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Doesn't anyone think its strange that in an area described as being "like the Warsaw ghetto"- they get first run American movies?

Cameron blasts Israel boycotts

Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has strongly condemned efforts to boycott Israeli artists after his name was wrongly added to one such recent petition.

“To suppress a gathering of artists, from afar, through boycott or any other means of exerting pressure, is wrong,” Cameron, whose latest movie, Avatar, recently became the highest-grossing film of all time, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

“It is ridiculous to punish artists for the actions of governments, under any circumstances,” he said. “And to ask other artists to exert political pressure on a government, no matter what one’s opinion of that government or its policies, by punishing artists, is obscene on its face.”

Cameron made his comments to the Post after a letter, which called on participants in this year’s Tel Aviv University student film festival to boycott the event, was circulated with his and Jane Fonda’s names as the initial signatories.

Fonda’s publicist, Pat Kingsley, told the Post that the world-famous actress “had nothing to do with this letter and knew nothing about it and does not agree with it.”

And Cameron, in an e-mail to the Post, explained that “I was dragged into this without permission or notification, and do not personally support the position of those who wrote the letter.”

He noted that he had received apologies for the mistake of including his name and added, “I hope, fervently, that the brief and erroneous use of my name did not influence others to sign.”

The draft petition, which originated in Canada, was circulated in recent weeks to gather signatures by “concerned film teachers, scholars and filmmakers,” according to the letter.

In his remarks to the Post, Cameron distinguished between calls for boycotts of goods and services versus forums for artistic expression, saying that in this case, “if these people want their views expressed, they should go to the film festival themselves and speak out. Better yet, they should make a film expressing their beliefs and run it there.

“When film is forced to be political, it’s called propaganda,” he continued. “It is up to the artistic community to firewall itself from political pressure, so that opinions may be expressed freely.”

Boycott Cameron, who does not denounce the racist, nuclear, pirate state of Is real.

another staged, cropped photo, meaning nothing.
and of course the guardian published it. Big woop

I want to see an actual *crowd* of Smerfs before I believe that under the continuing siege, these people have anything at all to celebrate, like "getting first run" movies; until they have open commerce and freedom to travel at will, in their own land.
Of course the Is real lobby wants to use any excuse to play down the hell they visit upon their captive population of native residents.
Like; oh wow, getting to see a new movie behind the walls and razor wire of their occupiers and this is supposed to make everything okay...

"Like; oh wow, getting to see a new movie behind the walls and razor wire of their occupiers and this is supposed to make everything okay..."


Well, duh- if you are getting first run American movies and can afford to pay for it, maybe its not "just like the Warsaw ghetto".

maybe if there are malls like this in Jenin, its "not like the Warsaw ghetto"

I don't know if Palestinian supporters deliberately lie, or if they just don't know any better. The info is out there, if you only look.

just google Jenin mall- its for luxury items. All the Arabic paper have it.

A new luxury mall opened on the outskirts of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. It is reported that the five-story Hirbawi Home Center cost $5 million to build and is filled with foreign brands carrying upscale products, from espresso machines to plasma screens.

"like the Warsaw ghetto"- they get first run American movies?"
I was responding to the shallow report and the comments from the zionist extremists.
Neither of which merit credit for anything.
And particularly the pathetic attempt to infer normalcy in the lives of these people, still under siege. 5 people painted blue is not news worthy. It's not even a peg to espouse any difference between one occupational malevolence or another newer one.

I'd say the one who keeps ending up in the hidden zone.
The one who has all its comments stripped from the thread, sometimes. Not often enough, but sometimes.

Another Palestinian protester and potential winner in the darwin awards

and you can really tell when they hurt.
Can I help?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588027,00.html

Thursday , March 04, 2010

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Gaza's Islamic Hamas government on Thursday banned men from working in women's hair salons, the latest step in its campaign to impose strict Islamic customs on Gaza's 1.5 million people.

Since seizing Gaza in 2007, Hamas has taken steps in that direction while avoiding a frontal assault on secularism. The majority of Gaza residents are conservative Muslims, but Hamas is under growing pressure from more radical groups to prove its fundamentalist credentials by imposing ever harsher edicts.

The latest measure irked one of the victims of the ban.

"Next thing you know, they will ban doctors from treating women, and will only let women treat women," said Barakat al-Ghoul, a 44-year-old hairdresser. "Tomorrow, they will ban everything."

Al-Ghoul, who has cut women's hair for 26 years, said a ban would be devastating. He said he has no other way of making a living....

that's *much* worse than murderous rampages with full mechanized military assault on * captive* civilian population centers in surprise attacks...by other 'chosen people'
no wonder hair salons are doing bad PR...under the circumstances. Things can get impolite with F15s dropping loads off around you during a nice shampoo...

no, I'm still talking about war criminals. Particularly the Is real criminals who cannot stand the light of discovery and, like Kissinger, have to check to see if they're under an arrest warrant before they visit the country in question. Someday after they are hung, they will be feeding the trees of traitor park so the people can tread on their roots.

this thread in its entirety.
and it shows that the Guardian is engaging in trivialities to make it seem the residents of a ravaged Gaza are "getting first run movies" making this misery somehow a cute little publicity stunt.
but going through the entire uncensored thread is very instructive of life in occupied Palestine overlorded by psychopathic *racist* hate freaks who can only point their blood crusted fingers everywhere else.

I see that you don't mind showing everyone that you don't even remember the point you were going to show us.
You've shown us that the previous statement makes no sense whatsoever....to anyone but yourself.
well, you are laughing man, escaped@patton ...
we should expect these episodes; and do...

Naive Americans have the strangest fantasies about the Palestinians! Not only do Palestinans not live in tents in refugee camps, they have first run movies cable televsion and I have never seen a Palestinian without a cell phone.

sometimes they live in the streets after the bulldozers and 2000lb bombs from F 15s and heavy artillery are finished doing their function.
Sometimes they just litter the streets and they don't live.

To the mentally disordered Israel Haters, fantasy is better than reality! Not only do Palestinians" NOT live in tents, their supposed "refugee camps" are much the same as any other citites in the Mid East. A new shopping mall was just opened in Nazareth, the economy is doing quite well there. If the truth actually supported what they had to say, then "anti-Zionists" wouldn't need to lie all of the time.

show us a select market that is overflowing with goods in the Potemkin Market while Is Real still holds Gaza under siege.
we've seen it all so many times. the same staged photos while the IDF kills journalists and lies and lies and lies.

As a Gay Palestinian currently living in El Cerrito, I am aware of the horrible consequences for Gays in Gaza and the West Bank. Honor killings aren't JUST for daughters!