from beirut to bosnia... and return

«It is a tragedy of both our people. How can I explain in my poor English? I think the Arabs have the same rights as the Jews and I think it is a tragedy of history that a people who are refugees make new refugees.I have nothing against the Arabs ...They are the same as us. I don’t know that we Jews did this tragedy — but it happened.» Shlomo Green, Jewish refugee from the Nazis,on learning that his home in Israel was taken from a Palestinian family in 1948.(R. Fisk, Pity the Nation) FROM BEIRUT TO BOSNIA - MUSLIMS AND THE WESTR. FISK1993 Part ITHE MARTYR'S SMILEPart IITHE ROAD TO PALESTINEPart IIITHE ENDS OF THE EARTHFrom Beirut to Bosnia is a three part documentary by Robert Fisk shown on the Discovery Channel focusing on Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and Bosnia. It spans different nations and different peoples, but the problems and tragedies, the false hopes and betrayals, these are always the same. Muslims all over the world bear the brunt of Western foreign policy and local dictatorial rule. They pay the price of these policies and adventures with their land, freedom, property and lives. This mixture, of oppression, poverty and abuse has alienated millions of Muslims from their own governments as well as from some in the West. Today we witness a region on fire, plagued with instability. Robert Fisk analyses some of the root causes of the conflicts and tragedies we hear about daily.This Films for the Humanities production focuses its capable eye on Lebanon's guerilla war that aims to liberate southern Lebanon from Israeli control. The scope of this tragic conflict is brought into sharp focus in this documentary through the use of extensive interviews with participants from the Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad movements, views of civilian casualties caused by Israeli air attacks, and photographic evidence of the ongoing destruction of life and property in the region. The viewer should be advised that this video contains some disturbing scenes of this conflict.BEIRUT15.08.2013 Photo: Mahmoud Kheir (Reuters/Contrasto)