WITHOUT JUSTICE REVENGE WILL ENSUE
March 16, 2024In an interview on Skynews discussing her new film The Teacher, which focuses on ??? filmmaker Farah Nabulsi raises an important point relating to the war on Gaza and how Israel’s disproportionate attack has created a generation of children who have been orphaned, maimed and traumatised and how this can only lead to more violence in the future if there is no justice.
“Justice means different things to different people,” Nabulsi says.
“When tens of thousands of Palestinian children are being orphaned or tens of thousands of Palestinians are having their children killed, without justice, a deep-rooted hate will develop, thus pursuit of revenge.”
A relevant and thought-provoking consideration.
Nabulsi’s film, The Teacher, focuses on a Palestinian school teacher who struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new relationship with a volunteer worker.
Themes that impact every Palestinian every day.
Highly recommend watching the movie and this interview.
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English Script:
Yalda Hakim: When you talk about justice, people seeking justice, I guess, is going to be a whole other conversation once this conflict ends, because justice means different things for different people. And I guess both sides are seeking some form of justice and that can translate into things like revenge, for example.
Farah Nabulsi: I think that’s definitely a theme of the film, actually, this idea that the teacher is trying to guide his student to sort of differentiate between the pursuit of justice and revenge. But I can’t help but think when tens of thousands of Palestinian children are being orphaned or tens of thousands of Palestinians are having their children killed or maimed and so forth, if there is no justice, surely, at least for the majority, a deep rooted hate will develop and manifest, and without justice, the pursuit of revenge.
Yalda Hakim: So again, that’s the worry here. So many people, guests we’ve had on the program, analysts who have spoken about this, what is going on could lead to something even more dangerous, given there are so many children now that have been orphaned.
Farah Nabulsi: Absolutely. I mean, and at the end of the day, we don’t just think about the deaths and the injuries. Think about the sort of lives that have been uprooted and destroyed. And again, I come back to this idea of the student and the teacher, the schools that have been destroyed, the universities, the hospitals. So it’s not just about death and injury. It’s also about how do they carry on, how do they exist, how do they survive? And that’s also going to lead…And we’re talking about 2 million people here, not just the 100,000 who are killed and maimed and injured, but an entire population. So the level of trauma and recovery, where are we going with that?
