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Anti-Israel Agitprop on the Silver Screen by Phyllis Chesler FrontPageMagazine.com March 30, 2011 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/964/anti-israel-agitprop-on-the-silver-screen Send Comment RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Excerpt: Great works of art can persuade people to believe that a lie is true, that good is evil, and that evil is good. For example, the film Paradise Now, which I reviewed in these pages more than five years ago, is a brilliant piece of propaganda whose aim was—and still is—to support a (false) Palestinian "narrative" over and above its true Israeli counterpart. It is a powerful film, but one which does not serve the cause of truth so much as that of propaganda. Director Hany Abu-Assad's Israelis are all soldiers: ominous, hard-eyed, helmeted, armed, and in tanks. They are depersonalized and demonized. There are no exceptions. On the other hand, Abu-Assad portrays even Palestinian suicide killers as soulful and compassionate. They are made to seem western, or "just like us." Abu-Assad's only female character is completely fictional, but that is why we "like" her. She dresses in a modern, sexy way, lives alone (this is not possible), and is a European-style "pacifist." Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Film & Propaganda, Israel
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