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One of these guys was a murderer, one wasn't


Ashraf overheard Jihad's plan to send a suicide murderer to Tel Aviv, yet he did nothing. This bombing ended up crippling Yeheli, and probably killed others.

Then after the death of his sister, Jihad's wife, at the hands of two soldiers (they had the right house but indescriminately shot a woman), Ashraf himself voluntarily went to murder civilians and in the end, he killed himself and his Jewish lover and wounded other people (who seem to be irrelevant to the film.)

Finally, after the murder, there is this sweet and heavenly voice-over by the Jewish partner in the end of the film explaining how they might have been friends. The film paints them both as victims, though one is a killer.

Enough with the moral relativism. One of these guys was a murderer, the other wasn't.

Enough with this shallow and ultimately meaningless Israeli soul searching! There isn't much introspection to match it on the other side.

I doubt this film would even be shown in Palestinian theaters.

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"...Arab attitudes towards homosexuality are often a lot less tolerant than those of Israelis living in Tel Aviv -- although the attitude of the Jews living in Me'a She'arim would probably be more like the Palestinians'."


It always amazes me that it's OK for Arab/Palestinian/Greek/Israeli-Jewish/Italian and men of other nationalities and ethnicities to DANCE together and peck each other on the cheek, but let the lips meet and WHOOOOOOOOOOOOA NELLIE--words like "abomination" and "sin" get bandied about almost enough so as dilute their meaning, and someone becomes a social/familial pariah.

Seems a tad hypocritical to me. <sigh>

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There are no Palestinian Theaters anyway.

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There is one in Ramallah

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