Links to three reports: from Middle East Monitor, Middle East Eye, and National Public Radio, and to a film review from NPR, followed by a note from a reporter on the mend and a link to his latest report from Substack; other published material is accessible by clicking on their highlighted names or initials. (SYRIA, WEST BANK, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up. MEDIA 2-26-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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FROM MARCH 3 Palestinian-Israeli film on displacement of Palestinians wins an Oscar. From Middle East Monitor. Palestinian-Israeli film “No Other Land” won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscar ceremony Sunday night. Produced by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, it follows . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MARCH 3 ‘No Other Land’: Palestinian-Israeli film’s Oscar win sparks outrage in Israel, by Nadav Rapaport | Middle East Eye Israeli government officials, actors and the media industry have lashed out at Hollywood and the directors of the Israeli-Palestinian film “No Other Land” after it won the best documentary film award . . . Click HERE to read the rest, and HERE for report from NPR.
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FROM JAN. 31 Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers team up to create ‘No Other Land.’ Review by Justin Chang | NPR This isn’t just the most powerful nonfiction film I saw in 2024; it also had one of the year’s more remarkable off-screen narratives. The movie brings us into Masafer Yatta, a community of Palestinian villages in the Israeli-occupied southern West Bank . . . Click HERE to listen and read.
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Reporter takes week off. A Feb. 28 “Note to Readers” from Seymour Hersh reads: “There is a lot going on, and I have a lot to say, but not this week. I had the first of two knee replacements on Tuesday—the price of playing a lot of sports all my life—and the game now is to stay ahead of pain, which is acute. So I am chugging more pills than ever before, and if I sat down at the desk I would write gibberish and think I was Harold Pinter.” Nevertheless, “Trump Downgrades the U.S. Military” came in from him dated March 3.
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