Thursday, March 2, 2006
Palestinian Media Watch has collected in one place the "farewell videos" of six suicide bombers:
"We are a nation that drinks blood, and we know that there is no blood better than the blood of Jews.""My dear mother ... wipe your tears... Don't let me see you sad on my wedding day with the Maidens of Paradise."
"Escort our souls to Heaven after we fulfill this duty of crushing the descendents of monkeys and pigs."
"I hoped that the shredded limbs of my body would be shrapnel, tearing the Zionists to pieces, knocking on Heavens door with the skulls of Zionists... My blood shall be my path to march to Heaven."...
There is a petition to revoke the Oscar nomination of Paradise Now here, and story from the UK Telegraph, here: Bereaved parents call on Oscars to drop suicide bomb movie
Paradise Now, a film about two friends from the West Bank who decide to carry out a joint suicide attack in Israel, will compete in the best foreign language category at Sunday's Academy Awards.
Sunday is also the third anniversary of a attack by terrorists on a bus in the northern Israeli town of Haifa, which killed 17 people and wounded 53 others.
Among the dead were Yuval Mendelvitch, a 13-year-old boy whose parents yesterday sent a petition to Sid Gains, the president of the Academy of Motion Pictures, calling for Paradise Now's nomination to be withdrawn.
They are supported by the parents of Tal Kehrmann, a 17-year-old girl, and Assaf Tzur, a 17-year-old boy, who were among the dead...
Asaf's parents have a web site, here.
The petition will accomplish nothing, of course, but it may make you feel good to sign it, and I suppose that's its real purpose, as a moral weapon. Personally, I don't expect to be watching the Oscars. I haven't yet seen the film, but have read enough to be too disgusted to watch.
Update: Don't miss this interview with the director. You do not need to see the film to be disgusted -- with it and the Academy.
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It's unbelievable especially after what the pagan moslems have done to the USA. You people in Hollywood are American citizens aren't you or are you heathen islamics? R. & P. Patterson
"It's unbelievable especially after what the pagan moslems have done to the USA."
Muslims are not pagans but a monotheistic religion based on an unhealthy obsession with a fictional book, just like the Pat Robertson-loving nuts. That being said, Hollywood is where attractive communist go to get work that does not involve intelligence or productive labour so don't expect anything other than 200 proof stupidity from them.