If Americans Knew
If Americans Knew is a website I came across a couple of times by chance while reading other Middle Eastern blogs and just watching YouTube. The website is aimed at Americans obviously and hopes to present them with accurate information about the Palestine/Israel issue without any twisting and filtering of the media.
It’s a great website because it doesn’t complicate things. The information is there and is backed up. I think that their best section is the videos page. Apparently they produce and sell short documentaries. What they show on the videos page are the trailers to these documentaries and they are great.
The last video I saw was one called The Easiest Targets. It’s about the treatment women and children get while entering and leaving Israeli territories. The trailer doesn’t show gruesome images or sounds, but they might as well have. Just listening to the women telling their stories and then trying to just slightly pretend to imagine what it must have felt like. By the end of the video, I felt like I had been violated.
This isn’t your usually sobbing woman describing her ordeal, these are strong woman who have found their own way of dealing with that part of their past. I admire them. I’d watch it just for that. Check it out here and view it in whatever format you want.
Also, get a chance to just sit and browse through the website. It’s worth it.
