at least that`s what radical lefties like msnbc/newsweek,the l.a. times,amnesty int`l,....
the academy awards(ugggghh)...the n.y.times....and of course npr....
would want us to understand....
""WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Lorraine Ali
Newsweek
Updated: 3:30 p.m. ET Nov. 11, 2005
Nov. 11, 2005 - """Hany Abu-Assad is nervous. In just two hours, his new film, “Paradise Now,” will premier in Tel Aviv. But there’s more to it than just opening night jitters for Abu-Assad. The director is Palestinian, the audience is Israeli, and his film is about the lives and moral struggles of two suicide bombers. “I’m trying to take deep breaths,” he laughs. “But it doesn’t seem to be helping.”
""It wouldn’t be the first time a film about terrorists, or """"freedom fighters""" (depending which side of the wall you’re on), has shown in Israel. But “Paradise Now,” a film distributed in the United States by Warner Independent Pictures, is one of the first feature films that tries to show the potential killers/martyrs as people. Childhood friends Said (Kais Nashif) and Khaled (Ali Suliman) drink tea at work, play and quarrel with siblings at home, develop crushes on women out of their league and discuss such mundane things as water filters with their mothers just hours before they’re chosen by a militant group to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The young men, who reside amongst the rubble, rocket fire and curfews of a Nablus refugee camp, face the most intense 48 hours of their already tough and heavy lives. Things get more complicated when Suha (Lubna Azabal) enters the picture. Her father died carrying out one of these attacks, and she’s determined to end the occupation through peaceful means. Together, the three spin the moral compass in all directions.
Just before the Tel Aviv opening on Thursday, Abu-Assad says he’s pleased with the reaction he’s received on the film. """
(i just love this part)...
"""It’s won an Amnesty International Award, a Blue Angel for best European film and is now Palestine’s official entry for the "Academy Awards" (this is only the second year Palestine has been allowed contribute to the Oscar’s foreign film competition). It opened in New York and Los Angeles two weeks ago to glowing reviews in The New York Times, and Abu-Assad was featured in interviews on NPR and in the Los Angeles Times. """
(i wish they`d done a movie on the 9/11 bombers....i know they`re just misunderstood...they mean well....if they were still around,i`m sure they`d be celebrities in hollywood)...
""But he knows his toughest audience is right there in his homeland. “There were some Palestinians who wanted to see these characters as superheroes, as almost inhuman in their great powers,” says Abu-Assad, 43, who was born in Nazareth but now lives in Holland. “There were also those—Europeans, Americans, Israelis, whomever—who wanted to see these characters as evil monsters. Again, as inhuman. But that’s not what this film is about. They are human, they have hearts, brains, lungs. They are strong and weak—and it’s in those weak moments that they are the most human.”""""
yes...the most human...when they are killing and maiming thousands of innocents....
ahhhh..kids....they "blow up" so fast....
yep.....msnbc/newsweek...and all the others.... they say....."" Suicide Bombers Are People, Too, ""....
as they promote an ugly, blatant, morally bankrupt piece of radical muslim propaganda.....
yep..., they’re people too..... psychotic people who blow themselves up to commit mass murder.....
even against there fellow muslims at benign functions like weddings...or while they worship at mosques....
and here`s another uplifting piece of news that i hadn`t been aware of....
muslims did not... i repeat... "DID NOT" commit the murders at the hotels in amman jordan...
ZARQA, Jordan, Nov. 11 - The Maktoum Mosque was crowded with worshipers for Friday Prayer as the imam sharply criticized the suicide attacks on three hotels in Amman, saying those who committed the crimes were not Muslims, no matter what they called themselves.
Afterward, on the street, people agreed that whoever committed such an act could not be a Muslim. But many meant this literally, that the attack must have been carried out by outsiders, namely Israeli agents.
“Who said it is them?” asked Ahmed al-Zawahrah, referring to claims that members of a radical Islamic group were behind the blasts. “It could be Israel.”
of course.....the israelis.....
we knew that...
the academy awards(ugggghh)...the n.y.times....and of course npr....
would want us to understand....
""WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Lorraine Ali
Newsweek
Updated: 3:30 p.m. ET Nov. 11, 2005
Nov. 11, 2005 - """Hany Abu-Assad is nervous. In just two hours, his new film, “Paradise Now,” will premier in Tel Aviv. But there’s more to it than just opening night jitters for Abu-Assad. The director is Palestinian, the audience is Israeli, and his film is about the lives and moral struggles of two suicide bombers. “I’m trying to take deep breaths,” he laughs. “But it doesn’t seem to be helping.”
""It wouldn’t be the first time a film about terrorists, or """"freedom fighters""" (depending which side of the wall you’re on), has shown in Israel. But “Paradise Now,” a film distributed in the United States by Warner Independent Pictures, is one of the first feature films that tries to show the potential killers/martyrs as people. Childhood friends Said (Kais Nashif) and Khaled (Ali Suliman) drink tea at work, play and quarrel with siblings at home, develop crushes on women out of their league and discuss such mundane things as water filters with their mothers just hours before they’re chosen by a militant group to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The young men, who reside amongst the rubble, rocket fire and curfews of a Nablus refugee camp, face the most intense 48 hours of their already tough and heavy lives. Things get more complicated when Suha (Lubna Azabal) enters the picture. Her father died carrying out one of these attacks, and she’s determined to end the occupation through peaceful means. Together, the three spin the moral compass in all directions.
Just before the Tel Aviv opening on Thursday, Abu-Assad says he’s pleased with the reaction he’s received on the film. """
(i just love this part)...
"""It’s won an Amnesty International Award, a Blue Angel for best European film and is now Palestine’s official entry for the "Academy Awards" (this is only the second year Palestine has been allowed contribute to the Oscar’s foreign film competition). It opened in New York and Los Angeles two weeks ago to glowing reviews in The New York Times, and Abu-Assad was featured in interviews on NPR and in the Los Angeles Times. """
(i wish they`d done a movie on the 9/11 bombers....i know they`re just misunderstood...they mean well....if they were still around,i`m sure they`d be celebrities in hollywood)...
""But he knows his toughest audience is right there in his homeland. “There were some Palestinians who wanted to see these characters as superheroes, as almost inhuman in their great powers,” says Abu-Assad, 43, who was born in Nazareth but now lives in Holland. “There were also those—Europeans, Americans, Israelis, whomever—who wanted to see these characters as evil monsters. Again, as inhuman. But that’s not what this film is about. They are human, they have hearts, brains, lungs. They are strong and weak—and it’s in those weak moments that they are the most human.”""""
yes...the most human...when they are killing and maiming thousands of innocents....
ahhhh..kids....they "blow up" so fast....
yep.....msnbc/newsweek...and all the others.... they say....."" Suicide Bombers Are People, Too, ""....
as they promote an ugly, blatant, morally bankrupt piece of radical muslim propaganda.....
yep..., they’re people too..... psychotic people who blow themselves up to commit mass murder.....
even against there fellow muslims at benign functions like weddings...or while they worship at mosques....
and here`s another uplifting piece of news that i hadn`t been aware of....
muslims did not... i repeat... "DID NOT" commit the murders at the hotels in amman jordan...
ZARQA, Jordan, Nov. 11 - The Maktoum Mosque was crowded with worshipers for Friday Prayer as the imam sharply criticized the suicide attacks on three hotels in Amman, saying those who committed the crimes were not Muslims, no matter what they called themselves.
Afterward, on the street, people agreed that whoever committed such an act could not be a Muslim. But many meant this literally, that the attack must have been carried out by outsiders, namely Israeli agents.
“Who said it is them?” asked Ahmed al-Zawahrah, referring to claims that members of a radical Islamic group were behind the blasts. “It could be Israel.”
of course.....the israelis.....
we knew that...
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