From "Little Town" to Little Truth

Omri sent me here for a new anti-Zionist film targetting Christians entitled, "Little Town of Bethlehem".

From the press hype:

Sami, Ahmad, Yonatan come from radically different backgrounds in a land of unending war. Yet, against all odds, including some within their Israeli and Palestinian communities, they are able to find common ground. They walk a path of nonviolence struggle in lockstep with Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. For them courage is found not in taking up arms, but setting them down once and for all and extending a hand in peace.

Indeed, the theme of 'violence' figures right up front.

The "Hagana attacks" and a "sniper kills" but not a word, at least in this trailer, that the Arabs had been conducting a violent terror campaign against Jewish civilians since 1920, killing hundreds and ethnically-cleansing several residency locations.  Nothing about the Mufti, the pre-eminent local Arab leader, collaborating with Hitler.  Not a word that the violence of 1947-49 was initiated by the Arabs, first by rejecting any compromise as proffered by the UN's Partition Plan, second by engaging again in violence directed at civilians beginning on December 1, 1947 and last by the invasion of Israel by seven Arab states on May 15, 1948.  Not a word about that 1950s' fedayeen and that the PLO's Fatah began in 1964.

Scenes of Israeli police breaking up Arab demonstrations are paralleled to and almost superimposed on police in the American South beating Blacks during the 1960s.  The film claims there's a "Palestinian no-violent struggle for liberation".  Really?  Where?  Every single Friday, at a half-dozen locations, Arabs gather to protest and - yes, throw rocks and there are Western media sympathizers who describe that as non-violent.

I am informed that the film is

...making its way through the campus circuit, both secular and Christian. After that it's set to migrate to conferences - almost certainly the next Christ at the Checkpoint conference, which Awad functionally hosts - and from there to churches. The director, Jim Hanon, is already well-known in evangelical circles for his film, "End of the Spear".

I appreciate assistance to Arabs, even without missionary activity, but I try not to countenance historical perversion and cinema tricks.  And I hope they'll note that Bethlehem, where David was crowned, was a Jewish city in Judea.

I hope my Christian friends will review the film and make a proper judgment as regards its reliability.

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