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Film recounts
bittersweet tale
of co-existence.
Tarik Kopty and Hiam Abbass in
Lemon Tree
Tom Tugend
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
T
he Israeli film Lemon Tree is a
striking story about relations
between individual Israelis
and Palestinians and illustrates one of
the anomalies of our perception of the
Middle East conflict.
If, as a foreigner, you want to under-
stand the attitudes of an ordinary
Palestinian or absorb some levelheaded
dissent from Israeli government policy,
your best bet is to read Israeli newspa-
pers or watch an Israeli movie.
That is a tribute to Israel and to its
journalists and filmmakers. Can you
imagine Hollywood creating, or mighty
America accepting, a film that portrays
the Viet Cong as sympathetic human
beings during the Vietnam War or
Taliban fighters with understandable
resentments in Afghanistan today?
Director/co-writer Eran Riklis'
Lemon Tree was inspired by an actual
incident some eight years ago.
At the opening of the film, Salma
Zidane, a 45-year-old widow from a
small West Bank village abutting Israel's
Green Line, is bottling some spicy lem-
onade in her kitchen.
The ingredients come from a small
lemon grove, which she inherited from
her father and which she tends lovingly
with the help of an elderly handyman.
The rural rhythm is disturbed when
the newly named Israeli defense min-
ister, Israel Navon, decides to build a
large, handsome house directly facing
the lemon grove.
His security detail warns that the
abundant lemon trees would provide
perfect cover for terrorists aiming to
assassinate Navon and orders that all
the trees be uprooted.
Although both Arabs and Israelis
counsel the widow that it's hopeless to
fight the edict, she appeals first to the
Palestinian Authority, which doesn't
want to be bothered, and then to an
Israeli military court, which quickly
rules against her.
Despite the warnings of everyone,
including her young Arab lawyer, Salma
insists on taking her case to the Israeli
High Court (Supreme Court).
The case now becomes a national
and international media story, to the
exasperation of Navon, who chides
reporters at a press conference for
bugging him about lemons when
he has to worry about the country's
survival.
In parallel, the film gently develops
the story of the loneliness of two mid-
dle-aged women and the silent bond of
sympathy that develops between them.
One is Salma, who attracts and is
attracted to her much younger Arab
lawyer, to the dismay of her relatives.
The other is Mira, Navon's wife, who
grows increasingly estranged from
her husband, both for his roving eye
and his callousness toward the lemon-
grove widow.
The hearing before a Supreme Court
panel is an emotional highlight and
without giving away the verdict, each
side wins a bit and loses a bit.
Despite the underlying serious-
ness of the film, Riklis lightens it with
flashes of humor. Best is an Israeli,
named Private Quickie (for his slow-
ness), who whiles away long hours
in a guard tower studying audio self-
improvement courses.
Outstanding in a fine cast is Hiam
Abbass (The Visitor), a native of
Nazareth, who portrays the widow
with great dignity and an undertone
of sadness. She was featured earlier in
Riklis' The Syrian Bride.
When asked about the apparent gap
between Israeli filmmakers, who tend
to sympathize with the Palestinian
viewpoint, and the Israeli electorate,
which now seems to favor a more
hard-line policy with the ascent of
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
Riklis said:
"I don't think Israelis are becoming
more prejudiced." Rather, "people are
becoming tired; they are fed up with
what is happening. They want to live
normal lives." LI
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Lemon Tree is scheduled to open Friday, May 15, at the Maple Art
Theatre in Bloomfield Township. (248) 263-2111.