9.17.2008

Nakba Documentary

Director Ryuichi Hirokawa went to Israel in 1967 and worked on a kibbutz. One day he found rubble at the edge of the kibbutz that later proved to be the remains of a village once lived in by the Palestinian people; his friend showed him an English map where next to the names of Palestinian villages was printed the word “destroyed." It was evidence of the fact that the Kibbutz had been founded on the land where this destroyed Palestinian village once stood. Hirokawa’s journey to find out what had happened to the village started at that moment. In his journey into the past, he learned about the NAKBA and a history which had been waiting to be revealed.

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