Rehov, Pierre

Rehov was born into a Jewish family in Algeria , (the city of Algeria ), which was then a French colony . His ancestors lived in Algeria for almost 500 years. On his website, he writes ^[1] that, as a child, he experienced what is now called terrorism . At a school in Algeria, classmates called Rehov a "dirty Jew" and extolled Adolf Hitler . As a child, Rehov witnessed two terrorist attacks carried out by Muslim extremists against French rule. He saw with his own eyes how, after the first terrorist attack, people came out and crawled out of the cafe, covered in blood, without arms and without legs. Another attack was committed in his school - then killed his 11 classmates ^{[2] [3]} .

In 1961 , a year before the declaration of independence of Algeria , 9-year-old Pierre, along with his mother and younger brother, left for France , where their father was waiting for them ^[3] . So his family became part of 250 thousand Jews and about a million French who fled from Algeria. He later made a film about Jewish refugees (Silent Exodus), describing the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews who suffered from Muslim anti-Semitism for centuries, including when Algeria was part of France and expelled from Arab countries after 1948 .

Rekhov said that he was not a pro- Israeli activist until 2000 , when he saw the coverage of Muhammad al-Durr’s death on television and doubted the authenticity of this version. Since then, he has worked mainly in the Palestinian territories and other Arab countries, including Iraq , where he was part of the US Army as a free reporter.

In particular, he insisted on investigating the murder of al-Durr, claiming the child died as a result of shelling by the Arabs. This version is presented in the movie "Decryptage" ^[4] .

Rekhov claims that in order to be safe while working in the Palestinian Authority , each correspondent must occupy (or pretend to be) a pro-Arab position ^{[2] [3] [5]} . By this, he explains the systematic anti-Israeli bias of the media , especially the French .

He advocates the creation of two states for two peoples: the Jews and Arabs of Palestine , but does not believe that peace will be possible over the next generations.

Since July 2005, Rehov appeared on many television channels, including CNN , FOX and MNSBC . In January 2008 , Rehov kept a daily chronicle of events directly from Baghdad . Part of it will be included in his next documentary, The Path to Darkness.

Although Rekhov’s documentaries are convincing and powerful, French television refuses to accept them for broadcast ^[2] .

However, Rehov found his own way of distributing his films: using the law on freedom of expression in France, he created a political magazine ^[6] and supplies each copy with a video cassette with his films. The first two issues sold 50,000 copies.

In 2008, Pierre Rehov moved to the United States and now lives in the New York area .

Rehov made 8 films telling about the Arab-Israeli conflict and its media coverage : ^[7]

• “ The Road to Jenin ” is one of Rehov’s most famous films, an answer to the controversial documentary “ Jenin, Jenin ”, filmed by the famous Israeli Arab Mohammed Bakri about the events in Jenin in 2002 ^[8] and sponsored by the Palestinian Authority (PNA) ^[9] .
• The Trojan Horse is a film that claims that the true intent of Yasser Arafat was not the coexistence of two states, but the creation of a Palestinian state throughout Israel.
• " Holy Land - Christians in Peril " ( Holy Land - Christians in Peril ) - - a film describing the flight of Christians from territories controlled by the PNA.
• Silent Exodus is a film that talks about the exodus of Jews from Arab countries .
• “ Hostages of Hatred ” - about how the “right to return”, supported by the UN , left Palestinian Arabs in refugee camps for half a century, created the current unresolvable situation in the Middle East .
• “ From The River to the Sea ” - was selected as the best film at the “Freedom Film Festival” in 2006 .
• The War of Images
• “ Suicide Killers ” (2006) is a documentary that studies the psychopathology of suicide bombers ^[10] . It was shown in movie theaters in New York and Los Angeles and is distributed on DVD from WEA . He was nominated for an Oscar in Hollywood .
• “ Sunday comes after Saturday ” ( First comes Saturday, then comes Sunday ) (2007 - a documentary about the plight and suffering of Christians living in the Islamic Middle East.
• “ The Path to darkness ” ( The Path to darkness ) (2009) - in production.

• Cellules Blanches is a thriller about terrorism. Published by the largest French publisher Albin Michel. It will soon be translated into English under the name "White Cells".

• Media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict )
• Muhammad al-Durrah )
• Pallywood

• Official site of Pierre Rehov (eng.)
• Suicide Killers Movie Site
• Suicide Killers: Pierre Rehov (youtube)
• The Road to Jenin (video.google )
• Pierre Rehov - Google Video (link not available )
• Pierre Rehov - youtube search
• Winds of War: An Insight Into Terrorists, December 19th, 2006