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At the end of the 19th century, Zionism, a minority political movement, appeared on the international stage. As theorised by its historical leaders, it embodied the desire to create a Jewish state somewhere in the world and particularly in Palestine. At the time and for thousands of years, "the land speaks arabic", Palestine being inhabited by the Palestinians. How would the Zionists leaders manage then to reconcile their political ambitions with the reality on the ground in Palestine at that time? The solution had been planned out well before the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The Zionist leaders developed plans, set them and later carried them by transferring the Palestinians out of their land. All possible means would be employed. Based on Zionist leader's quotations, unused footage, the press of that period, official documents, interviews of historians and testimonies of pre 1948 Palestinians, The Land Speaks Arabic trains a historian and a filmmaker's eye on the explosive truth, that of the cleansing of the land of Palestine by the Zionists.

Greece - 2007 - 1 h 01 mn - DV Cam • 4/3 • PAL - Colour and B&W

Director Maryse Gargour Camera Hanna Abu Saada, Stelios Apostolopoulos Sound Alaa Khoury Editing Despina Kontargyri

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