Horrible review by biased reviewer

Here is the review by Stefan 414 in 08/06:

"Those Israeli soldiers at the checkpoints – total beasts, treating Palestinian women and children like Nazis treated "sub-human" Jews, Gypsies or Poles. There should be an international outcry and demand by the US (let's dream: a special Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing with trustworthy Palestinian witnesses) to bring civility and courtesy right there and punish those young arrogant brutes, full of hubris and chutzpah. Shame on the IDF leadership and civilian government of Israel for allowing this to happen. This is unforgivable and this detail alone in the movie makes me start detesting "things Israel" and morally condemn them. As much as Israel has the right to exist, they have a long way to go to figure out how to solve the problem they themselves are partly to be blamed for, as the movie exposes, notwithstanding the Arab dictatorships that have pushed relentlessly against the state of Israel, which the movie does not mention at all. For that, this excellent documentary receives 8 instead of 10. What Israel does now (August 2006) in Lebanon is foolhardy at best (an elephant in the porcelain store tactics) and they will be punished in the future by the ever stronger Arab, fanatically religious Muslim or Palestinian irredentist movements.

I do not believe in 2 separate states in that small piece of land. It is downright silly from the ecological standpoint if you think about it. I vote for one new state*: call it whatever you want: The Palestine Republic of Israel (or The Israel Republic of Palestine) - with equal rights for the Palestinians. With one condition from the outset – it must be a secular state and all religions should be a private matter of their worshipers with external displays of it confined only to the interior of their respective worship houses).

War interests in the U.S. (and Israel and Syria and Iran) will never allow for permanent peace though. "War is good" for them (for different reasons, not only greed in case of the US and Israel) and unless we get rid of the criminals in the WH the worst is yet to come. The neo-cons are pushing Israel for a greater conflict, trying to suck in Syria and eventually Iran. This will all play out before November…

Arabs should be told loud and clear that in the wake of WWII many nations were moved from one location to another (e.g. Poles, Germans), had to accept the new geo-political reality and live with that whether they liked it or not. Another point is that due to aggression by the Arabs in 1967 Israel gained territory. This is called spoils of war. Too bad Arabs started that war. So once and for all they should stop whining and accept things fairly. Only then the world community will treat them fairly. It is ironic now that Palestinians, Hezbollah and other Arab knuckle heads are rejecting the Israel's right to exist, whereas Palestinians themselves yarn for their own state (read right to exist). An untenable inconsistency and hypocrisy. They have to grow up and so do the Israelis. The only solution to this problem is 1) to remove the Bush criminal squad (the biggest military and economic terrorists on the face of Earth) from the WH, so the world at large starts to trust the American people again 2) form an International Council of Sages that will hold the world mandate to resolve that conflict. Send them down there to meet with the moderates (chosen from peoples representatives) on both sides, and offer them the best equitable solution. Try to stay away from current politicos and government of Israel - make an apeal to the population instead (who is at least 50% secular, i.e. reassonable). They should get rid of the corrupt American a** kissers who are currently in the pocket of neo-cons leading that country and the world to disaster 3) Both Palestinians and Israeli should refrain from use of force and violence during those talks. 4) Again, in this process try to avoid at all cost politicians, especially of criminally lying Condi Rice type. 5) Once the consensus on both sides is achieved US democratic-by-that-time Senate should enact law of banning any weapon exports from the US. 6) Worldwide campaign to shut down armament factories and convert them to wind mill and other sustainable energy plants should follow. 7) Don't forget to put Rupport Murdoch on trial for trying so hard to dismantle the US constitution… Let's wake up, the Earth is too precious thing to loose…

* Why not creating there Middle East Union (Jordan, Israel, Lebanon) and avoid the state issue at all. The state concept is so much XIX-th century anyway."





This is a logical response to his comments, for those who are not familiar with the conflict on 09/07/08:



First off the creator of this movie is a man who makes a living in advertising and telling you how to think. Just putting it out there.

Now lets go into your review, which is very biased.

A) You say that the israel checkpoint guards are treating the palestinians like animals. Women and children included. Now why is that? Maybe because they palestinians act like animals and conduct suicide bombings on a regular basis. Sometimes using women and children. From 2000-2003 there have been 29 suicide bombings using children under the age of 18, 22 shootings using children under the age of 18, and 40 attempted suicide bombings by children under the age of 18. THat is why the israelis act like that.

B) As to your point about a single state. Israel is a single secular nation. But i guess you dont pay attention to that fact. it is not run by jewish law, and accepts all cultures and races to be part of the government. Israel is a representative democracy, and the judicial system has a secular court system AND a system for religious types, both jewish and muslim.


C) Yes war is good, but a war in the middle east with our ally is not good. An attack by or on israel will lead to insane gas prices, the disruption of oil production in the middle east, and the closure of the straits of hormuz by the Iranians. Which will lead to a wider US war, which is not something even the neo-cons want. Also, you wrote that it will lead to a wider conflict by November, its two years later and nothing.

D) Your solution to the problems makes no sense. You say the only solution is, and then you rattle off 7 points. So let me go into the:

1- Bush has nothing to do with the climate there. It was like this before bush, and it will remain that way after he is gone. You have an agenda and has no place in a review of this movie.

2- A council of sages? Wow. Sounds fun. Let me see, you are going to get a group of moderates to sit around a table, divide up the power and everything will be ok right? Too bad the problem in this part of the world is never the moderates, but always the fringe and fundamentalist groups, on both sides. You and i can talk all you want, but if your crazy cousin comes to my house and kills my wife, i will have problems with your people. Be logical man. You dont think that this has been tried before. It doesnt work. The UN tired, the US tried, the EU tried, and the middle east tried.

3- Yes they should refrain from force, but fringe elements who like war, or want a Jewish or Muslim state ruled by religion will not refrain, because it is not in their best interest to do so.

4- You are going to set up a new country without involving politicians? How is that going to happen? Who leads? Doesnt that make them politicians? Do you think the israeli government is gonna let some college professor, some blow hard iman, and a taxi cab driver come in and divide up the country:? How will that country look anyway? Dont you need political experience to solve a problem like the ARAB ISRAELI CONFLICT?

5- The US government enacting a law that takes money from american companies like boeing and colt. Great idea. We should also stop the export of computers and american automobiles to israel also. That way we can *beep* our country up so they can live in harmony.
OR WHAT WILL HAPPEN - the people that came to the US for guns will go to china and russia for guns. They are going to buy guns either way, why then would we stop? The conflict will continue with or without the US. We are not going to stop this. THey have to.

6- Yes lets build alternative technology. The US should build plants to do this because it will be a huge industry for the next 50 years with oil decreasing by the day. But to shut down armament plants globally is just plain CRAZY. Are you kidding? That is where the US makes its money. Why would we do such a thing. Do you think other countries are gonna lose money for the Arabs and Israelis to be happy? Dont think so.

7-I dont know what thats about. More of your own personal feelings and in no way related to this movie. Save it for an op ed piece.

You review was biased and wrong. Your proposal for a middle east union would lead to even more problems. What to do with the king of Jordan. The large Christian population in lebanon. The hatred by the lebanese hezbollah and palestinian hamas units who now must live in the same state as jews that they plan to wipe off the face of the earth. Sounds like a winning strategy. S

Do us all a favor and stick to making comments to ignorant people who know nothing. That might be the worst plan for peace i have ever heard.