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  • 2007
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2007
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary In the summer of 2005, Israeli citizens from 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank were forced from their lands in an attempt to secure peace with the Palestinians. Jews were uprooted from their homes by fellow Jews, in an emotionally charged political event broadcast throughout the world. This film documents the l...

Directed By: Joel Blasberg, Oreet Rees

  • 2007
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2007
  • 1 h 33 m

Withdrawal from Gaza

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Summary In the summer of 2005, Israeli citizens from 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank were forced from their lands in an attempt to secure peace with the Palestinians. Jews were uprooted from their homes by fellow Jews, in an emotionally charged political event broadcast throughout the world. This film documents the l...

Directed By: Joel Blasberg, Oreet Rees

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Withdrawal's most glaring omission is the lack of any serious criticism of the settlers, whether from the Jewish left or any Palestinian point of view.
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Withdrawal From Gaza lacks both the nuance and the muscle of Yoav Shamir's excellent 2005 "5 Days," which probes far deeper into the relationship between settlers and the soldiers who came, on the orders of supersettler Ariel Sharon, to remove them.
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Production Company Highway 51
Release Date Mar 23, 2007
Duration 1 h 33 m
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