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Birmingham International Film Society presents - Jerusalem: The East Side Story

WMPSC list subscriber | 22.06.2008 11:59 | Analysis | Palestine | Birmingham

Thursday 26th June 2008

Birmingham International Film Society presents:
Jerusalem: The East Side Story (15)

Dir. Mohammed Alatar Israel/Palestine 2007 57mins

“The air above Jerusalem is filled with prayers and dreams/ Like air above cities with heavy industry/ Hard to breathe/ From time to time a new shipment of history arrives' - Yehuda Amichai

A documentary of the history of perhaps the most hotly contested city in the world. From the director of the acclaimed documentary The Iron Wall, this film is a dramatic catalogue of the effects and consequences of the 42-year Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem. Featuring interviews with a broad spectrum of Palestinian and Israeli leaders, human rights activists and political analysts.

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Screening with post-show discussion 7.30pm at Birmingham Library Theatre

Tickets: £3.50/£2.50 (Concessions) available from the Central Library Tel: 0121 303 2323 and online at

http://www.birminghamboxoffice.com

For further information lookout for leaflets at arts venues and libraries or contact:

bhamifs@hotmail.co.uk

For information on the Library Theatre ring 0121 303 2868

The entrance to Birmingham Library Theatre is situated by the Central Library between Birmingham Conservatoire and Paradise Forum. Disabled access (before 8.00pm) is by Reception in the Library.

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23.06.2008 03:06

The Arab population of East Jerusalem is growing.

Demolished houses do not have planning permission.

Israeli policy allows all communities a quarter of the Old City and all to have places of worship, even as the Christian communities have an uneasy partition among themselves of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

In contrast, the Jews were driven out of the Jewish Quarter after the Jordanian conquest of 1948, the Great Synagogue destroyed and other synagogues turned into barns, Jews could not reach the Wailing Wall.

Occasionally there are organized barrages of rocks from the Temple Mount on the Jews worshipping at the Wailing Wall, on at least one occasion co-ordinated by a signal using lights in the Al-Asqa Mosque.

The history of the First and Second Temple is common to all three main Abrahamic faiths.

A shipment of history was destroyed around 2000-2002 when the Waqf excavating new prayer halls in the Temple Mount dug up 13,000 tonnes of rubble containing artefacts from the First and Second Temple period with bulldozers and dumped it.

http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp483.htm

Jews and Christians pray discreetly but amplified Muezzin calls blare everywhere.

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