The Iron Wall
Concordia University (Montreal)
Monday November 5, 2007
Screening begins 19h30
Venue: Room H-110, Concordia's Hall Building
Palestine / 2006 / 52min / English, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
This film is part of a double bill, to be screened with Raised to be Heroes and co-sponsored by Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU)
In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote:
"Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population - behind an The Iron Wall , which the native population cannot breach." First published in Russian under the title O Zheleznoi Stene in Rassvyet, 4 November 1923.
From that day these words became the official and unspoken policy of the Zionist movement and later the state of Israel. Settlements were used from the beginning to create a Zionist foothold in Palestine.
The Iron Wall documentary exposes this phenomenon and follows the timeline, size, population of the settlements, and its impact on the peace process. This film also touches on the latest project to make the settlements a permanent fact on the ground; the wall that Israel is building in the West Bank and its impact on the Palestinian people.
