At one point in their award-winning documentary No Other Land, Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra tells his Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham that he is too impatient to see an end to his country’s occupation of the West Bank – that he believes he just needs 10 days of writing and filming and it will be over.
“Get used to failing,” Adra sardonically tells Abraham, as they drive around his home of Masafar Yatta, a collection of villages south of Hebron. “You’re a loser.”
In 2024, 57 years into Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and more than three quarters of a century after the Nakba that saw more than 700,000 Palestinians driven from their homelands, it can be harder than ever to believe yet another article, or report, or documentary could finally push the world to act. ….more
