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Pierre Rehov reviews the new Warner Bros. backed film "Paradise Now" for Front Page:
As a filmmaker of the new documentary Suicide Killers, I will tell you that Hany Abu-Assad’s film Paradise Now is an artistically fashioned fiction. A dangerous fiction about dangerous people in a dangerous world. As fiction, his film stages good and bad characters. And since the film is about the final days of life for two suicide bombers, the killers automatically become the heroes.Hany Abu-Assad tries to portray his heroes as human beings. On this, I could not agree more. In his interview with Newsweek, he says the Palestinians “wanted to see these characters as superheroes, as almost inhuman in their great powers.” “Suicide Killers,” as I call them in my documentary, represent the saddest of human tragedies in their denial of life for death.
Depending on our point of view, we could justify anyone’s behaviour. The temptation would be great to make a film on Charles Manson or Jack the Ripper from an inside perspective that excuses their actions, just as we could rationalize Nazism by the poverty in which the Versailles Treaty emerged from Germany in the twenties. But in all cases—including suicide bombings—it’s important to identify the real causes and not make them up. Unfortunately, when we deal with the issues of Moslem expansion, the desire for Islamic world domination, the intolerance of Occidental culture, the Muslim extremists’ rejection of the modern world, their inferiority of women, and the glorification of jihad and shahada, the conclusion is always the same: to blame Israel or the United States.
Presented from the Palestinian point of view, moderate or otherwise, suicide bombings are the result of occupation, oppression, lack of freedom, and the desire for cultural pride. All of this reasoning is a lie. A myth. I spent hours speaking with would-be suicide bombers in Israeli jails and with their families in Gaza, Jordan, the West Bank and inside Nablus, where Paradise Now was filmed. And I am sorry to tell the Jury of the Amnesty International Award and the Best European Film Blue Angel Award and whoever is ecstatic about the courage and the sacrifice of these supposed heroes that they are just manipulated kids, victims of a system and a culture, or, as Dr. Boaz Ganor from the Hertzliya Center for Studies on Terrorism puts it, “stupid bombs and smart bombs at the same time.”...
Read it all.
Posted by Rebecca at November 16, 2005 8:39 AM
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See the chapter "The Kidnappers Are All Right" in Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler by the inimitable reviewer of movie-junk, Joe Queenan. He could handle, in a different way from Pierre Rehov, this disgusting movie and those who disgustingly praise it.
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at November 16, 2005 11:25 AM
This "Up with terrorists!" director was just interviewed on MSNBC -- a Muhammad Atta look-alike -- The chirpy interviewer asked all kinds of sweet little questions -- and allowed this terrorist to describe how he was under mortal threat from the Mossad and IDF -- to quote " An Israeli gun could have shot us any time..." Then to balance it out, he said he was also under threat from the local Jihadi leadership -- apparently they "kidnapped" his executive producer... Apparently they were "angry" with him for "humanizing" the "suicide bombers" -- According to this Muslim scum director, they were angry that this would rob the "suicide bomber" of his "super human" status... So this guy apparently is pandering to American audiences by suggesting that he is being fair and balanced by showing how human the bombers really are -- Of course his EP was realeased -- no doubt as soon as the local thug found out how terror friendly this film really is...
And of course the cheery chirpy chippie kept asking her little pink curlicue questions -- nary a chellenge in the lot -- and effusive thanks at the end too! Such nice manners!
Posted by: jsla at November 16, 2005 11:49 AM
That little chirpy would continue to beat the cutesy drum until the Halal knife bit into her throat.
Her last thought would be, "but I was on their side!"
Posted by: Dead Infidel Walking at November 16, 2005 7:22 PM
Warner Bros....
Jack Warner would not approve. Nor Sylvester. Nor Tweety. And certainly not Bugs Bunny. Wisecracking Bugs Bunny would not have lasted a minute in a "Palestinian" or other Muslim polity. There is no sense of humor in the Real Believer in Islam -- though there is, one finds, a highly developed one in some of those who have managed to jettison the belief-system completely. Free at last.
Posted by: Hugh at November 16, 2005 10:11 PM
Au contraire, there is quite a bit of humor in islam.
Take a peek at the videos that Zarqawi and his murderers issue to the public; executions and bombings with included laugh-tracks and goofy sound effects.
In fact, if ever you become dhimmitized, your executioners would joke with you all the way to the killing grounds.
Posted by: Dead Infidel Walking at November 16, 2005 10:18 PM
How is it that Moslems willingly blow themselves up? Such a final act must have something to offer the perpetrator for it to be a viable decision. The promise is that the bomber will be automatically accepted into heaven. If this is the case than why don't all Moslems, or anyone else for that matter, run out right now and kill a bunch of people by blowing themselves, literally to Kingdom Come.
The sad fact is that God, who has everything and needs nothing, dispenses his blessings according to His pleasure, and His mercy according to His grace. One cannot place another in debt without providing something the other does not have. If we give our very lives we don't give God anything he doesn't already have. I must assume the unwillingness of the Moslem leaders to lead the suicide bombers by example is that they do not have much faith in the concept that the rewards of this world are inferior to the next. What a horrible betrayal to catch a person in sin and use their guilt and shame as a lever to have them give their life for one's own temporal ambitions
at November 16, 2005 10:43 PM
How is it that Moslems willingly blow themselves up? Such a final act must have something to offer the perpetrator for it to be a viable decision. The promise is that the bomber will be automatically accepted into heaven. If this is the case than why don't all Moslems, or anyone else for that matter, run out right now and kill a bunch of people by blowing themselves, literally to Kingdom Come.
The sad fact is that God, who has everything and needs nothing, dispenses his blessings according to His pleasure, and His mercy according to His grace. One cannot place another in debt without providing something the other does not have. If we give our very lives we don't give God anything he doesn't already have. I must assume the unwillingness of the Moslem leaders to lead the suicide bombers by example is that they do not have much faith in the concept that the rewards of this world are inferior to the next. What a horrible betrayal to catch a person in sin and use their guilt and shame as a lever to have them give their life for one's own temporal ambitions
at November 16, 2005 10:44 PM
"That little chirpy would continue to beat the cutesy drum until the Halal knife bit into her throat."
So true -- but when you say: "Her last thought would be, "but I was on their side!""
I beg to differ -- I think she'd be saying something like "What did I do to deserve this? It must have been very bad to make them be so angry..."
Dhimmitudinous perfection...
Posted by: jsla at November 18, 2005 1:07 PM
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