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...group of women gossiping in a hair salon hardly makes for gripping drama - except, perhaps, if the salon is in Sderot, Israel, and the women are reminiscing about life before an Israeli military blockade stopped the Palestinian men who used to commute from their homes in Gaza. "You remember Gingi the redhead?" asks one woman, as she sits having her hair blow-dried. "He used to do all the roofs. On Friday nights we'd cook couscous and invite him for dinner. We weren't scared...
...eavesdropping on doomed people. That sense is all the more acute because the audience knows how the story will soon turn out. The documentary was shot by two crews - one in Sderot and one in Gaza - between October and December last year, ending just four days before Israel unleashed on Gaza its fiercest bombing campaign in decades. The attack left an estimated 1,300 Palestinians dead and sent residents in nearby Sderot scrambling into underground shelters. But the subjects in Gaza-Sderot remain blissfully unaware of the looming disaster; there is little talk of politics at all. Instead, people...
...more subtle and less and less propaganda," says executive producer Serge Gordey in Paris. "People were not saying the same mantra over and over." The documentary, which will screen at the South-by-Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, on March 17, as well as on television networks in Israel, Canada, the Netherlands and Sweden in the coming months, breaks the mold in another way, too. Though funded by the French-German television channel Arte, Gaza-Sderot was created for the Internet, reversing the typical order in which films show on television and are then posted online. While filming...
Just as the communities along the border of Gaza and Israel are divided by a wall, the web page is sliced down the middle by a red dotted line; the people on each side remain unaware, and sometimes uninterested, in what is happening on the other. Inevitably, there are strong echoes between the two communities, especially because Sderot's Jews are largely immigrants from North African countries that are culturally close to Gaza. At times it is hard to distinguish which side is which, as when a Moroccan wedding party in Sderot melts into a wedding party in Gaza City...
...earmarks in the current bill, yet have the gall to blast Obama's cave-in? Even John McCain, the leading crusader against earmarks, who railed against Obama's acceptance of the spending bill on the Senate floor this week, made exceptions during his presidential campaign for earmarks for Israel and military housing, as well as a ferry service for an impoverished Alabama town he visited over the summer...