From Die Jüdische, with thanks to Teri:
Hany Abu - Assad`s movie „Paradise Now” is portraying two Palestinian suicide bombers.At the end the screen goes blank. You do not see rubble nor dead people. The last thing you see is a pair of determined staring eyes. The camera moves closer to the face of the young Palestinian and separates him from the world surrounding him: his victims.
The eyes in the face belong to a man called Said. For 90 minutes the audience accompanied him through the movie “Paradise Now”. Said is a suicide bomber and his victims are Israeli Jews.
“Paradise Now” is not one of those movies, shot by well educated moviemakers, producers and technicians in the Palestinian territories, that celebrates “martyrs”: those men and women who are sacrificing themselves in order to kill as many Jews as they can.
“Paradise Now “ is in competition at the 55th International Film festival Berlinale which opened last Thursday in Berlin. The director Hany Abu-Assad is asked in the press conference for “Paradise Now”: “why are there almost only Israeli soldiers sitting in the bus, which Said is going to blow up? Assad answers evasively; he wanted to let the character decide for himself.
Kais Nashef, who plays Said in the movie, continues to answer: “ the soldiers in the bus made the decision, to blow himself up, easier [if]Israelis stay invisible throughout the movie; you can only see them from afar, only as figures and not as human beings. You are not allowed to get to know any of the other characters, neither the people at the bus station nor the little girl standing by the bus driver, otherwise the audience could emphasize with them."
Berlin is not Germany. It has as much to do with most of Germany as New York City or Boston or San Francisco have with the majority of America, and for much the same reasons. And the Berlinale is not Berlin. It is a struggling film festival, with the ambition but not the means to rival Cannes and the Venice Biennale. A good loud row is a well-known way to gain attention. This is not dhimmitude, merely dishonesty - plus some of the usual left-wing nonsense one might be expected to find among the parasitically inclined intelligentsia in that cold and crowded city.
"You are not allowed to get to know any of the other characters, neither the people at the bus station nor the little girl standing by the bus driver, otherwise the audience could emphasize with them."
(Thew moron means "empathize" I assume)
This is another attempt to dehumanize Jews/Israelis. It is also a disingenuous attempt to have it appear that the real target of noble suicide bombers are Israeli soldiers -- a feeble attempt at revisionist history in quick time.
The truth is Jewish/Israeli children have been specific targets; The infant Shalhevet Pass
(http://www.hebron.org.il/pics/shalhevet.htm)
shot in the head by a Palestinian sniper while cradled in her father's arms; Five year old Danielle Sheffi (http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000033.html)shot while hiding under her mother's bed; S' barro's Pizza full of children eating pizza, children slaughtered eating ice cream in Petah Tikvah...
The manufactured and nurtured Palestinian image of the wild, dark eyed, kaffiyah wearing martyr is just so much theatrics. It's designed to instill fear in us. It instills rage in me. I want to tear off the rag they hide behind and shove a mossburg in their lying, murdering mugs.
May they all reach paradise and soon ...
"Thew" lol, who's a moron?
Sheik Yer'mami rides again: Berlin, watch out:
http://www.terrorists-suck.org/fight/winds_of_jihad.html
I just read with disgust that this vile piece of propaganda, denied any of the major awards in spite of a loud pre-festival hype campaign, has received something called the "Amnesty International Prize". This in spite of the fact that one of the other movies in competition had to do with a real assault on human rights, the 1994 Rwandan genocide. If anyone wanted evidence that AI has sold out, there could be no better. I never liked the bastards anyway, and I had my reasons - to do with the sort of people whom I saw joining the organization. But I really cannot find words strong enough to condemn this.