Kufr Shuba

Directed by Samir Nimr

The central theme in this picture is the alliance between Palestinians and progressive Lebanese in the south of Lebanon. There in January 1975 the Israeli forces attacked the Lebanese village of Kfar Chouba. Israel said it was a retaliation. It was its way of expressing its discontent with the political successes gained by the PLO, culminating in the speech of Yasser Arafat before the General Assembly of the United Nations in November 1974. The film shows some fragments of this speech.