‘We’re All on the Front Line’: How Film Brings Gaza to the World

By Benay Blend

For Palestinians, there is no ambiguity about the identity of the monsters that they face.  They have had plenty of time since the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948.

In their 1988 book How the War was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam, Leonard Quart and Albert Auster noted that there were very few fiction films that dealt directly with the war. It took some time to reflect on the many aspects of…