These people should be ashamed. Traitors every one of them.

Of course the irony is that these film makers live in a democracy (Israel) and won't be killed or imprisoned by their own government for speaking their beliefs. That and the fact that their silence over terrorist attacks on their own bretheren in Israel implies their support for such war crimes. But, as Ehud Olmert once said, in Israel "they have every right to be wrong".

I just came from the pro-Israel rally in Los Angeles where there were thousands of attendees and prominent speakers, and then to read this crap from these heads up their a-- artists. I"ll be sure to dismiss their movies the same way they're dismissing precious Jewish children in bomb shelters and kidnapped Jewish soldiers. I'll be donating the price of admission to Hatzolah, Friends of the IDF and Magen Dovid.

I totally subscribe to your letter guys.. Art and Music have their own language and I only wish it was louder and more powerful in order to change things and the current situation between our countries. peaceful days to come..!

It is quite credible that this group of so called intellectuals who are supposed to be film makers can be so blind. This just shows how pernicious the Trotskyite and Stalinist mind set is on the far Left. Don't confuse them with the facts. They must follow the party line and not think for themselves. In the immortal words of W.S. Gilbert written over 100 years ago "Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own" I call on all my fellow citizens and film lovers to make sure that their films are boycotted so that they are forced by economics to go out and find a real job of work; preferably digging the graves of those killed by Hizbollah missiles and caring in hospitals for those injured.

Amazing, wasn't it? Did you happen to catch the Mexican motorcycle gang with all those Israeli flags? It was awesome. So proud.

Remove their subsidies and give the money to our top class orchestras who are really great ambassadors for this country without compromising their artistic integrity one wit

so now we can boycott their movies. Oh, they are bad movies? Oh, you mean it's just a publicity stunt. Ooooo, I get it. Boring.

Send them to live with arabs.Or better yet try them for treason.There is only one penalty for these latter-day kapos. Boycott all Israeli movies till the govt. stops subsidizing these enemies of ours'.

Most filmmakers have a sensitivity and appreciation of perspectives beyond their own, something severely lacking in the idiotic responses posted here. Switch on a non-local and non-US channel and watch the non-discriminate force being used on the Lebanese civilan population. 400 killed and a 2 red cross ambulances struck just yestreday (too much of a temptation that cross, wasn't it?). Grow a heart and a soul and learn about proportion. Sinking a nation and massacaring families because of the capture of two soldiers is not your God-given right.

Don't like Israel? Go make a movie in Iraq. No that won't work. How about Iran. Yes, Iran would welcome you peacefully. Or Saudi Arabia. Give me a break! It seems many Israeli movies have a slight anti-Israel message. Anyone else notice that?

YNET editors: your english translation of "the full story" is quite partial and tendential -- you forgot to translate the part about the Kadima MK who wants to blacklist us and ban us from getting public funding for our films in the future... under the heading "internal criticism" you appear to be using our protest as a progressive israeli "figleaf," just as some of the Arab critics of our letter have posited... why keep the fascist underpinnings of israeli society from the purview of non-hebew readers?

I express my unequivocal and vehement solididarity with my israelian and palestianian and arab colleagues, against the brutal and cruel destruction of lebanese and palestinian and israelian people by military forces. Make movies is an act of peace, love and freedom.

This Arab-American from Sidon, Lebanon, married to a Jew, thanks the brave Israeli filmmakers. Too bad so many of your commenters are such ugly people. These filmmakers are the best of Israel and I am glad they spoke up. May they be protected from harm.

sounds like hollywood ! left ,left, left. allways on the side of the enemy. snivel, snivel, whine, whine.

Exactly what do you imagine would happen if the IDF decided to stay at home ans watch movies instead of putting their lives on the line for the State of Israel ? I can tell you that before the comercial break there would be hordes of rampaging war loving arabs tearing through the country murdering and slaughtering every Jewe they could get their hands on. You included. You think you can change their mentality with films! You are not artless but you are more than naive. Some of you are supporting the enemies of the State of Israel. This is a war. Not a game. Film making is art and games with popular imagintion. So long as you refuse to support the IDF in its war against terror and the infrastructure of terror the war will continue. How many people in the Middle-East will be watching movies tonight ..... because they will be dead ....... of any nationality. Every one will be one too many in GOD's view. But GOD knows this world will have a better chance of peace with some of them dead. The IDF is justified to use violence against the enemies of the State of Israel and the casualties of war deserve our grief and tears. But the IDF deserves more fromyou than your pathetic pandering to the film makers of the Arab world. Many of them would not offer you the same blessing. So get your focus straight and rather than including everyone in your naive views do more to single out and target the art and craft of your mortal enemies. Whose vision will survive in this world? Yours!? Not unless you fight for your survival and expose those film makers and broadcasting companies who morally and materially support a war against Israel.

>> hordes of rampaging war loving arabs tearing through the country murdering and slaughtering every Jewe they could get their hands on << I see, so the Army's position is that if people don't want "defense" they must be forced to accept it at gunpoint. And yet nobody is talking about disbanding the Army from defending Israel (or America). It's the "foreign adventures" in mass murder that cause problems. If this is not anti-thetical to Israeli culture, which is aimed at eradicating Arabs like cockroaches, then it's certainly anti-thetical to (original) American culture of self-sufficiency and maximum liberty and small govt. It is plainly visible, that any time the govt declares a "war" on anything, that anything increases -- drugs, poverty, illiteracy, terrorism. Now they make up policy and declare war without even consulting the public, except for lip service and propaganda. Quo Bono? The vast majority of Arabs want nothing more than an end to violence, an end to having their homes blown up and their families killed, starved, robbed. The remaining minority could soon be reined in by their own populations, who are sick and tired of constant instigations. Arabs and Jews have gotten along just fine for centuries, for the most part, of course not without periodic squabbles. Arabs and Jews got along fine in Palestine, before the new culture of violent, fascist Zionism invaded the Jewish community. (Remind me, who was it who called Jabotinsky Vladimir Hitler? And Jabotinsky was more restrained than Begin, who wanted MORE anti-Semitism from the Polish govt to pressure Jews to flee.) One GREAT thing about the Israeli position. People who are hip to American investment in weapons and high-tech defense -- both for American forces, for IsraelI force, and even for arming violent enemies who want to purchase this stuff (profits, plus escalates the problems in a cycle) -- are licking their chops at the windfall they expect to reap from well over $500 billion in projected spending of tax revenues, not counting Iraq. Ha-ha. Suckers!!!! It's so easy to keep people obedient with plausible lies of State.