Could this film be more overblown dramatic and one sided ?
Could this film be more overblown dramatic and one sided ? Figure it out, in this country we use eminent domain to force people out of their homes to build roads, schools and even commercial properties if the municipality believes that a strip mall will generate more tax revenue than existing homes. Also do you think the Feds or the Secret Service would act any differently if property adjacent to the Bush ranch in Crawford Texas or Cheney’s home posed a surveillance or security problem? Also tell me where else in the entire Middle East would a person with a grievance against the government have access to courts, due process, compensation for appropriated property and a free press to air grievances against the government. Do you think that Assad in Syria or the Palestinian Authority, for that matter, would offer compensation, allow any public grievance or allow access to any due process? An entire neighborhood of homes near where I live was condemned, the owners forced to sell, weather they liked it or not, and the homes, torn down so that the city could build its tax base with a strip mall. So please spare me the poor downtrodden grim Palestinian widow. To make this into some kind of dramatic David and Goliath story rather than the kind of ordinary unfortunate event that occurs regularly in this country and every Democracy is bogus and intellectually dishonest. There are legitimate issues regarding Israeli/ Palestinian relations but this is not one of them and this grim old lady should just take the money and get over it already-it could happen to you or me any day right here in the U.S
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