‘No Other Land’ Directors Denounce Trump Gaza Takeover Plan: “It Is So Irresponsible, It’s So Immoral”
deadline.comThe directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary No Other Land are sharply criticizing Pres. Trump’s plan for the U.S. to take control of Gaza and dispatch its Palestinian inhabitants to other Arab countries.
In an interview with Deadline, Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham said Trump’s idea amounted to “ethnically cleansing Gaza… It is so irresponsible, it’s so immoral.” “It’s shocking,” added Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra, who along with Abraham make up half the quartet of Israeli and Palestinian directors nominated for No Other Land, which is set in the Israeli occupied West Bank. “This is a stupid thing to say, what he’s saying about Gaza, like take 2 million people and to build for them a land here or there, or just to take them out.
And sometimes he said that they would come back [to Gaza] and sometimes saying they will never come back.” Adra continued, “It’s insane and a crazy thing.
And he’s just saying things from a perspective of power, that he feels there are no consequences for his words and his actions.
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