Under Fire & Scorched Summer: Two incredible films about the Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006

Dr. Avi Naiman, who produced these films with his own money, is the Executive Director of IDEAS, Israel Documentaries for Education And Scholarship. IDEAS is a non-profit organization devoted to educating the public about the State of Israel through documentaries and informational material about Israel.

Their goal is to reach the general public who knows little about Israel beyond conflict and religious extremism, by creating eye-catching video clips on Israel's vibrancy, modernity, freedoms, and contributions to the world. The two films described below are available for watching in their entirety.

Film #1. Under Fire: Personal Stories from the Scorched Summer of 2006

Under Fire tells the stories of four Israeli families, two Arab and two Jewish, whose loved ones were killed during the Second Lebanon War in the Summer of 2006: a mother and her two daughters chatting in their yard; a young father working at the train depot; another father running to get his little girl a blanket; a lifeguard trying to save his mother and sister. Surviving family members share their eyewitness accounts, as well as their pleas for future peace. Their stories are told against the backdrop of authentic footage from the war, showing the devastation inflicted upon the Israeli civilian population.

You can watch Under Fire by clicking on this link:

http://www.underfiredocumentary.com/watch-film.asp?l=

Film #2: Scorched Summer: The Second Lebanon War Through Civilian Eyes

Scorched Summer shows the impact of the Second Lebanon War on Israel's civilian population. The facts of the war are presented through the lenses of citizens and visitors, personal stories of the injured and killed, and interviews of residents and emergency workers. The film tells humanitarian stories of lives thrown into turmoil or ended prematurely, including the story of Karnit Goldwasser, whose reserve-soldier husband, Udi, was kidnapped and murdered by Hezbollah. Scorched Summer contains 40 minutes of additional material not included in Under Fire.

You can watch Scorched Summer by clicking on this link:

http://www.scorchedsummer.com/watch-film.asp?l=

These films tell the stories that the mainstream media refused to tell: Hezbollah's war crimes against both Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War. Hezbollah fired over 4,000 rockets, filled with nails, razors, ball bearings, and rat posion, directly at civilian homes, hospitals, and schools in Haifa, Israel.

Death was not the worst thing that Arab and Jewish civilians suffered from these daily and nightly barrages of rockets. Less than 15 seconds is all that separates women and children from horrible, life-threatening injuries and safety inside a shelter. If children were fortunate to get inside a shelter, they were still scarred for life by the psychological trauma suffered from these incessant and indiscriminant attacks.

Yet, the world continously turns a blind eye to these blatant war crimes, and focuses only on the civilian casualties allegedly caused by the IDF, casualties directly resulting from Hezbollah's deliberate use of children as human shields, and deliberate use of civilian centers from which to fire their rockets.

Hamas used the same tactics, and predictably, the world blamed Israel for trying to stop the rocket attacks from Gaza into Sderot, Israel, that numbered over 6,000.

Firing weapons from civilian centers is a war crime. Using human shields is a war crime. Attacking Israeli soldiers from the top of mosques, schools, and hospitals, hoping to draw their fire is a war crime. Using ambulances to transport militants and arms is a war crime. Firing rockets filled with nails, razors, ball bearings, and rat posion are inexcusable war crimes.

But, the bleeding-heart, Leftist "Human Rights Groups" ignore these war crimes and believe stories about the IDF using "white phosphorous" against Palestinian civilians -- a flat-out lie that these butchers have repeated every time Israel attacks terrorists in Lebanon or Gaza to stop the rocket fire.

Now, President Kowtow will play this charade once again, but with deadlier consequences. He'll forget about all of these war crimes committed by the same people he wants to force Israel to accept, inside and outside, its "original borders" -- borders which the Arab World has refused to recognize since 1948.

If Israel is forced to accept another terrorist entity in the West Bank, all of Israel will be in rocket range and there won't be anything to stop these pathological psychokillers from fulfilling their dream of destroying Israel.

Gaza is living proof that Palestinians cannot run their own state and don't deserve another one.

Hillary smooching Suha Arafat after the latter's libeling Jooz for gazzing the chill-dren.
Arafat was the favorite house guest of the pair that sent Carville to help Ehud Barak beat Benjamin Netanyahu.
Now the Very Strange Michelle (who "grew up in Jesse Jackson's house) and Hussein ("I Bow to the Keeper of the Holy Sites") attempt to intimidate Israel.
Israel is conducting air raids.
Hussein continues to favor the Holocaust Denier Rat Boy in Tehran over our sole democratic ally in the region.
Protecting I'm-a-Genocide's frenzied efforts to get the bomb to destroy Israel.
This is the mark of the ladyboy president--date night with Kong confident in the efforts of the mad-dog mullahs to actually do that which he wishes done.

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