(Commentary) Evelyn Gordon - Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat's anti-Israel film "Five Broken Cameras" garnered a glowing write-up in the New York Times. But at the end of the Times piece is another angle to his story: "In late 2008, he accidentally drove a truck into the separation barrier and was badly injured. A Palestinian ambulance arrived at the same time as Israeli soldiers, who saw what bad shape he was in and took him to an Israeli hospital. 'If I had been taken to a Palestinian hospital,' Burnat said, 'I probably wouldn't have survived.' He was unconscious for 20 days. Three months later he was back filming." In short, Burnat is alive today to win prizes for a film about evil Israeli soldiers because those same soldiers saved his life four years earlier.
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