From the documentary Notes to Eternity.
This locally made crowd-funded documentary, completed over a period of 10 years, bills itself as "a meditation on the Israel-Palestine conflict", a choice of words that is as perhaps as reflective of its pace as its style.
It's packed with detail and takes a commendably long view of the issues,
though it makes no pretence that it is offering a balanced perspective.
Unabashedly conceived as a corrective to the dominant Israeli, not to say Zionist, narrative, it offers as our guides four main "characters", three of whom are Jews and trenchant critics of Israel: Noam Chomsky, who first started speaking out about this subject in 1962; the often wild-eyed Norman Finkelstein, who calls himself "the only Jew to be banned from Israel"; Harvard political economist Sara Roy.
The fourth is the veteran Beirut-based journo Robert Fisk, and Finkelstein's interpreter, Musa Abu Hashhash, a Palestinian worker for an Israeli human rights group, makes illuminating appearances.
The clarity and comprehensiveness of the vision are impressive, but Cordery has gathered a massive amount of material, and the film is handicapped by her unwillingness to leave stuff out.
