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November 20, 2007
Hooray for Hamaswood!
Hamas is giving its western admirers one more reason to love the group: Hamas is buildings its very own movie production site in Gaza, according to the Jerusalem Post And Hamas is already expecting boffo B.O. for its first feature about a brave, speakin' truth to power preacher in the 1930s who fought -- you guessed it -- the Jews!
The first movie Hamas plans to shoot will be based on a novel by one of its hard-line leaders in Gaza, Mahmoud Zahar, the report said. Zahar has written seven novels, including a 1980 romance called "Beautiful Woman."A movie is also planned about Izzedine al-Qassam, an admired preacher who led a Palestinian revolt in the 1930s against the British and Jews in Palestine. Hamas' military wing is named for the charismatic leader.
To get international attention, this worthy project should cast some marquee names in supporting roles. For some in Hollywood, there's no such thing as pre-mature anti-Zionism. How about:
George Galloway as the sympathetic British official ready to fight Israel before Israel existed
Danny Glover as the sympathetic folk singer from Alabama
Barbra Streisand as the radical who thinks Birobdizhan is a much better place for Jews
Ed Asner in a kaffiyah
Rosie O'Donnell as the idealistic exchange student who falls in love with one of the brave anti-Zionists and says things like, "Gee willikers, now I know how the Jews make matzoh!"
Van | 11/20/07 at 10:36 PM | Categories: - Media as Theater of War
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it's important to remember about `Iz ad-Din al-Qassam that he was born in Latakiyya in what is now Syria and later became a Muslim preacher or imam in Haifa. So he wasn't a "palestinian." But when he was born, the Muslim Arabs didn't believe in any "palestine" separate from Syria. For them, it was all bilad ash-Sham, [that is, Syria or Greater Syria]. The whole notion of a palestinian people is a post-1948 invention.
I seem to recall reading that this fellow was also an Ottoman soldier in WW One. In that case, he could have helped out with the Armenian genocide [sorry, I know that George and Condi don't want us to call it a genocide].
btw, you'll be happy to know that PASSIA [palestinian academic society for the study of international affairs, based in Jerusalem] on its website calls this rather overenthusiastic imam a "social reformer." The PASSIA by the way is funded by the USAID, a State Department subsidiary. Your tax dollars at work.
Eliyahu | December 17, 2007 01:02 PM
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