The Road to Jenin

An eye opening film by an independent French film maker Pierre Rehov, which was meant to both counter the claims of a massacre there, expose the Israeli side and rebut the propaganda piece "Jenin Jenin" by Mohammad Bakri (Israeli born arab, btw).

Directed and produced by Pierre Rehov -
Co-Produced by Michael Grynszpan
English, Arabic, Hebrew and French with English subtitles
52 minutes

(abstracts from a CAMERA review)

The Road to Jenin by French director Pierre Rehov, depicts a moral Israeli army fighting a just war against armed Palestinians in a hotbed of terrorism which spawned more than half the suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. Among the terrorists from Jenin, for instance, was the killer who took 29 lives in the Passover bombing of the Park Hotel days before.

Israel initially took the dangerous step of sending infantry to fight house-to-house so as to minimize civilian casualties. After nearly two dozen of their own men were lost to ambushes, Palestinian snipers, and booby-trapped houses, Israel brought in bulldozers for use in a limited area, a step which led to the surrender of the Palestinian fighters. (No air attacks were involved.) Can these disparate accounts both in terms of the facts of the specific incidents they describe, as well the bigger pictures they represent be reconciled ?

Among the most disputed and misrepresented facts about the fighting in Jenin was the number of Palestinians killed and the extent of the destruction. Initially, Palestinian officials claimed that hundreds were killed in the "Jenin massacre."

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