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Subject: Have You Seen
This?
"RELENTLESS":
THE MOVIE THAT GETS PEOPLE INVOLVED
With "everyone talking about" improving Israel's information
campaign, it appears that someone has finally done something about it. HonestReporting.com,
a global organization dedicated to fighting media bias against Israel, has
produced an hour-long documentary film named "Relentless,"
showing how Israel has been terrorized by the Oslo process. Seen to date
by many tens of thousands of people, the movie boasts a remarkable
"success" rate; 80% of those who watched the movie in New York and Los
Angeles theaters expressed a desire to be more involved in Israel
activism.
The film's title is an apparent hint at its step-by-grueling-step description
of the process by which Israel and the Arabs reached the catastrophic situation
in which they find themselves today. The Arabs rejected the United
Nations partition in 1947, see the Jews as land-thieves, and started a war on
this basis. The Jews, on the other hand, backed by the UN and their own
history, are convinced that Israel is their home. "Two peoples, one
land," the film states, and then gets down to brass tacks: "What has
each side done to solve the problem and bring peace?"
"Relentless" responds by presenting a detailed analysis of the Oslo
Agreement, the obligations both sides took upon themselves, and the extent to
which they each fulfilled them. With facts, documentation, and analysis
by Raanan Gissin, Caroline Glick, Itamar Marcus, and others, as well as footage
of Arab spokesmen, viewers are guided along as they watch the history of the
past ten years unfold before their eyes.
In return for Israel giving up 42% of Yesha, teaching its people the importance
of peace, implementing pro-PA policies, and giving arms to an Arab police force
in Yesha, the PA was supposed to take some steps of its own. It did not -
as painstakingly documented in the film. The PA violations include not
having changed the charter calling for Israel's destruction "via armed
struggle" and not protecting holy Jewish sites in Bethlehem, Jericho, and Shechem.
But "Relentless" is at its most relentless in detailing two main PA
violations: how it did not stop terror, and how it continued to encourage
anti-Israel incitement in its textbooks, media, and government
statements. Interviews with terror victims and scenes of attacks bring
home a powerful message, as do those of televised incitement and war-training
summer camps for children.
Despite all, in 1999, Israel elected Ehud Barak, whose generous offer of 97% of
Yesha Arafat coldly rejected - leading to the outbreak of the Oslo War.
The viewer is here treated to now-chilling scenes of Barak and Arafat joking
with each other in Camp David. Lest one think that it was Ariel Sharon's
visit to the Temple Mount that led to the war, priceless footage of a speech by
PA Information Minister Imad Falouji is shown:
"Whoever
thinks that this [war] started as a result of Sharon's despicable visit to Al Aksa
is in error," Falouji tells the crowd. "It was planned since Arafat's
return from Camp David [where he] firmly stood up to Clinton and rejected the U.S.
terms. Arafat is the first president to firmly tell the U.S., while in the
heart of America, that he rejects their terms!"
"Relentless" concludes by asking why *did* the PA reject Barak's
generous terms? The answer, with detailed documentation, is
straightforward: The Arabs want all of Israel, and not merely Yesha. PA
maps, showing no Israel, teach that "Israel is temporary and will be
destroyed."
HonestReporting.com reports that over 18,000 North Americans have attended 100
theater showings, including events co-sponsored by AIPAC, the Israeli
Consulate, Jewish Federations, ADL, JNF, Aish HaTorah, churches and JCC's.
The film has also been shown on television five times, has been distributed to
half of the U.S. Congress, and has been screened to 5,000 people in South
Africa. Over 60 events on five continents are scheduled for the next
two months, and the goal is to play it for over 100,000 people in the coming
six months, as well as distribute 100,000 copies of the film. Click here to
see a trailer of the film or to plan a viewing.
