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There were so many wonderfully orchestrated shots, so many good characters among the settlers, that I kept thinking it was a waste the movie wasn't more serious with its material.
It's set in 16th century Brazil, where rival French and Portuguese settlers are exploiting the indigineous people as confederates in their battle to assert dominance.
Kentuckian Lance Fuller heads west with a wagon train and his one-hundred rifles meant for the settlers of California.
It was highly reminiscent of both THE BATTLE OF ELDERBUSH GULCH and THE LAST DROP OF WATER--two other Western shorts he made in 1913 and 1911--as they were all about Indian massacres of White settlers.
We want him to succeed because he wants to succeed, but we want him to fail for his own good (and that of his very sympathetically portrayed wife, not to mention all the settlers in Arizona).
This film is brilliant, because it defies conventional stereotypes of European settlers and American Indians.
The white settlers really want to be nice to the good Indians, but somehow they all get killed in the big gun battle.
In 1763 in colonial America, Martin Garth(howard Da Silva), a trader, secretly trades guns to the Indians in order to stop the westward movement of settlers, Garth tries to purchase young Abby Hale (Paulette Goddard), a British servant for his own interests, but a Virginia Capt.
This is a moving fable, dealing with the issues of the 'loss of the wild', the crushing of Native American culture by the unspeakable brutalities of white settlers, the betrayals of trust which deprived the Indians of their habitats, and the continuing psychological perversion of bitter people who want to stop the innocent enjoyment of life by shattering the dreams and the enforcement of degradation upon those too weak to protect themselves.
The settlers the men died for don't even have the decency to bury them and then the final straw was the kid throwing his gun away after the burial.
Sharon's latest statements, though, explicitly specified the settlements to be evacuated; the Director of the National Security Council, General Giora Eiland, was appointed to chair an inter-ministerial Relocation Committee and work out plans for conducting the evacuations, including compensation for relocated settlers.
Yet Jewish settlements, built mainly under the right-wing governments of Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and Benjamin Netanyahu, remain in place, and relations between settlers - some of them extremely radical nationalists - and Palestinians remain raw.
He has made clear that perhaps 30,000 settlers, may be evacuated to Israel proper or could remain in their homes under Palestinian rule.
But the Palestinians want all the settlers to leave, a political impossibility for any Israeli government.
In Zimbabwe, colonial land ownership patterns that gave most of the viable farmland to white settlers are at least one root of the country's current crisis.
Starting in the early 1970’s, religious Israeli settlers and hard-line Israeli nationalists pushed Israel into a disastrous policy of creating and expanding settlements on Arab lands in the West Bank, in violation of common sense and international diplomacy.
For the past ten years, the greatest practical barrier to peace has been Israel’s failure to carry out any true withdrawal to its 1967 borders, owing to the political weight of hundreds of thousands of settlers in the West Bank and the religious and secular communities that support them.
Arabs express their disdain for Zionism by equating the Zionist project to the creation of a colony, to which millions of Jewish settlers have come.
According to this equation the conflict between Jews and Arabs replicates the conflicts between colonial settlers and indigenous peoples.
Descendants of the European settlers in Algeria fled back to Europe.
In South Africa, Blacks achieved political dominance over the descendants of British and Afrikaner settlers, large numbers of whom remain as a tolerated minority.
His support for attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied territories, which he argues is legitimate under international law, has earned him immense popularity among Palestinians, but also a sentence of five life terms plus 40 years in an Israeli prison.
Israeli settlers and their supporters then gather even more energy to expand onto more Palestinian land, build more exclusively Jewish settlements, and destroy more Arab homes before the so-called “freeze” comes into effect.
When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was preparing for his historic visit to Jerusalem, a group of settlers created the settlement of Elon Moreh near Nablus, the most populated West Bank city.
In fact, since the 1993 Oslo Accords the number of Jewish settlers in the occupied territories has doubled.
Today, Har Homa, built on Jabal Abu Ghnaim with the aim of cutting off Bethlehem from Jerusalem, is home to 19,000 settlers.
Let us not avert our eyes lest our arms weaken….This is the fate of our generation, this is our life choice, to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down….We are a generation of settlers, and, without the steel helmet and the cannon’s fire, we will not be able to plant a tree and build a home.”
Nor did they come like the American or Australian settlers in order to build a new identity and assimilate the natives into it.
It is possible that in the Palestinian state there would be a small Jewish minority, consisting of West Bank settlers whose attachment to the Biblical homeland is so intense that they would be willing to live under Palestinian control – provided that the Palestinians would grant them Palestinian citizenship.
Meanwhile, approximately 3,000 Israeli extremists have bought houses in East Jerusalem, where they are protected by security forces and have their children transported to school in armored vehicles – part of services provided to the settlers that cost the Israeli government more than 100 million shekels ($25 million) in 2014.
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