Product Details

• Directors: Anna Baltzer
• Format: DVD
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Run Time: 59 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0930852478
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,993 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A wonderfully moving introduction to the plight of the Palestinians, in simple, everyday terms, with a captivating narration by eyewitness Anna Baltzer. Anna Baltzer, a Jewish-American Columbia graduate and Fulbright scholar, presents her discoveries as a volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service in the West Bank, documenting human rights abuses and supporting Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance to the Occupation. Baltzer's presentation provides those interested in the Israel/ Palestine conflict with critical information and documentation that can be difficult to obtain through mainstream Western media sources, and to encourage dialog towards taking action on the issue. Topics discussed include checkpoints, settlements, Israeli activism, Zionism, 1948 War & refugees, censorship, the Wall, the ongoing annexation of Palestinian land, and the almost unbearable living conditions under the occupation. The grand-daughter of Holocaust refugees, Baltzer works to address the injustices of today in light of those of the past. She is the author of the book Witness in Palestine.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars outstanding documentary, January 10, 2009

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J. Jewell (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories & Photos (DVD)

Anna Baltzer's documentary on life in Occupied Palestine is outstanding.
As a young Jewish American who went out to Israel, and then visited the Occupied Territories, she was horrified by what she saw, and produced this documentary as well as the book, Witness in Palestine.
If people want to know what is really going on in Palestine, watch this DVD; you will not be disappointed.
I first watched it with a group of friends, and several times we broke into spontaneous applause over Anna Baltzer's excellent commentary.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a sobering call, February 13, 2011

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M. R. Alfawakhiri "M. Raghdan Al-Fawakhiri,MD" (Van Wert, OH, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories & Photos (DVD)

This movie approaches the question of occupation from the point-of-view of people living under it. How it affects ordinary lives? how ordinary people, not soldiers or terrorists, would be crushed by the brutality of Israeli occupation? How their dreams are evaporating, and human rights we think of as a given in "the only democracy in the middle east", are being squashed and violated? This DVD is a sobering call, telling us how our tax monies are being used to abuse the daily lives of innocent people in the Holy Land, and how our perception of Israel as a democracy does not stand the test of Israel's actions as an occupying military force, intoxicated with overwhelming power to the extent of not noticing the crying eyes of the palestinian children, and the fragmented dreams of their parents. We keep asking why do they hate us, ... watch this DVD, and put yourself and your kids on the recieving end of the Israeli stick (paid for by our USA tax monies). A sobering call indeed!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should have won some documentary award, March 7, 2010

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Hercule Poirot (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories & Photos (DVD)

I saw the movie on Free Speech TV or Link TV Channel and I was blown away by Baltzer's flawless film. Like Ms. Baltzer, I too was blinded by one-sideness of the Israel-Arab-Palestinian conflict. I do agree that Israel had the right to defend herself because of the threat of military invasion in 1967, and the Jews had the right to become a state after being expelled from Israel for centuaries plus of what happened to them in the Holocaust. However, I do not approve of how the Israelis have become the oppressors instead of the oppressed with all the laws that have been written to favor the Jews. It is like having commerce laws favor American corporations instead of protecting American customers and workers. Ms. Baltzer also talks about how the Palestians have lost their businesses because of the checkpoints. Its kind of like WalMart or some big corporations wiping out mom and pop stores. It is also kind of like aparthied and racism in South Africa and the United States where blacks and various Asian groups were not allowed to own property, investments, and restricted to very few occupations to make a living.

Ms. Baltzer techincal skills in the use of maps to illustate the effects of the day to day realities of oppression are impressive. It is really shameful that the average Israel citizen gets more money from the U.S. government than your American citizen.

This film should have won several awards at the various independent film festivals such as the Sundance Film Festival.