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Spy thriller from Bat Yam takes Egypt by storm
Roee Nahmias
Published: 17.12.09, 16:28
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1. So what else is new?
(12.17.09)
The WHOLE WORLD is turning against Israel. Shades of Pre-Holocaust days. BEWARE O ISRAEL!!!
2. denies of reality
Smith   (12.17.09)
The reality is not important. The myth is important. The reality is that arabs was allies with nazi (Mufti).
3. The Arabs are the racists.
David Stoler   (12.17.09)
The Arab world is racist, sexist, poverty stricken, diseased, inbred, filled with religious hatred, ignorant, and celebrates mass murder of woman and children. The Arabs have killed their own with guns, hangings, be-headings, chemical and biological weapons, electrified them, and tortured fellow Arabs to death. Arabs even kill there own woman if there raped or not virgins before they get married. ( Honor Killings ) Do you people ever take responsiblity. I guess its far easier for the Arabs to blame everyone else for there failures. The real victims are the Kurds, Coptics, Black Christians of Sudan, Berbers and Jews who lived under these Arab fascist murderers. To this day, no one single Egyptian Muslim who murdered a Coptic has spent 1 day in jail.
4. We already know who's gonna win in the next Cannes festival
tFighterPilot   (12.17.09)
5. isnt it?!!!!!!!!!!
Yafa ,   Palestine   (12.17.09)
it is really big problem if you dont know what it isyour truth?
6. Israeli film vs Egyptian film
David Israel ,   New York USA   (12.17.09)
A few years ago there was an Israeli film called 'The Band's Visit' (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret) It was promoting peace and understanding between the two nations . The Egyptian movie is claerly promoting animosity. It is very unfortunate to see that Arabs do not want peace with Israel.
7. Statement
Jared ,   Toronto, Canada   (12.17.09)
At least Israel has peace with Egypt, I mean wow. Imagine if a similar movie was made about Arabs in Israel the world would be up in arms. I guess 3rd world (speaking of Israel's peace partner - Egypt) racism is acceptable.
8. culture of hate
mahmoud ,   usa   (12.17.09)
selwa says:she is unable{to live with the racist people} she means the israelis.then selwa says{religion forbids her to live with a jew}selwas religion is islam,i wonder who practices the ultimate racism here?almost every day the muslims keep reminding the world that islam is religion of peace?!!.surat al-tawba in al-quraan #29-verse5&29=says kill the jews and christians including the atheists like myself. i guess the egyptian agent entered israel through gaza by using hamas rat tunnels.ha ha cousins!!!!!
9. Not Without My Daughter?
Roy ,   Boston   (12.17.09)
I think I've seen this movie already, and in a much more believable context..
10. the next movie is"the shaid"
shalom praud zionist   (12.17.09)
good people good religion all good
11. Isnt peace wonderful?
(12.17.09)
12. Friends
Ricardo Macher ,   KarneiShomron Israel   (12.17.09)
Hey, weren't this people Shimon Peres' friends?
13. They have their truth, we have ours
(12.17.09)
The differences can be resolved only by violence, since the Arab world is so scared of Israeli culture that they imprison their own journalists for interviewing Israelis. Or should we bomb our allies with leaflets telling we don't cook Palestinian children for passover?
14. #4, you can't be serious.
David   (12.17.09)
15. In reality, he wouldn't have to kidnap his family....
David ,   Hartford USA   (12.17.09)
they would JUMP at the chance to live in Israel. Arabs in Tel Aviv are treated better than Arabs in the presidential palace in Cairo (and a hundred times better than the average citizen on the street.) The schools are better in Israel, the healthcare is better in Israel, the employment is better in Israel. In every measure, the quality of life is better in Israel. Oh yeah, the woman is going to wake-up in a 'nightmare.' The sort of nightmare that a million Egyptians would beg to have if they could. Why do you think Egyptian foerign service employees fight to get the Israeli postings? BECAUSE THEY LOVE LIVING AND WORKING IN A FREE AND MODERN COUNTRY. Going back home means going back to a Third World existance.
16. Make sure every member of the US Foreign Aid committee
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (12.17.09)
gets a DVD copy of the film along with a letter.
17. to yafa #5
rachael ,   binyamin, israel   (12.17.09)
yeah it is a big problem if you don't know the truth, then you end up being brainwashed by trashy propaganda like this one...
18. Egypt still backwards, vapid, stench-filled dung hill
Nasser   (12.17.09)
Maybe Israel has it all wrong. The next (what is this, 11,599th?) time that the Muslim Brotherhood tries to assassinate Mubarak & Co... let 'em. What's the difference? Let 'em enjoy Islamic slavery on the National Level! Ignoramuses......
19. they learned propaganda from their friends the nazis
rachel ,   usa   (12.17.09)
20. they project themselves
rachel ,   usa   (12.17.09)
21. MR.Nasser #18
mahmoud ,   usa   (12.17.09)
the egyptian muslim brootherhood brain function like the stone age caveman. mubarak&co spends on their security more than they do on health&education..poor egyptians are selling their body parts so they can survive another miserable day. the great egyptian writer and thinker SAYED AL-QIMANY wrote an article today posted at read&cry.
22. this is news?!
israelit ,   tel aviv   (12.17.09)
i spent a summer in egypt almost three years ago and saw another movie with an anti-israeli storyline. it's nothing new
23. HASBARA BUBBLE?
CHOSEN WORLD ,   TORONTO   (12.17.09)
Ironic review - does the writer live in IL? "exposed to their harsh reality of their daily lives: ..., Israeli bad guys shoving elderly Palestinian women, Israelis destroying Palestinian homes." Perhaps she lives in a Zionist hasbara bubble.
24. "corrupt and violent, and hateful towards foreigners"
Chanalau, Tova ,   London, UK   (12.17.09)
What exactly is wrong with that description?
25. to israelit#22
mahmoud ,   usa   (12.17.09)
read this,selwa stated her religion forbids her to live with a jew. this is an islamic code words.to justify hamas thugs to commit their ugly suicide-homicide bombing among the people of israel. the storyline is not only anti israel,its also anti sematic&judaism.you lived one summer in egypt,i lived 50 summers among the arabs and muslims,don,t be a naive person.
26. Is this a remake of the Turkish movie that was out last mont
Vicki ,   Los Angeles, CA   (12.17.09)
27. questrion to mahmoud (21)
Al-Qimni's fan ,   Israel Petah-tikva   (12.17.09)
Mahmoud, it's nice to see here people like for you represent the normal and sane people, i admire al-Qimni's writings (i master Arabic) but it's a pity that Mr, Al-qimni doesn't know English so that his voice be heard. sagrinb@gmail.com
28. BACKWARDED COUNTRY
Marco ,   Brazil   (12.17.09)
Whoever has visited Tel Aviv and Cairo will know the difference between modernity, openess, joy and good-living. Just compare the Visit´s Band and this thrash film and you understand that Israel is thousands of years ahead.
29. Egypt's angry films vs. Israel's remorseful films
Abed   (12.17.09)
Egyptians make films that shows how much they hate you but that's all they do. Israelis make remorseful films while they kill and starve and expel Palestinians. So who is the pathological liar?\
30. Arabs projecting, as usual
AK ,   NY   (12.17.09)
From the plentiful and pityful stories of Western, and even Jewish women married to Muslims and then having their children taken away in a Muslim country or remaining unwilling captives themselves, Muslims project their conduct to the Jews. Egypt, which forces a Christian son of a Christians mother and an absentee father, who later converts to Islam, to declare Islam as his religion projects to Israel religious intollerance. Egypt, a totalitarian state where the opposition ends up in prison, often tortured and raped (yes even men) and who has given shelter to the real Nazis war criminals, post WW2, projects its ugliness onto Israel. From blood libels to cruely, Muslims project their sins onto others. It doesn't matter that the script is unrealistic, the Turkish blockbuster's plot was even more so, yet people just ate it up. Egyptians are supposed to be in peace with israel. For that very peace Israeli leaders ceded to Egypt huge territory, with oil, roads and airports Israelis created. Israelis definitely got a raw deal.
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