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PT 1/2 Death In Gaza
PT 1/2 Death In Gaza
September 5th, 2009
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In spring 2003, filmmaker James Miller and reporter Saira Shah, following the success of their Peabody-winning films “Unholy War” and “Beneath the Veil,” set out to take a first-hand look at the culture of hate that permeates the Middle East.

They captured the lives of three Palestinian children growing up in the bullet-riddled streets of Gaza, indoctrinated in the creed of Jihad, and had planned to show the Israeli side next. But on May 2, in the midst of filming, Miller was shot to death by an Israeli tank, falling victim to the conflict he covered. The America Undercover special Death In Gaza tells this tragic, eye-opening story.

Death In Gaza begins in Nablas, where Miller and Shah witness an explosion that kills several Palestinians suspected of being suicide bombers. “We’re trying to understand how people learn to hate so deeply that they’re prepared to die in order to kill,” says Shah.

“So we’re looking for the next generation, the children who will make either peace or war.” In Nablas, that generation is playing dangerous games with the Israelis, as children shower the tanks that patrol their street with rocks, taunting the soldiers inside.

PT 1/2 Death In Gaza, 9.0 out of 10 based on 9 ratings
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  • kim

    Israel is mentally ill. Like a child who was severely abused and grew up to be a monster, lashing out and blaming everyone around it. I feel for the Victims of the Holocaust and all the painful memories their children have to carry with them to this day. But that does not excuse Victimizing other people in similar ways. Break the cycle, Israel. You are turning into the people who made your grandparents victims. You are the ‘bad guys’ now.

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    • sevin

      i agree with you kim they have become the bad guys…iam not racist in anyway,iam not anti semitic,but america has to stop blindy supporting this madness!

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      • Hykomdamor

        you dont know anythign about zionists you idiot , everyone points to it as such a bad thing! i am a zionist and proud , it is the belief in our right to a home which you have all denied us for centuries whilst persecuting us worse than anyother in any time before.
        the poor palestinians who rejected the 1948 partition plan which gave them an arab state called palestine which FYI the jews agreed to , are now demanding we give them back what they are owed…. well i tell you over my dead body will i give my land to a person who wants not only to kill israelis but also to kill jews , a government who condones suicide bombings and human shields , you can give me all the anti israel anti zionist replies youw ant , but the reality is you have not served in the idf , you do not live here and you do not see the  reality of it , you swallow the spoonfullls of anti zionist anti semitic propaganda designed to de legitimise the state which has more of a right than any other in the world to be there. not only is this true , but there was never a state of palestine….. before israel there was the ottoman empires control over the land , then the british took it in WWI and the balfour declaration and bam you have israel , there was no palestine. palestine is a name given by the romans to the land itself,  there is no such thing as a “palestinian” they are a mix of jordanians,syrians and lebanese. This concoction created by the former heads of the “palestinian” higherarcy that they are a strong peoples who are defending their land is bullshit. they had no nationalism no flag no national anthem no borders prior to israel, it is once the jews come that they decide to make a fuss , even when we accepted the 1948 partition plan which they rejected , all who watch this documentary good luck keep swallowing this propaganda and you will carry on regurjetating the shit that the western adn arab media want you to , how about you do your own research and try look at both sides of the argument before you are so quick to attack the Zionists….

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    • Hykomdamor

      you dont know anythign about zionists you idiot , everyone points to it as such a bad thing! i am a zionist and proud , it is the belief in our right to a home which you have all denied us for centuries whilst persecuting us worse than anyother in any time before.
      the poor palestinians who rejected the 1948 partition plan which gave them an arab state called palestine which FYI the jews agreed to , are now demanding we give them back what they are owed…. well i tell you over my dead body will i give my land to a person who wants not only to kill israelis but also to kill jews , a government who condones suicide bombings and human shields , you can give me all the anti israel anti zionist replies youw ant , but the reality is you have not served in the idf , you do not live here and you do not see the  reality of it , you swallow the spoonfullls of anti zionist anti semitic propaganda designed to de legitimise the state which has more of a right than any other in the world to be there. not only is this true , but there was never a state of palestine….. before israel there was the ottoman empires control over the land , then the british took it in WWI and the balfour declaration and bam you have israel , there was no palestine. palestine is a name given by the romans to the land itself,  there is no such thing as a “palestinian” they are a mix of jordanians,syrians and lebanese. This concoction created by the former heads of the “palestinian” higherarcy that they are a strong peoples who are defending their land is bullshit. they had no nationalism no flag no national anthem no borders prior to israel, it is once the jews come that they decide to make a fuss , even when we accepted the 1948 partition plan which they rejected , all who watch this documentary good luck keep swallowing this propaganda and you will carry on regurjetating the shit that the western adn arab media want you to , how about you do your own research and try look at both sides of the argument before you are so quick to attack the Zionists….

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  • Oren

    You two are both completely wrong. Objectively look at this issue. Israel has made numerous peace offers – and been shot down every time. Israel handed Gaza and the West Bank over to the Palestinians- and instead of developing infrastructure and a functioning society, they elected a terrorist group in Hamas and turned the disputed territories into massive military bases.

    I agree – its heart wrenching to see these kids suffer like this – but more of the fault lies with Yasser Arafat and his cronies than it does with the Israelis.

    If Hamas and the Palestinians spent a fraction of the energy they spend on smuggling weapons and creating more Sha’hids (martyrs) on developing a functioning society – this problem would solve itself.

    These kids simply have nothing to do – and in a society ruled by terrorists – jihad is simply the norm.

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    • Johnny

      Oren, please don’t speak of objectivity while being completely blind to reality, you clearly have never looked at all sides of this issue and Karma will make you pay at some point for falsely claiming objectivity on such a major issue.

      Israel was given land by the world(U.N) on a legal basis in 1947 under the partition plan and chose to immediately become aggressive and steal more from Palestine a year later in the bullshit war of “independence”, spitting in the faces of the world that had mistakenly helped them.

      The world has tried to correct that mistake ever since with over 100 resolutions being put forward and supported by virtually every U.N member state just to be vetoed by the U.S to prevent Israel from being forced to comply with international law and end their illegal ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

      HAMAS may employ terrorist tactics which I do not like but contrary to popular propaganda beliefs they are not breaking any laws as under international law any and all peoples have the right to resist ILLEGAL military occupation by a foreign power BY ANY MEANS AVAILABLE TO THEM.

      To say Palestinians have no right to resist Israeli occupation defies reason as much so as to say no country in WWII had the right to resist Nazi occupation, or no country during the Cold War had the right to resist Soviet occupation.

      And seeing as resistance is right in their Arab name and their Charter clearly states their formation in resistance to the illegal occupation that was 21 years old at their time of formation any attempt to say that they(Hamas) have no right to exist is in complete ignorance of reality, from ‘reality deniers’.

      The laws do not say that they have the right to resist only by specific means that are dictated to be acceptable by the military force illegally occupying their country, and/or their allies.

      Over the course of the occupation the total death toll on both sides is at least 3 to 1 Palestinians to Israelis, I believe the civilian figures alone are even more in favor of Israelis seeing as Israel has very few actual civilians what with mandatory military service being required for almost all capable Israelis(growing numbers of conscientious objectors though).

      HAMAS and other groups may seem to violate some laws with some of their actions but those laws are overridden by their greater legal right to resist by any and all means available to them.

      This is why it is extremely important for Israel to keep most people blind to the true context of the reality of those groups actually resisting an occupation by enforcing PR guidelines that use ‘conflict’ and ‘war’ or ‘terrorism’ or other terms that don’t give any credence to the idea of Palestinians having the right to fight Israeli force or the illegal nature of the Israeli occupation.

      Just like illegal Israeli settlements are referred to as peaceful Israeli ‘neighborhoods’, and the war crimes of Israel demolishing Palestinian homes on Palestinian land saying they are illegal because Israel didn’t give them permits when Israel has no legal right to enforce such control measures on Palestinian lands is never given in it’s true context.

      HAMAS has done a fair deal to try to help the Palestinian people with very few resources available while Israel keeps obliterating any progress they do make, Israel makes sure 90% of all aid gets directed to the Palestinian Authority(which Israel originally created to govern for them and create a sham political face for Palestinians) which is well known to be one of the most corrupt entities on earth and barely anything actually gets far enough to help Palestinians in any way.

      Much of it gets spent on weapons used against Israel, but Israel still keeps giving the PA the money knowing this full well. Israel has no interest in ending the violence, all of their supposed peace offers(which few people actually review in detail) have been complete shams that would have seen Israeli control simply be streamlined and become greater rather than be brought to an end as is legally required of them.

      If you would listen to a dope like Oren here you would think it is because the Palestinians refuse to be retarded idiots and willfully hand over complete control of their lives to a society that views them as gentiles(less than dogs) that Israel has the right to continue treating them like gentiles and trying to illegally control every aspect of their lives and constantly commit war crimes against them in order to ‘pacify’ them.

      Palestinians will never stop fighting as it is their legal right, yet people like Oren would have us believe that ultimately the ‘good’ guys are the people that have a massive illegal nuclear arsenal undeclared to the world that has been used to threaten other countries repeatedly by some members of government, have openly stated having no regard for international law and having clearly demonstrated this with illegal occupation, illegal settlements, illegal stealing of Palestinian water supplies, illegal blockage of medical and food aid following Israeli attacks, illegal use of illegal/banned weapons in such attacks and many other violations of international laws.

      How is it that a supposedly objective person like Oren here can come to the conclusion that the people upholding their legal rights are terrorists while those that show no regard for international laws and constantly violate them while committing war crimes unapologetically in the bullshit name of their own ‘self defense’ are not terrorists?

      The only justification Israel has these days is ‘God gave it to us’, yet despite being quite obvious their religious extremism is ignored and/or outright supported while the extremism born as a result of it specifically to fight that extremism is viewed as being evil and unjustified in any way.

      Wake the fuck up world!!!

      It was nice to see some nations of the world seemingly take action back in ’09 by declaring some of the Zionist warpigs involved in that latest attack on Gaza as being war-criminals and issuing warrants for their arrest if they entered those countries, but that is far from being enough.

      Don’t let people like Oren cloud your view of reality with his false claims of ‘objectivity’, that is one their favorite tactics – always portray themselves as having the ‘reasonable’ or ‘objective’ point of view because the natural contrast means everyone else’s views that go against theirs are radical and ‘nonobjective’ and just terrorist propaganda.

      The facts speak for themselves, the Israeli illegal occupation is the cause and the Palestinian resistance is the natural reaction, there is no chance of peace as long those making the guidelines for peace fail to recognize this fact.

      The Palestinians will not accept illegal occupation and any and all shameful shams of attempts at peace by Israel that involve the Palestinians accepting continued occupation in any way will never be accepted.

      Palestine has one of if not the youngest society on Earth thanks to Israel killing or imprisoning most of the adults, and those young people are angry and tired of being oppressed and will not give in to being herded into small patches of land completely surrounded by and dominated by Israeli control with only minimal rights to live their life’s as they wish in what the Israeli PR machine says is supposed to be their own country.

      It doesn’t take any objectivity but just a little commonsense to understand that as long as the true issue is ignored nothing is going to change, and that it’s quite obvious Israel has no intention of changing anything as they are happy to slowly grind away Palestine for now.

      Israel wants peace as much as the American KKK wants racial harmony, their own views of what that peace or harmony is will only be achieved by eliminating those that oppose it – eliminating non-Jews/Zionists and non-Whites respectively.

      Others views of what that peace or harmony may be are irrelevant and will never be acceptable. It’s their way or the highway(to hell – often courtesy of a hellfire missile) and in Israel’s case their way is ‘God gave us the land’ and all else is irrelevant.

      To honestly believe Israel wants the same kind of peace the Palestinians and the rest of the world wants is to completely and totally fool oneself and blind oneself from reality.

      And no I’m not a racist, I fully agree with Israel having the right to exist in it’s 1947 U.N agreed form, though I’d prefer no ‘Jewish state’ of Israel period since a ‘Jewish state’ is a religious extremist state.

      The only real racists involved in this issue are the Zionists themselves, they view the Jewish race as the true ‘master race’ as dictated by God himself, even though in reality Judaism is not a race at all and most Zionist Jews I interact with today claim to be atheistic and worship only ‘the Jew’ and the state of Israel while still retaining their claims of ‘God given rights’.

      Zionism = racism + illegal colonialism x religious extremism

      Virtually everything Zionists do is illegal(spitting in the face of the world and it’s accepted laws), when will the world wake up and proclaim Zionism illegal itself?

      I fear not until after it’s too late for the Palestinians, and possibly the world.

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      • Ttt60

        Wow the objectivity is just flowing from for both of you.”Palestinians will never stop fighting as it is their legal right, yet people like Oren would have us believe that ultimately the ‘good’ guys are the people that have a massive illegal nuclear arsenal” You are both Over opinionated left and right wing FOOLS!!

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        • Hykomdamor

          you dont know anythign about zionists you idiot , everyone points to it as such a bad thing! i am a zionist and proud , it is the belief in our right to a home which you have all denied us for centuries whilst persecuting us worse than anyother in any time before.
          the poor palestinians who rejected the 1948 partition plan which gave them an arab state called palestine which FYI the jews agreed to , are now demanding we give them back what they are owed…. well i tell you over my dead body will i give my land to a person who wants not only to kill israelis but also to kill jews , a government who condones suicide bombings and human shields , you can give me all the anti israel anti zionist replies youw ant , but the reality is you have not served in the idf , you do not live here and you do not see the  reality of it , you swallow the spoonfullls of anti zionist anti semitic propaganda designed to de legitimise the state which has more of a right than any other in the world to be there. not only is this true , but there was never a state of palestine….. before israel there was the ottoman empires control over the land , then the british took it in WWI and the balfour declaration and bam you have israel , there was no palestine. palestine is a name given by the romans to the land itself,  there is no such thing as a “palestinian” they are a mix of jordanians,syrians and lebanese. This concoction created by the former heads of the “palestinian” higherarcy that they are a strong peoples who are defending their land is bullshit. they had no nationalism no flag no national anthem no borders prior to israel, it is once the jews come that they decide to make a fuss , even when we accepted the 1948 partition plan which they rejected , all who watch this documentary good luck keep swallowing this propaganda and you will carry on regurjetating the shit that the western adn arab media want you to , how about you do your own research and try look at both sides of the argument before you are so quick to attack the Zionists….

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      • Hykomdamor

        you dont know anythign about zionists you idiot , everyone points to it as such a bad thing! i am a zionist and proud , it is the belief in our right to a home which you have all denied us for centuries whilst persecuting us worse than anyother in any time before.
        the poor palestinians who rejected the 1948 partition plan which gave them an arab state called palestine which FYI the jews agreed to , are now demanding we give them back what they are owed…. well i tell you over my dead body will i give my land to a person who wants not only to kill israelis but also to kill jews , a government who condones suicide bombings and human shields , you can give me all the anti israel anti zionist replies youw ant , but the reality is you have not served in the idf , you do not live here and you do not see the  reality of it , you swallow the spoonfullls of anti zionist anti semitic propaganda designed to de legitimise the state which has more of a right than any other in the world to be there. not only is this true , but there was never a state of palestine….. before israel there was the ottoman empires control over the land , then the british took it in WWI and the balfour declaration and bam you have israel , there was no palestine. palestine is a name given by the romans to the land itself,  there is no such thing as a “palestinian” they are a mix of jordanians,syrians and lebanese. This concoction created by the former heads of the “palestinian” higherarcy that they are a strong peoples who are defending their land is bullshit. they had no nationalism no flag no national anthem no borders prior to israel, it is once the jews come that they decide to make a fuss , even when we accepted the 1948 partition plan which they rejected , all who watch this documentary good luck keep swallowing this propaganda and you will carry on regurjetating the shit that the western adn arab media want you to , how about you do your own research and try look at both sides of the argument before you are so quick to attack the Zionists….

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      • Anonymous

        Everyone knows that the United States and Israel are doing what they do purely as a land grab and control of the oil and strategic placement
        for military power.
        The joke is the term “democracy” used by them both as justification to
        further expand their dominance.  Thank God for the internet for exposing what would otherwise not be shared, the history and the current events that are not told…only the propaganda. 

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  • fuckgreece

    Fuck Israel Free Palestine. Jew back Egypt start building pyramids

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    • Hykomdamor

      you dont know anythign about zionists you idiot , everyone points to it as such a bad thing! i am a zionist and proud , it is the belief in our right to a home which you have all denied us for centuries whilst persecuting us worse than anyother in any time before.
      the poor palestinians who rejected the 1948 partition plan which gave them an arab state called palestine which FYI the jews agreed to , are now demanding we give them back what they are owed…. well i tell you over my dead body will i give my land to a person who wants not only to kill israelis but also to kill jews , a government who condones suicide bombings and human shields , you can give me all the anti israel anti zionist replies youw ant , but the reality is you have not served in the idf , you do not live here and you do not see the  reality of it , you swallow the spoonfullls of anti zionist anti semitic propaganda designed to de legitimise the state which has more of a right than any other in the world to be there. not only is this true , but there was never a state of palestine….. before israel there was the ottoman empires control over the land , then the british took it in WWI and the balfour declaration and bam you have israel , there was no palestine. palestine is a name given by the romans to the land itself,  there is no such thing as a “palestinian” they are a mix of jordanians,syrians and lebanese. This concoction created by the former heads of the “palestinian” higherarcy that they are a strong peoples who are defending their land is bullshit. they had no nationalism no flag no national anthem no borders prior to israel, it is once the jews come that they decide to make a fuss , even when we accepted the 1948 partition plan which they rejected , all who watch this documentary good luck keep swallowing this propaganda and you will carry on regurjetating the shit that the western adn arab media want you to , how about you do your own research and try look at both sides of the argument before you are so quick to attack the Zionists….

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    • Czar78

      fuck ur mother u pice of shit

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    • Czar78

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    • Czar78

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    • Czar78

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  • Matt34nj

    Congratulations trolls- it looks like some of you have found a few forums here on this website where neither your language nor your inflammatory racial commentary are monitored. How pathetic.

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  • Matt34nj

    Congratulations trolls- it looks like some of you have found a few forums here on this website where neither your language nor your inflammatory racial commentary are monitored. How pathetic.

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  • Hykomdamor

    you dont know anythign about zionists you idiot , everyone points to it as such a bad thing! i am a zionist and proud , it is the belief in our right to a home which you have all denied us for centuries whilst persecuting us worse than anyother in any time before.
    the poor palestinians who rejected the 1948 partition plan which gave them an arab state called palestine which FYI the jews agreed to , are now demanding we give them back what they are owed…. well i tell you over my dead body will i give my land to a person who wants not only to kill israelis but also to kill jews , a government who condones suicide bombings and human shields , you can give me all the anti israel anti zionist replies youw ant , but the reality is you have not served in the idf , you do not live here and you do not see the  reality of it , you swallow the spoonfullls of anti zionist anti semitic propaganda designed to de legitimise the state which has more of a right than any other in the world to be there. not only is this true , but there was never a state of palestine….. before israel there was the ottoman empires control over the land , then the british took it in WWI and the balfour declaration and bam you have israel , there was no palestine. palestine is a name given by the romans to the land itself,  there is no such thing as a “palestinian” they are a mix of jordanians,syrians and lebanese. This concoction created by the former heads of the “palestinian” higherarcy that they are a strong peoples who are defending their land is bullshit. they had no nationalism no flag no national anthem no borders prior to israel, it is once the jews come that they decide to make a fuss , even when we accepted the 1948 partition plan which they rejected , all who watch this documentary good luck keep swallowing this propaganda and you will carry on regurjetating the shit that the western adn arab media want you to , how about you do your own research and try look at both sides of the argument before you are so quick to attack the Zionists….

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  • Kahny1

    Ask yourselves this question.. What would the Palestinians do if the situation was reversed and they were the ones with the guns and tanks and the Israelis were throwing the rocks? Im sure alot more violent then what you see in this film

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