapes both video and audio, and
computerized material. |
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KARNIT: What was on the
tapes? |
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DR. BENNY MICHELSON: I don't know,
I didn't examine everything, but I know
there was a lot. Some movies they recorded from TV and some
footage they shot
themselves. |
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KARNIT: Was there
any pre-PLO material?Palestinian history before 1964? |
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DR. BENNY MICHELSON: Yes, but just a few
books, It's not |
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history, just a few books,
of of Arab
history, not... |
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KARNIT: Okay. |
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DR. BENNY MICHELSON: Let me remind
you that there
were no Palestinians in '64. The concept was invented later. |
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KARNIT: What do you think
they were... trying
to achieve with the collection? |
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DR. BENNY MICHELSON: Who? |
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KARNIT: The PLO. |
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DR. BENNY MICHELSON: Nothing, it was
for their use. Why do we have an archive in Jerusalem? Why do we have an IDF
ARCHIVE: in Tel HaShomer? It's a
very useful thing. |
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KARNIT: What is it it used for? |
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DR. BENNY MICHELSON: What do you
mean? It's used for...It's processed and turned into intelligence. Whatever you |
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KARNIT: And then
what? |
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DR. BENNY MICHELSON: What do you
mean, "and then"? |
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KARNIT: Does it go anywhere? Is it stored? Destroyed? |
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MICHELSON: Of course, it goes to an archive. |
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KARNIT: Who owns
the rights to the spoils
of war? |
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DR. BENNY MICHELSON: The IDF, of course. All the spoils
of war belong
to the IDF. |
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KARNIT: Is there
access to these
materials today? |
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DR. BENNY MICHELSON: You can make
a request, maybe they'll give
you some. |
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Karnit walking in archive corridors, search for films |
IDF ARCHIVE (ON PHONE): Hi Karnit |
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KARNIT: I wanted to ask you something about the PLO collection.I put
in a request to see if there's more of these
films in the archiveAny idea if it was processed? |
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IDF ARCHIVE (ON PHONE): Not a clue.
I don't do that. |
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KARNIT: And say, do you know where
I can find outwho filmed this footage? |
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IDF ARCHIVE (ON
PHONE):I have no idea. |
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KARNIT: Okay, bye.
- Bye bye. |
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Anan Barakat watching |
ANAN BARAKAT: I don't know what to say, I mean, These materials,I don't
know what to say, I mean, These
materials,if they were not
in your movie,
I wouldn't have
seen |
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them.Because there is no shooting, no killing.It's amazing. Look how beautiful it is.Their beautiful white uniforms,It's
beautiful. These are images we rarely see.Palestinian girls' school, beautiful and tidy,with their
hair in braids
and hairbands. This
is amazing. |
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M.S Anan Barakat / Images from
the lost archive. |
ANAN BARAKAT: The Palestinian peopleThey had camera awareness. Circa
1964, they formed the Documentation and Photography Unit. There were
photographers before 1964 they were interested in documenting the Palestinian cause.
But there was nothing that
you could call an organized photography movement. Mustafa Abu Ali, Sulafa Jadallah, Hani Jawhariyeh, |
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Still images
of the members
of the PLO Film
Unit |
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ANAN BARAKAT: Mustafa
Abu Ali, Sulafa
Jadallah, Hani Jawhariyeh, they
are the trio who founded the Palestinian cinema, starting with the photography department. |
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ANAN BARAKAT: I first met Mustafa Abu Ali in Ramallah, In 2004 I started meeting with him. "With our own teeth," he used to say,
"With tooth and
nail we protected every frame" He said
they fought for every frame,
image and scene.
Without a visual record, it's like we didn't do
anything. There was a lot of filmimng activity inside the PLO building and
offices. |
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M.S Anan Barakat / Images from
the lost archive. |
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M.S Anan Barakat / Images from
the lost archive. |
ANAN BARAKAT: "The
Palestinian Filming Unit" - that's one name. "The Palestinian
Cinema Institution", "The Palestinian Cinema Group", "The
Photography Unit"... a different name each time. Many things
have been documented, although there are no lists. According to the stories, and to what Mustafa Abu
Ali told me, they used to shoot enormous amounts every day. "We plan to
shoot in this refugee camp, or in that area... a movie can come out of
it!..". |
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Images from the
lost archive. |
WOMAN (IN FOOTAGE, OFF SCREEN): What are they
doing? NURSE (IN FOOTAGE): She's
being photographed. They're |
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CHILD'S VOICE (IN FOOTAGE): "Film her, film her" |
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...DIRECTOR'S VOICE (IN
FOOTAGE): "Keep walking, keep |
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Images from
the lost archive/ MS Anan Barakat. |
ANAN BARAKAT: If you hold
a gun you can shoot
and kill, But if you pick up a camera and use it
to document, the other person atarts to worry. He starts to feel that you're
free. That you have power.
That is, all the documentation, to this day, to this day, what do the Palestinians document? They document their story. |
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Images from
the lost archive |
ANAN BARAKAT (OFF SCREEN): I don't know where the archive is. I tried
to look for
it. One story
says that the archive is buried in Beirut, in a cemetery.
Another says the archive is within Israeli institutions, or in the archive of
the Israeli army. |
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IDF ARCHIVE (ON PHONE): Archive
KARNIT (ON PHONE): Hello IDF ARCHIVE (ON PHONE): Hello
KARNIT: May I speak with Ilana? |
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IDF ARCHIVE (ON PHONE): Hold
on, who is this? KARNIT: Karnit Mandel |
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IDF ARCHIVE (ON PHONE): Does
she know you?
KARNIT: She knows
what it's about |
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IDF ARCHIVE (ON PHONE): Oh, okay. One moment. KARNIT: Thank
you. |
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IDF ARCHIVE (ON
PHONE): She's busy now. KARNIT: How can I reach her?
She's never available. |
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IDF ARCHIVE (ON PHONE):Hello                                                         KARNIT: Yes ARCHIVE: Hello? |
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IDF ARCHIVE (ON PHONE): Hello?
KARNIT: Yes |
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IDF ARCHIVE (ON PHONE): Yes, she's currently unavailable. She's on the phone. |
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KARNIT (ON PHONE): Okay, fine. Thank
you. |
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Karnit watching the
monitor, showing archive foogate of the Karameh camp in Jordan. |
VO KARNIT: At the beginning of the following tape a caption reads: "Karameh camp:before and
after the IDF
attack". The footage
tells very little. |
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Karnit watching an old Israeli newsreel on a computer screen in the archive. Shots
from the newsreel, depicting IDF operation in |
VO KARNIT: I find an Israeli newsreel dated March 21, 1968. The newsreel reports a major
IDF raid in Jordan, in response to a
Palestinian terrorist attack, where a school
bus hit a landmine |
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Jordan. |
near Be'er Ora. |
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Shots from the
newsreel, depicting IDF operation in Jordan. |
NEWSREEL REPORTER: "On March 21, IDF
troops set out
on a mission to attack the terrorists' bases.
These bases served
as training camps and launching points for terrorist activities. Our
troops captured Karameh, north of the Dead Sea. Our correspondent Yehiel
Ne'eman accompanied one of the units. The locals were ordered to remain calm
and to follow IDF instructions. Our troops were ordered not to harm
civilians. Houses were searched and places where
terrorists or weopons were found were blown up." |
Avraham Bar'am
watching the newsreel. |
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MS Avraham Bar'am |
GEN. AVRAHAM BAR'AM: This was seven or eight months after the Six-Day War.
We were told that the village was being
used as a Fatah training camp and headquarters. Our mission was to
enter the village, attack the terrorists, destroy their base,destroy their
ammunition, their weapons, everything they
had, finish and leave. |
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Muki Betzer watching the newsreel. |
[SOUNDTRACK NEWSREEL] |
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MS Muki
Betzer. |
MUKI BETZER: Our feeling was:
We'll have a win, it'll
be easy. There are
2,000 Fatah men there, Arafat
is there, we'll
surround and pluck them
like ripe fruit. When the
operation was over our
troops returned to their bases. |
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Shots from
the newsreel. Sabri
Jiryis watching the newsreel. |
NEWSREEL REPORTER: The Israel Defense Forces dealt a heavy blow
to the terroristsand proved that peace
must reign on both sides of the border,Otherwise,
Israel's military arm will reach the murdererseven in places they
deem safe." |
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#NAME? |
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MS Sabri
Jiryis. |
SABRI JIRYIS: That's
nonsense, a distorted description. It was a
real battle. Israel
invaded, the Jordanian army supported the Fedayeen, and they joined forces
against the IDF. It was the first battle, face to face with the Israelis.
Conducted by the Palestinians. Here, even though we're outnumbered, we can stand up to the
IDF and fight
back! Karameh became
a symbol. |
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That's the story.
As simple as that. |
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MS Avraham Bar'am |
KARNIT: They think
they have won. |
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GEN. AVRAHAM BAR'AM: Because, as far as they are concerned, they've never lost a war. Have they ever
admitted defeat? Arabs don't think they lost. They knew how to use
propaganda and turn
around almost any
war against them
into a political triumph. I salute them, they know how to do it. We don't. |
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Karnit walks through
the archive corridors and finds the rushes of the
newsreel. Watching the
rushes on a Steenbeck
machine in the archive. |
VO KARNIT: I wonder about
the contradiction between
the Palestinian version and what is described in the Israeli newsreel. I manage to find the raw footageand watch some shots that were
edited out. |
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NEWSREEL REPORTER: "On March 21, IDF
forces set out to attack the
terrorists' bases.Our correspondent Yehiel Ne'eman |
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Footage from the Israeli Carmel
Newsreel, 1968 |
REPORTER NE'EMAN (ON
PHONE): Hello KARNIT (ON PHONE) : Hi |
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KARNIT (ON PHONE): Is this... REPORTER NE'EMAN: Hello |
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KARNIT (ON PHONE):
Is this Yehiel
Ne'eman? |
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REPORTER NE'EMAN (ON PHONE): It is. |
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KARNIT (ON PHONE):
I'm investigating Operation Karamehand I found out that you were there,
as a news reporter. |
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REPORTER NE'EMAN (ON PHONE): No...
I was not in Karameh. |
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KARNIT (ON PHONE):
This isn't you?
REPORTER NE'EMAN: Yes, it's
me, |
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REPORTER NE'EMAN (ON PHONE): but it wasn't
in Karameh. but it wasn't
in Karameh. What I filmed wasn't in Karameh.On the day of the Karameh
operation, there were no cameramen there. What you see in the newsreel is not from
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place the same day, south of the Dead
Sea. |
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KARNIT (ON PHONE):
Ahh.. |
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REPORTER NE'EMAN (ON PHONE): The Karameh action
was not filmed
at all. |
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KARNIT (ON PHONE):
I see. REPORTER NE'EMAN: I wasn't in Karameh. |
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KARNIT (ON PHONE):
Okay. |
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KARNIT (ON PHONE):
Thank you. Bye.
REPORTER NE'EMAN: Thanks, have a good day. Bye. |
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Footage from the Israeli Carmel
Newsreel, 1968 |
VO REPORTER NE'EMAN: "The IDF dealt the terrorists a heavy blowand proved that peace
must reign on both sides
of the border, or else the military
arm of Israel will reach the murderers even in places they
deem safe". |
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MS Muki
Betzer |
MUKI BETZER: These
images were taken
after the battle,
not during it, by IDF
photographers, or someone
like that, who
took them after it was all over. |
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KARNIT: It is not Karameh. |
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MUKI BETZER: Right,
it's not the Karameh battle. |
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KARNIT: Seriously. MUKI
BETZER: Really? |
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MUKI BETZER: It's
possible |
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KARNIT: The reporter was sent elsewhere. |
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MUKI BETZER: Right.
You see, we are...We're being
misled. |
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MS Muki
Betzer |
MUKI BETZER: This was eight months after the Six-Day War. After the
glorious victoryover three Arab countries, in only six days. And then, eight
months later, came a resounding failure. It
was heavily censored. They didn't let
the public know
that in a seemingly simple military operation, thirty soldiers were
killed, a hundred were
wounded, some severely, some missing in action
and tanks were left in the hands of the terrorists and the Jordanians. |
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MS Avraham Bar'am |
GEN. AVRAHAM BAR'AM:
It's true. We didn't kill
them all. Some got away. But
we captured Karameh. About 170 prisoners of war
and about 130 killed they
had there. Speaking |
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strictly military, we accomplished our
mission and that
means victory. |
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CU Sabri
Jiryis. |
SABRI JIRYIS: Karameh
marks the first
dateof the face-to-face struggle with Israel. No
doubt about it. |
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archive |
VO KARNIT: I go back
to the Palestinian materials. |
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OTS Avraham
Bar'am watching the footage |
GEN. AVRAHAM BAR'AM: These are bombed-out houses. That's okay.
That's what we came for.We
blew up their
houses, so you see blown up houses. |
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the lost archive |
VO KARNIT: The fighting in Karameh was fierce, costing many casualtiesPrime Minister Levi Eshkol forbade the
reporting of the battle results in real-time. They
were not fully
published until 1984. |
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the lost archive |
VO KARNIT: The next shots on this tape seem like they were shot
elsewhere. After intensive research I manage to identify the location: The Al Baqa'a
refugee camp about
80km northeast of Karameh. Here is where
the residents of Karameh fled
to, on March 21, 1968. Some
26,000 refugees resided in the Al Baqa'a camp in an area of about 1.5 square
kilometers. |
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the lost archive |
VO KARNIT: The historical memory
of my generation consists
of a collection of visual images. Images from movies, newspapers, TV news.
What we saw in the pictures actually happened. What we never saw never
happened. |
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Shots of a film archive. |
IDF ARCHIVE (PHONE): Archive KARNIT: Is Ilana free
by any chance? |
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IDF ARCHIVE (PHONE): Yes, who is this? KARNIT:
Karnit IFD ARCHIVE (PHONE): One moment |
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IDF ARCHIVE (PHONE): Speak. |
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KARNIT (PHONE): Ilana? |
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ILANA (PHONE): Yes,
Karnit. |
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time. I left
many messages about
the Palestinian archive. I have to get an
answer on this. |
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ILANA (PHONE): We don't have it. The Palestinian archiveis not in the IDF ARCHIVE: . It
was returned after the Oslo Accords. It was part of the agreement. The
material was returned. |
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KARNIT (PHONE): So what is the collection of reels I saw? |
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ILANA (PHONE): A copy of what? |
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ILANA (PHONE): The
films that.. ILANA (HEAD
OF IDF ARCHIVE): It's all we got. |
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KARNIT (PHONE): Okay
ILANA (HEAD OF IDF ARCHIVE): The PLO archive
is not in the IDF ARCHIVE: .It's sort of an urban myth, that a whole lot of people
thought was true,
and it's |
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KARNIT (PHONE): Okay.
Fine. |
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ILANA (PHONE): Well,
thank you. ILANA
(HEAD OF IDF ARCHIVE): You're
welcome, Karnit. KARNIT:
Bye. |
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the lost archive. |
M.G (PHONE): The Israelis were asked about the Palestinian archive,and they
should have returned itThe Israeils never
gave definite yes or definite no. They always say: "we will check it and come back to you",
I don't know if they have ever came backto the Palestinians on the issue. |
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Images from
the lost archive. |
KARNIT (PHONE): Hello?
- Is this **? POLITICIAN: Yes. |
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KARNIT (PHONE): My name is Karnit POLITICIAN: Oh, about PLO films? |
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KARNIT (PHONE): Yes,
I need a clearer answer. |
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POLITICIAN (PHONE): What,
what's the question? |
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KARNIT (PHONE): The question is,
was it discussed in the Oslo Accords? Ron Pundak told
me that in his day it was not |
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POLITICIAN (PHONE): Nor
in my time. I've saved
every note from that time, I remember every
word. |
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KARNIT: Okay. POLITICIAN: Million percent. KARNIT: Okay, good. Bye-bye. |
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the lost archive. |
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER (PHONE): I have no idea where those materials are kept,if you ask me, a lot has been |
{00:38:35.00} |
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER (PHONE): Don't get your
hopes up, |
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Don't get your
hopes up, because I'm not
sure you'll be able to reach them. If they even exist.
What has been
done with them? Not much, in my opinion. But I
don't really know. You really have
to be careful with those films, because this is real propaganda. Even if it's
just some footage of a parade in Ramallah.
It has a purpose. It's
not being filmed
for nothing. So I'd keep that footage. I wouldn't
give it back. Why give it back? |
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M.S Anan Barakat
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the lost archive. |
ANAN BARAKAT: You take a picture with
the family, a photo of the
children, and what's the first thing you
do? You buy a photo album, and put in the photos.
What is this album anyway? It's your archive, and you keep it in the closet
for when a relative comes to visit,
or when the kids grow
up, you'll show them these photos. Archive is memory. |
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Images from
the lost archive. |
NURSE (ARCHIVE FILM):
"Now we wash the baby's
toes, then his heel and up.
Don't forget the knee area and the folds ..." "One more time?" |
{00:40:09.04} |
Karnit watching the monitor. |
VO KARNIT: This
is the only
color footage in all the tapes I found. |
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Images from
the lost archive (color). |
NURSE (ARCHIVE FILM):
"...You gradually give the baby different kinds
of food, then
you can gradually wean him from |
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VO KARNIT: Who are these
women?Have they ever seen this film? |
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NURSE (ARCHIVE FILM): "...from his mother. When the baby is born
"...from his mother. When the baby is born he feeds on his mother,
from her breast
milk.""All babies are breastfed from the moment they are
born..." "Raising babies
is never easy.
You have to build a good foundation, Just like building, with a good
foundation the next floor will be easier. It gets easier with the second and the third..." |
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Karnit inserts the last tape into the VHS player. |
VO KARNIT: In the last
tape I watched
the images again
seem to be pre-state footage. |
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the lost archive. |
NARRATOR (ARABIC): "The city of Jaffa,
one of the most beautiful Arab
cities, with an estimated population of 100,000. |
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Every year it exports millions of citrus crates worldwide. Jaffa Port:
one of the oldest seaports in the Mediterranean, with sailors highly
skilled in both fishing and sailing. Jaffa
was one of the most important industrial cities
in Palestine. Just as Haifa was one of the most important trading cities. The
population of Haifa in 1946 is estimated at 123,000 the majority of whom are Arabs. There are also
dozens of cities and villages throughout Palestine whose Arab inhabitants
were forced to emigrate." |
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M.S SABRI JIRYIS
/ Images from
the lost archive. |
SABRI JIRYIS: This describes what happened in Palestine, when I was seven
or eight. Ten
years before the State of Israel.
I was still in elementary school, living like
any other school
boy. There wasn't anything special about my life, although I tried to be a good student, and like all the
other kids my age, I played and... However, I still remember the events of 1948. Especially how the Haganah
invaded the village
and captured our village. I also remember how the refugees fled
and the men were expelled.And...The older I get, the more I remember. |
{00:43:29.21} |
Karnit watching Israeli footage on a Steenbeck machine |
VO KARNIT: I go back
to the Israeli archives,to the pictures of the founding of Israel. |
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Narrated Israeli footage
from the movie
"The Day Came" (1950) |
VO NARRATOR (ARCHIVE FILM): The city
of Jaffa, bordering Tel Aviv,was taken and the
Israeli flag was raised over it.Lod and its airport have been taken.Ramla and
Beit Nabala fell to our hands.The siege
of Ben Shemen
is lifted.On July
19, 1948, the Israeli army
entered Nazareththe Arab inhabitants surrendered and came under the Israeli
flag." |
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Morale Bar-On
flipping through a book |
MORALE BAR-ON: : I haven't looked at it for a very long
time. |
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KARNIT: You have
edited the IDF Victory Albums |
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MORALE BAR-ON: : Yes. KARNIT:
They were in almost every Israeli home
MORALE BAR-ON: : Yes. |
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KARNIT: You must have seen some pictures that tell a slightly different story
that didn't make
it into the albums. |
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CU Morale
Bar-On CU still
images from the album |
MORALE BAR-ON: : I don't
recall seeing any picture that got dropped
during our editing. I have a picture of myself sorting the photos with thousands of photos spread out on the floor. I
chose them for their quality and because they reflected something in the
book, that I wanted reflected. I don't recall saying "This reflects
badly on the IDF, so leave it out." There weren't many photos of that
sort, both because the photographers didn't take ugly things, and because
there weren't that many ugly things
to shoot. So, to begin
with, reality was reflected
back to us through images that
weren't ugly. If there's a story
here it's a story designed to make the IDF likable to Israelis and to itself. We wanted to describe ourselves to
ourselves. |
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MS-CU Morale
Bar-On |
KARNIT: So you took out the Arabs? |
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MORALE BAR-ON: : No. None
of what you say, I don't accept any of it. Our experience was not that we "took them out".They
left on their own. We expelled them... |
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KARNIT: No, in the photos
MORALE BAR-ON: : I'm talking about the
photos. |
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MORALE BAR-ON: : The Arabs
were not a central issue
for us. The Arabs
were not a central issue
for us. They
were defeated. They were
deported. They were an insignificant minority. And we talked about ourselves. We were self-portraying. Suppose I saw... I can't remember it's been so many
years, but suppose I saw there, on the floor, a photo of... a Jewish soldier
pushing Arab refugee to flee. I could have
included it. It's
part of the story. |
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KARNIT: So you didn't see any? |
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MORALE BAR-ON: No, maybe there
were. I didn't
look. |
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the list archive Morale watching with this back to the camera. |
VO MORALE BAR-ON: They are wounded or dead Arabs,and a man with his prayer
beads.These are prisoners of war. You can see they're POWs.I guess they took
pity on the old man. |
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MS Morale
Bar-On |
MORALE BAR-ON: I'm not trying to hide the fact that images were sorted. We
didn't reveal all the stories, but
there was no IDF that was all about rape, expulsion and looting. There was looting, there was rape, there were expulsions. That was not the IDF. The IDF fought and reflected the entire nation.
And in the nation
there were all sorts of people. But,
uh we should face the
truth. We owe it to ourselves. To them too, but more to ourselves, to reveal
the truth, even if it wasn't pretty and
colors our own behavior badly. |
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the list archive |
M.G: The confiscation of the film
archives of the PLO has been
like a loss of people's identity. archives is a living subject, you don't put
it in some closet, and you leave
it somewhere. If they don't want to return it to the
Palestinians, they should make it public.The aim is to make it accessible,
you know,no matter where, but it has to be accessible. |
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ATEF SOURA: The damage is twofold. The Israelis also deserve to know: Who am I fighting?What does this enemy
look like?Someone decides you won't see it.Someone thinks you better
not see it." |
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PROF. MUSTAFA KABHA: In this country, different nations have different layers of memory
and each layer
has the right
to be freely available to any reader.
Jewish children are taught to |
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be proud that
their nation hasn't
forgotten for 2,000
years. So why do you want
the Palestinians to forget after
70 years? |
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CU/MS Mustafa Kabha |
PROF. MUSTAFA KABHA: Why do you seek for yourself that you are denying
to others? There's this desire to cover and erase the layers of Palestinian
memory. No attempt to erase a layer of memory
can ever succeed. The memory will
continue to peek out from
under every carpet. |
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KARNIT (ON PHONE): I don't know if I am going to find more
materials,because they say they don't have it.But still I wonderwhom do I actually have to ask for permission to use it? |
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SABRI JIRYIS (ON PHONE:) If you need
my permission, you have it.Look, it's spoils
of war, and
Israel has it.I
don't know if they would recognize it,that I have
the authority to give permission.Without a clear answer
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VO KARNIT: Without a clear answer from the defense establishment.I turn
to Dr. Yakkob
Lozowick,the state archivist during my years of research.
While he was in office, he was forbidden to give
interviews. |
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MS Dr Jacob
Lozowick |
DR. JACOB LOZOWICK: When I was state archivist, I warned about cases
where materials were unopened for reasons which, in my view, are illegitimate in
a democratic state. I have stated this very clearly and continue to do so today. According to Israeli law, no
official of the State of Israel has the authority to restrict access to
materials beyond the time period specified in the regulations. The role of
the archive is to make its materials accessible to the public.
So it should limit access
to a very small portion
that must remain classified. This tiny portion
should not include historical narrative considerations, certainly not 70 years later. |
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MS Dr Jacob
Lozowick |
DR. JACOB LOZOWICK: And if we lock away materials even after 70 years
we must not do so because we want to hide part of the real story. Archival
material is there for people to come and look at, and make their historical
interpretation, and for others to come
and say: "I
don't like that
interpretation, because the material teaches me something else". Does it happen
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Israel that unauthorized archivists deny access
to materials for reasons that should
not be in a democratic state? Yes. I said
that when I was in office. |
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KARNIT: Why did you resign? |
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DR. JACOB LOZOWICK: Because the forces
committed to the status quowere much more powerful than a lone
state archivist. |
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Karnit rewinds a
tape. Footage seen in movie rolls back to beginning. The tape exits the
VCR. |
VO KARNIT: I was unable
to trace the whereabouts of the
rest of the Palestinian archives. It may be scattered in several
places, or most of it is in Israel maybe some of it has been destroyed. In 2018, Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed an amendment to the Archives Law. The period of
secrecy for information stored in
Israeli defense archives was extended from 70 to 90 years. |
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