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"Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck.
On the twentieth anniversary of the October riots, 11 tonight will broadcast the docu "Ten Days in October" here.
Eyal Datz, the film's director, arrived on the Walla!
Culture explain how it is that no police officer paid a price for the deaths of 13 Arab protesters
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Avner Shavit
Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 12:00 p.m.
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Twenty years ago, Israel experienced one of the most difficult events in its history: the October 2000 riots, which began with the ascent of Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount, and escalated into violent riots. 14 people died, including 12 Arab-Israeli protesters, a Palestinian who was not an Israeli citizen and one Jewish citizen.
But as difficult as the events were, it seems that two decades later, Israeli society has preferred to suppress them, and local culture is preoccupied with Corona, at peace with the Emirates or just with escapism.
The only exception is "Ten Days in October," Eyal Datz's documentary, which will air today (Wednesday) here at 11:15 p.m.
Prior to the broadcast, the creator came to be a guest on the Walla Culture podcast.
The film is made up entirely of archive footage, with no contemporary interviews, and it also has materials that have not yet been revealed, not all of which are easy to watch.
"The documentation I had the hardest time viewing is of the events in Tiberias," says Datz.
"People took to the streets, broke Arab shops, stormed the old mosque in the city and burned it. I obtained a tape documenting these events from beginning to end. A news photographer insisted on doing his job and documenting everything, even threatening them. The materials came to me and as a Jew, I have a hard time. To see the sight of a lot of Jews behaving like this. "
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"As a Jew, it was hard for me to see the appearance of a lot of Jews behaving like that."
Eyal Datz (courtesy of the photographer)
The riots included acts of vandalism and violence by Jews, stormy demonstrations by Arab-Israelis and worst of all, police shootings that led to the many deaths.
It is often said that Israel guard to blame, but this time the opposite happened: former acting prime minister, Ehud Barak, paid his political career, as well as former Interior Security Minister Shlomo Ben Ami, but the officers who carried out the shooting did not bear the consequences.
"Police are sitting today With blood on their hands that did not pay a price, "says Datz." These are people who deliberately shot with the intent to kill.
You do not shoot someone's torso if you are not trying to kill.
Why did nothing happen?
You don't have to watch TV series to know that systems are self-defending.
"There was cover-up and plastering in the DIP investigation. There are families whose loved ones were killed and they will never know who killed them."
Datz visits the demonstrations in Balfour every week, and he says that in light of all the information revealed to him about the October riots, it is difficult for him to get excited about the allegations of police violence today.
"I know how demonstrations have been scattered here in the past, and I know what would have happened if the protesters in Balfour were Arabs or Ethiopians," he says.
"It all stems from prejudice. A police officer acts according to what he defines as threats, and the perception he was educated about is that Arabs are a threat, so he acts more violently. In the October riots, the police's perception was that he was an enemy coming to make a coup and rape our girls."
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No contemporary interviews.
From "Ten Days in October" (Photo: PR)
And also: why is the film based only on archive footage, what would Ehud Barak have asked today if he had met him, and could these riots be repeated?
In addition to "Ten Days in October", Datz has also signed several other documentaries available here 11 - the film "I will hide my face" and the series "Rabbeinu" and "Stories".
Most of these deal with the ultra-Orthodox world, and he explains what made him, as a secular Tel Avivite, connect to these issues, and how he managed to complete so many projects even though he did not study cinema.
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