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'Forgiveness' wins audience favorite at Woodstock
Merav Yudilovitch
Published: 18.10.06, 23:14
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1. Udi Aloni Rides the Gravy Train for Anti-Israel Israelis
Akiva ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (10.19.06)
Mr. Aloni, congratulations for becoming the toast of the town in many places, and being warmly patted on the back by multitudes of people with beaming smiles who applaud the "honesty" in your art. But look at your reflection in the eyes of your admirers, and then look into your own heart, and you'll see not an artist but a propagandist pandering to people who do not value either honesty or art in the least. Your opportunism must recognize that your new friends and admirers wouldn't have mourned for even a moment the fatwa that ended your life (like Theo Van Gogh's was ended) if you had made your film about an Arab-American who joins an Arab army to fight Israel, during his service kills an Israeli child, feels so guilty that he is institutionalized in a psychiatric facility on the ruins of a former Jewish village in an Arab country, where the ghosts of the village try to communicate with him through an old Muslim, "forcing him to confront the past".)
2. Who is this putz, the spawn of Shulamit?
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (10.19.06)
3. Response to Akiva and Kyle
Miriam ,   Jerusalem   (11.01.06)
I agree with you both, but here is my thought. Around 99.9% of the people in Israel's film industry are on the far left, so it's a waste of energy to get angry, because those people are largely beyond hope and beyond redemption. And of course their colleagues abroad are also falling off the left edge of the political spectrum, so the Israelis get to lap up the praise of their foreign colleagues for their virtuous, "courageous" far left positions. (As if it takes courage to agree with every single person who travels in your social circles.)
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