In ‘ Offering a stark contrast to the popular Israeli national myth of “a land without a people for a people without a land,” this multi-layered documentary will inspire much debate and deserves wide distribution.” To begin with, the Jewish people’s connection to Israel dates back about 3,000 years. For those who do not accept the Biblical narrative, archaeological findings have proven this. By using the words “national myth,” Simon seemingly implies that the drive for Jewish self-determination was illegitimate, little more than a fable detached from the historical record. Second, Simon suggests that Jews who moved to what was then British Mandatory Palestine — this, prior to Israel’s formal establishment in 1948 — thought they were entering a “land without a people.” In reality, there were in 1947 over one million non-Jewish people in the area – who never formally organized themselves into a functional national entity. Indeed, the Palestinian independence movement took off with the establishment in 1964 of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a terrorist group committed to Israel’s destruction.