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Article: 119 Bullets and Three.(Review)
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- Cineaste
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- June 22, 1998
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The fault lines created by religious fervor are the subject of 199 Bullets and Three and We Are God's Soldiers, the first dealing with Jewish militants and the second with their Islamic counterparts. The films demonstrate in no uncertain terms how the leaders both of the Islamic militants in Gaza and the militant Jewish settlers on the West Bank purport to derive their legitimacy and authority from divine law - in one case the Torah and, in the other, the Koran - while working as hard as possible to prevent the peace process from succeeding. More often than not, these movements trigger the most extreme confrontations.
119 Bullets and Three begins in Hebron with ...