Pierre Rehov

Pierre Rehov Pierre Rehov is the pseudonym of a French Jewish film maker and novelist, most known for his movies which are almost exclusively based on the Arab-Israeli conflict . Rehov was born to a Jewish family from Alger , Algeria , then a French colony. According to his website, there he experienced terrorism at a young age. In 1961, Rehov with his mother and younger brother left Algeria to join his father, already in France. So his family became a part of as many as 250,000 other Jews and about one million French fleeing Algeria, which was to become independent the next year. He made later a film on the Jewish refugees (Silent Exodus) describing the fate of the million Jews expelled from Arab countries after 1948. He chose not to describe his own community from Algeria, since the Algerian war was a colonial problem involving France more than the Jewish community. Although he recalls that Jews in Algeria, had been suffering of Muslim antisemitism for decades, even when Algeria was part of France. Rehov says he was not a pro-Israeli activist until 2000, when he saw the death of Muhammad al-Durrah on television, and doubted its authenticity. Since then, he has been working mostly in the Palestinian territories , and other Arab countries, including in Iraq, where he was embedded in the US army as a free lance reporter. His film "The road to Jenin" lists number of casualties acknowledged by both Palestinians and Israelis. His work on the Muhammad al-Durrah event showed what was later proven: that it was actually impossible for Israeli soldiers to have killed this child, whose death was only witnessed by one Palestinian, namely the reporter who accused Israel of this death. He, among others, requested an investigation into the murder of al-Durrah, in which he claimed that it was Palestinian gunfire that killed the child. This investigation was also featured in the film Decryptage . Rehov states that every reporter must be (or appear to be) pro-Palestinian to work in the Palestinian territories safely and this, among other things, creates systematic anti-Israeli bias, especially on French media outlets. He advocates a two-state solution , for Palestinians and Israelis to live side by side, but does not believe that peace will be possible for many generations. Since July 2005, Rehov has appeared on many TV networks including CNN, FOX and MNSBC. [1] In January 2008, Rehov was embedded in the 4/1 US cavalry in Baghdad, where he filmed hours of dailies, showing the situation in Iraq from the field. Those images will be part of his next documentary " The path to darkness ". In 2008 Rehov moved to the United States and now lives in the region of New York. Filmmaker uncovers shocking Palestinian 'myths': 'No journalist can report honestly without risking his life' July 14, 2004

Pierre Rehov Pierre Rehov is the pseudonym of a French – Israeli documentary filmmaker , director and novelist, most known for his movies about the Arab–Israeli conflict and Israeli–Palestinian conflict , its treatment in the media, and about terrorism .

Pierre Rehov is the pseudonym of a French – Israeli documentary filmmaker , director and novelist, most known for his movies about the Arab–Israeli conflict and Israeli–Palestinian conflict , its treatment in the media, and about terrorism . Rehov is also a fiction writer, whose novels have enjoyed some success in France, and several have been translated into English and German.

French–Israeli documentary filmmaker, director, and novelist Pierre Rehov ( Hebrew : פייר רחוב ; born 1952) is the pseudonym of a French – Israeli documentary filmmaker , director, and novelist, most known for his movies about the Arab–Israeli conflict and Israeli–Palestinian conflict , its treatment in the media, and about terrorism . Rehov is also a fiction writer, whose novels have enjoyed some success in France, and several have been translated into English and German.