A Melbourne-based trauma psychologist says her work is more important than ever, amplifying the lived experience of those who choose respect over revenge.
Already a subscriber?Esther Takac is clearly nervous about the broadcast of her documentary on Sunday. She never dreamed the subject of her film would be contentious when she began work on it in 2017. Her goal was to show the world how some Palestinians and Israelis were coming together, united in grief, to try and find a path through the conflict between their nations.
It was at a hospital, working with Palestinian and Israeli children lying side by side, that her documentary,“You can have a room with a secular Israeli kid and mum sharing a room with an ultra-orthodox Jewish kid and mum – they don’t necessarily have much common ground in many ways – and with a Muslim Palestinian kid and mum in the same room. But when one kid is vomiting, the other mum goes out to get the bucket. Everybody just works together in that situation,” Takac says.
Takac says she could almost see her husband roll his eyes on the other end of the phone line as she told him about the film she decided needed to be made in the moments after the ceremony. “There is so much trauma in Israel, in the Palestinian territories and in Gaza, and it’s scary to think how that’s going to affect people going forward,” she says.
All have since joined a grassroots movement Israeli Palestinian Bereaved Families, which now finds itself under heavy attack from critics who say the group is trying to normalise the other side. Elhanan describes the natural response when someone hits you in the face being to hit them back. But he says it was a gradual process, coming to the other side to then understand what he says is the most important question of them all: “What can you do personally to prevent this unbearable pain for other people?”
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