Opinion  Giulio Meotti
Hollywood against Israel
Giulio Meotti
Published: 12.04.12, 14:16
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91. 87 - All over the map busy pointing finger ,...
split ,   US   (04.13.12)
Do some soul searching ,...
92. It looks like split has split personality.
Anna ,   Montreal, Canada   (04.14.12)
In one post accusing me being an Israeli teenager , in an another- labeling me the orthodox Jew. But in both cases split managed to express his deepest hate toward the Jews. I am in peace with my soul. I work hard and pay my taxes. And my friends regardless of being Jews, Christians or Atheists never allow themselves to write about any ethnic group like you just did.
93. # 71 Biased observer !
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (04.14.12)
Did Mohammed bring any proof that he is a messenger of God ?.anybody can claim that he is a messenger of God,stalin hitler,mao tze tong,and the followers scream,yes master,you are the messenger,you are the prophet,you are god,anybody questioning the claim is put to death.
94. To: No. 89
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.14.12)
Predictably enough, you are asking the wrong question. What you need to inquire about is HOW JEWS REMEMBER POLAND! You're an ass, spit. Trust me -- you do NOT want the answer to the foregoing question. It'll just embarrass you -- but you don't really seem to care about embarrassing yourself, do you? After all, you (sigh) do it all the time.
95. #91 - Split
Devorah   (04.14.12)
Listen. You are the one who needs to do some soul searching because you come off as being overly obsessed and unstable. And if you think you are going to win your little war here, you are dead wrong.
96. 88
(04.14.12)
actually, no, he didn't ignore lazare's roots. lazare was a jew. BUT THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN IN THE LATE 18TH CENTURY, YOU MORON.
97. #90
(04.14.12)
i am a french, fancophone and quebequise living in outremont for the past 34 years. i am not a jew, but a catholic. we french have multitudes of religious and secular jews living amongst us and believe me that they are the most polite, productive, hard working and nicest people i have ever encountered. outremont has always been a wonderful community for both catholic french and jewish residents. i am very surprised that you paint outremont in such a way. we have never ever had any problems with anyone jewish in montreal at all. what are you talking about? by the way. it is not as you spelled MONTERALIS. THE CORRECT SPELLING IS MONTREALERS. please do some fact finding and spell check before you post this kind of lie and nonsense. and please do not step foot in montreal. it is hateful people like you that we montrealers, both jews and christians, do not like or need. carolyn b. lafontaine, phd. outremont, quebec canada
98. Arab TV runs all kinds of shows
Scarborough1414 ,   Scarborough, Canada   (04.14.12)
To my great surprise, Egyptian TV ran "Seinfeld" some years ago. I can't say how accurate the translations were (they used subtitles) but one Egyptian observer told me (here in Canada) that everyone knew that Jerry Seinfeld was Jewish. There was little complaining. Mostly they thought it was pretty funny.
99. two notes
lolo ,   amman   (04.14.12)
when the posts are many they are at the end one against the other forgot the main subject hollywood was with israil before now there is some change but the cause and result is it inters evry home on the earth becouse of the advanced tech. sure it is against israil mainly the mideast were and are and will be against israil as israil will be the spine in its heart < jews were in evry place in te middle east but without any problem but is rail are with many problem . here i speak about people not goverment or policy .. yes jews were effective active in any sociaty but when they are as a state they were weakened
100. 97 - please do some fact finding ,...
split ,   US   (04.14.12)
Here are some facts - Google "Outremont’s unholy mess" ,... Ask their neighbors in Jerusalem, New Square, Brooklyn, Queens , wherever what do they thing about them ,...
101. 92 - never allow themselves to write about any ethnic group
split ,   US   (04.14.12)
No kiddin' Meotti's writing and 95% of your comments are nothing but demonising others and victimised Jews/Israelis ,...
102. 94 - What you need to inquire about is HOW JEWS REMEMBER POL
split ,   US   (04.14.12)
Take a note - In 1939 out of the 3.3 million Jews in Poland over 90% were Orthodox just like the lovely bunch in New Square, NY or in Israel with almost 3/4 on welfare as we speak. After 800 years together 3/4 of them couldn't communicate in native language and 90% couldn't write a sentence. Forget their loyalty or rather lack of it, they didn't serve in Armed Forces and welcomed every invader that showed up at Polish borders including Nazis and Commies. If the Poles were so bad why there were more Jews in Poland than the rest of Europe ?
103. #102. split: you uneducated pinhead
Tom ,   USA   (04.14.12)
It was Czarina Catherine the Great (1700's) who designated a territory - outside Russia proper - where Jews were permitted to dwell. It's called "The Pale of Settlement, 1791". The map shows why Jews were numerous in Poland. You could read about it but you prefer reading the Mein Kampf and vomit your daily dose of poison, bro, you primitive "pinhead".
104. #8 Tom - where have you been
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (04.14.12)
Mel Gibson is the latest, it's been in the news for the last week, try reading some
105. #11 Taylor T
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (04.14.12)
Ever hear of Mel Gibson, he's the latest
106. #Joshua - Brado was PAID to star
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (04.14.12)
He didn't volunteer of his own free will
107. 103 - The map shows why Jews were numerous in Poland ,...
split ,   US   (04.14.12)
The Jews were there (before 1791 and Catherine the Great) in such a great numbers because Poland allowed them to come and stay after they got expelled from other nations and places ,... Check the map of Poland prior to her partition by 3 powers and find out where the settlement was located.
108. #31 NON-OBSERVER
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (04.14.12)
You personally witnessed all of this, in the same way you came by all of your tripe, past & present, with the convenience of Google doing for you Make an effort, come up with something or other that you haven't merely coped & pasted Your routine is long past being boring
109. Hollywood is merely a facade
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (04.14.12)
it shoudln't be used as if it meant anything Look at their movide studio sets, there is nothing in back of the front
110. #103
Tomek ,   Poland   (04.14.12)
Your historical horizon is somewhat limited. The Pale was established not as a dumping ground for Russian Jews, the number of whom was very limited anyway, but as a means to keep the Jews of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from moving eastwards to Russia proper. It is no coincidence that the Pale was established in 1791 at the time when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was being dismantled by her neighbors, including Russia. Needless to say, Russia had had nothing to do with creating a large Jewish population within the Commonwealth to begin with.
111. #110. Spinning words.
Tom ,   USA   (04.14.12)
What's your point? The "Pale of Settlement" explains as to why Jews were concentrated in Poland. Yes, they were dumped from Russia/Moscow (Google) by Catherine II. To the South the Austro-Hungarian empire blocked their movement. The territory changed considerably from 1791 until 1835 along with the overall changes that modified most European nation's borders. The Internet offers wide range of information in this regards - including detailed maps - so nobody is dependent on Polish interpretation of world history.
112. 111 - One more time pinhead ,...
split ,   US   (04.15.12)
There was no way to conduct a census of Jews, establish their numbers and enforce the decree. Read Solzhenitsyn's "200 years together" and find out why ??? ,...
113. Not only American actors. Let's go back
Vardina   (04.15.12)
to WWII: Did the US grant entrance permits to Jewish refugees? Did the US take the slightest effort toward saving 6 million European Jews?? Many Americans are Jew haters from birth. They don't like the idea that today we have our own state and are capable of fighting back. They will burn in their hatred while we will prosper and grow. Amen.
114. #23: You know very little about us. This is
(04.15.12)
probably due to ignorant Islam preaching that locks you inside the chains of your fantatic barbarian religion.
115. #111
Tomek ,   Poland   (04.15.12)
My point is that history did not start in 1791. By the time of the Partitions, the Commonwealth had already been the epicenter of Jewish life. Your claim that Jews first showed up in Poland en masse because Catherine made them go there is factually incorrect.
116. Once again
Darius   (04.15.12)
there is Sarah B. from USA/Israel the jewish Jeanne d’Arc who slams and lectured anyone who dares to write anything what differs from the official zionist agenda with her usual my Israeli d..k is bigger than yours attitude
117. #116 Darius
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (04.15.12)
What has your contribution to the conversation been, other than criticizing Sarah B.?
118. Hollywood Against Israel
Chaim Leibowitz ,   Modiin,Israel   (04.15.12)
I think everyone here needs to take a step back and really try to understand what we are talking about. The Actors that are boycotting Israel are for the most part just liberal lemmings that follow the liberal mantra regardless of whos being boycotted. As said before there are plenty of very powerful pro-Israel and Pro-Jewish heavy hitters in Hollywood. Why not any pro_israe movies you ask? Write a script that will garuntee a studio millions in profit and they will produce your movie. I for one will not fall into hysterics because some two bit actor doesnt like me or my country. Dont get trolled by trolls in these talkbacks that post stuff that they know will get the responses they want.
119. #68, SB WRONG AGAIN
Frank-el ,   Seattle USA   (04.15.12)
You claim that the "Arabs started each and every war against Israel". Once again, you are incorrect. The majority of non-biased scholars as well as the government of Israel admit recognize Israel initiated the Six Day War. US intellegence also disagrees with your erroneous statement. Spare us the circular rhetoric about preemptive strikes (shades of Iran?) and the tiresome "sticks and stones" arguments (again, shaes of Iran). Given your logic, the USA should have attacked the Soviet Union (or vice versa) and begun WW3...oh, but I forgot you have the double standard card in your deck, eh? Despite the likes of you and others like you to rerwrite history to your liking, the simple fact is that Israel initiated hostilities. This war fever was best exemplified by the murder of 34 Americans on the USS Liberty by Israeli air forces...remember that one? Please have another sip of wine before posting and calm down...you'll live longer. And the beat goes on...
120. Frank-El You're all wet!!
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (04.16.12)
The Six-Day War Causes and Consequences What was the Six-Day War? Who were the combatants and why did they fight? How did the war affect the region and how did the world react? Using research and analysis gathered from respected experts in Middle East history, politics and other related fields, this Web site answers those questions; because to understand the literal and metaphorical map of the modern Middle East — the geographic positions held by the region’s armies and the negotiating positions held by its leaders — one must first understand the Six-Day War, and more importantly, its causes and consequences. This is true not because the current strife began on June 5, 1967 with the outbreak of war — it did not — but rather for the opposite reason: Many of the attitudes and forces that led to the Six-Day War were the same as those that had fueled conflict in the region since even before Israel’s independence in 1948, and are the same as those that still stoke tensions there today. That both the Six-Day War and the current conflict stem from the same root issues is evinced by two similar statements uttered almost 40 years apart: In 1967, an Arab participant in the war that had just ended described the fighting as “not a new war but part of the old war” from 1948 — the war against Israel's founding (Associated Press, Lighting Out of Israel, 156). Israeli leaders and pundits would later use a nearly identical description — “a continuation of the (1948) War of Independence” — to characterize the Palestinian violence and Israeli response that began in 2000, the so-called second intifada. The major factor instigating conflict between Israel and its neighbors — whether in 1967, 2000 or any other time — has been the the Arab leadership's rejection of the legitimate right of Jews to reconstitute their national home in the Middle East, and Israel's attempt to cope with the security challenges caused by this rejectionism. As far back as 1929, when Arab rioters attacked Jewish communities in Palestine and massacred their inhabitants, the civil and human rights of Jews had been under violent attack. In 1948 it became an existential issue, with six Arab armies attacking the newly independent Israel in an attempt to wipe the state off the map. Again in 1967, in the run up to the Six-Day War, Israel’s existence seemed to hang in the balance. As the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan openly prepared for battle against Israel, and Arab leaders and the Arab "street" called for its destruction, Israel faced frightful choices. “We had already started thinking in terms of annihilation, both national and personal,” explained Lt. Yossi Peled, a Holocaust survivor who was at the time a lieutenant in the Israel army. Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, realizing the immense military challenge that would be caused by an Arab attack, told his cabinet: “God help us through if they hit us first.” Chief of Staff Yitzkhak Rabin had a nervous breakdown, which for a short time kept him from his duties. Israel’s hospitals prepared for mass casualties, not only from the advanced conventional weapons supplied by the Soviets to Egypt and Syria and by the West to Jordan, but also from chemical weapons, which Egypt was known to have used during its war in Yemen. The tensions continued to mount while Israel’s Prime Minister Levy Eshkol insisted, even as more and more Arab troops massed on the borders, that diplomatic attempts to resolve the crisis be exhausted before Israel would consider military action. This was the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict before the Six-Day War, or in other words, before Israel ever occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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