Fil Mishmish - المشمش في -
When the apricots bloom
"Fil Mishmish" documents the state of the occupation today in the Palestinian territories and the evolution of the conflict, exactly 30 years after the signing of the Oslo Accords (September 1993).
If political speeches continue to push the idea of a "two-state solution"- which the Oslo accords were suppose to make happen -, on the ground, far from the talk, the hatched colored maps, and the endless peace process announcements, the reality of a full-fledged Palestinian state is nothing more than an illusion.
The West Bank, surrounded by a concrete wall of over 700 km, has become a fragmented territory, crossed by settlements and roads under Israeli military control, an archipelago of separate islets bending under the weight and grayness of all the cement. Half a million settlers live in the West Bank today, five times more than when the Oslo Accords were signed. Walls, fences, checkpoints, cameras and surveillance towers, settlements – from outposts made of odds and ends to real cities with shopping centers and amusement parks – are the many faces of the architecture of occupation that has taken hold.