Jaffa, The Orange’s Clockwork provides a novel perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by focusing on the symbolic significance of the Jaffa orange, one of the internationally most recognized export products of the area. Filmmaker Eyal Silvan not only traces the history of the fruit’s cultivation in Palestine starting as early as the middle of the nineteenth century, but he also examines the increasing political complexity of the role the orange played both economically and as a cultural sign of Israeli success and Palestinian loss. Interviews with those who have grown the orange for generations are juxtaposed with commentary by art critics, historians, film scholars, and the poet Haim Gourin to elucidate how both Orientalism and Zionism in various European narratives have helped destroy the initially rather benign cooperation between Palestinian and Jewish cultivators. The film is not only historically informative, but through its intelligent use of imagery it also offers memorable examples of contemporary interpretations of the famed orange.  AM