"Lebanon"
Fri, 2010-09-24 23:40
#1
"Lebanon"
Fri, 2010-09-24 23:53
#2
There's a new film showing at our local community cinema.
Here's a blurb:
The First Lebanon War - June, 1982. A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. What seems to be a simple mission gradually spins out of control. Shmuel the gunner, Assi the commander more », Herzl the loader and Yigal the driver are the tank's crew, four 20-something boys who have never fought in a war and are now operating a killing machine. Though trying to remain brave, the boys are pushed to their mental limits as they struggle to survive in a situation they cannot contain, and try not to lose their humanity in the chaos of war
Oh boo frikkin' hoo. I guess you bastards should have thought about that before leaving the Zionist entity, or better yet, your homes in Germany and Poland.
Sat, 2010-09-25 00:10
#3
Cueball
Samuel Moaz the director is the main charachter in the film, and was born in Tel Aviv.
Sat, 2010-09-25 15:47
#4
Samuel Moaz the director is the main charachter in the film, and was born in Tel Aviv.
Thank you for that.
Sat, 2010-09-25 23:57
#5
Thanks for what? Who is Samuel Moaz?
Sun, 2010-09-26 00:09
#6
Cueball
The director. Apparently the story is his way of explaining away why it was hard for him to reconcile going to a place where he didn't belong and killing people he didn't know, and had nothing personal against.
Sun, 2010-09-26 01:16
#7
So, he wanted to be a bloodthirsty asshole but failed to acheieve that goal
PS: I apologize for my shit spelling.
Sun, 2010-09-26 01:35
#8
The director. Apparently the story is his way of explaining away why it was hard for him to reconcile going to a place where he didn't belong and killing people he didn't know, and had nothing personal against.
Irony noted; yet do you think this film is his insurance policy against being blown up in one of those notorious Israeli pizza parlours?
Sun, 2010-09-26 02:38
#9
Cueball
I expect the film is mere appologetics that talks about how traumatizing it is to be the tool of the imperial machine, so unless I hear differently, I will likely not see it. Sympathy for the devil is one thing, sympathy for the tools quite another.
Fri, 2011-06-03 14:20
#10
I saw this film on TV a few weeks ago. It wasn't what I'd expected. The Israelis weren't the good guys, really. The Falangists were definitely bad guys, while the Lebanese were shown as helpless victims (except for one Khaffiya-covered Kalshnikov wildman).
Mon, 2015-08-24 12:48
#11
So, rather than start a new thread, this one will do..
Trash Crisis in Beirut
"Clashes with police. Calls for govt to go."
Fri, 2015-08-28 12:34
#12
Lebanon At A Crossroad
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/bloggers/Lebanon-at-a-Crossroad-2015082...
"Is this yet another chapter of The Arab Spring? And if it is, then which Arab Spring are we talking about - That of a desperate people fighting for a better world - or that of the sinister interests injected by the West and Gulf states?"
This is not a Hollywood movie
Sat, 2015-08-29 20:03
#13
'Make It A Revolution!': Lebanon Protesters Give 72-Hour Ultimatum to Government (and vid)
http://www.rt.com/news/313790-lebanon-brace-protests-violence/
"Thousands of street protesters in Beirut are demanding the resignation of two government ministers..."
Fri, 2015-09-04 18:26
#14
The Capitulation of 'Grand Liban' - by Ghassan Kadi
http://thesaker.is/the-capitulation-of-grand-liban/
'Grand Liban' is capitulating. Its sectarian constitution has rotted away. Its political fabric has lost all solid ground to stand on. The decayed institutions that have been built on corruption aned bribery have reached a head."
Mon, 2015-10-19 04:14
#15
Enemies Not Safe As Long As Resistance Exists: Hezbollah Chief
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/18/433921/Lebanon-Nasrallah-Resista...
Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has hailed the sacrifices of resistance fighters, saying enemies cannot feel safe as long as the resistance front is alive.
Touching on the tensions in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian lands and the new wave of Israeli violence there, the Hezbollah chief called on all sides to stand by the oppressed Palestinian nation in its Intifada against the occupying regime of Tel Aviv.
He pointed to the 'Takfiri project' in the ME, saying were it not for the steadfastness of resistance fighters on the battlefield against Daesh and other extremist groups, the situation of the region would be even worse.
Referring to the Saudi aggression against Yemen, the Hezbollah chief stated that if Saudis manage to break the resistance of the Arab nation, al Qaeda and Takfiri elements will be able to step up their terror activities there."
Speech of HSG Hassan Nasrallah (and vid)
http://thesaker.is/speech-of-hezbollah-secretary-general-hassan-nasralla...
Sat, 2015-10-24 21:09
#16
Sayed Nasrallah Speech: Night of Ashura, Oct 23 (and vid)
http://www.shiatv.net/view_video.php?viewkey=1394945412
"On the regional American wars to punish those still standing who refuse to bow down."
Fri, 2015-11-13 14:11
#17
Beirut's Explosion: The Sunni-Shia Bellum Sanctum Returns to Hezbollah's Security Zone - by Franklin Lamb
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/13/beiruts-explosion-the-sunni-shia-...
"...Meanwhile the much anticipated, in some quarters, arrival of Da'ish (ISIS) to Hezbollah's security zone in south Beirut threatens to suck the current 270,000 Palestinians in Lebanon into the Syrian maelstrom..."
Sun, 2015-12-20 18:52
#18
Israeli Military Fires Artillery Into Lebanon
http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/12/20/442552/Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon-Qatar
"The Israeli regime's military forces have fired artillery into Lebanon, one day after killing a veteran fighter of the Hezbollah resistance movement in Syria. Hezbollah senior fighter Samir Quantar was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday night. The Israeli army said in a statement that it has 'responded' to the Lebanese reocket with 'targeted artillery fire'..."
Israel Airstrike Kills Top Hezbollah Member Near Damascus
http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/12/20/442447/Israel-Syria-Hezbollah-airst...
"The airstrike also left ten Syrian nationals dead, injuring a number of other civilans."
Once again Israel 'defends itself'.
Mon, 2015-12-21 19:49
#19
Nasrallah: Hezbollah To Respond To Israel's Assassination of Quntar
"Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah has no doubt that Israel carried out this assassination. He said Israeli warplanes fired missiles at the building where Quntar lived. He also condemned the international community's silence of the massacre of Muslims in Nigeria..."
Wed, 2015-12-23 17:12
#20
BAR: Palestinians Resist Zionist Terror, Plus US, European, Arab Royal, Turkish and Nigerian Terror - by Glen Ford
http://blackagendareport.com/palestinians_resist_zionist_terror
"They cluster in the prosperous, Christmas-themed streets of Beirut: Syrian mothers and their children begging from passersby until deep in the night; young girls holding infant siblings; pre-teen boys with shoe-shine cans who persist for blocks before finally taking no for an answer; grandmothers tapping on the windows of traffic-trapped cars.
One million Syrians have descended on neighboring Lebanon, a tiny nation of only four million people that now hosts the highest percentage of refugees in the world.
Nowhere is the refugee crisis more acute than in the camps of the Palestinians, themselves exiled from their neighboring homeland by Zionist terror 67 years ago. Half a million Palestinians are registered as refugees in Lebanon, with somewhat less than half of them living in 12 camps.
Malcolm X is big in Lebanon...."
I wonder how many Palestinian 'Syrian refugees' Canada selected?
Thu, 2015-12-24 00:16
#21
BAR: Palestinians Resist Zionist Terror, Plus US, European, Arab Royal, Turkish and Nigerian Terror - by Glen Ford
http://blackagendareport.com/palestinians_resist_zionist_terror
"They cluster in the prosperous, Christmas-themed streets of Beirut: Syrian mothers and their children begging from passersby until deep in the night; young girls holding infant siblings; pre-teen boys with shoe-shine cans who persist for blocks before finally taking no for an answer; grandmothers tapping on the windows of traffic-trapped cars.
One million Syrians have descended on neighboring Lebanon, a tiny nation of only four million people that now hosts the highest percentage of refugees in the world.
Nowhere is the refugee crisis more acute than in the camps of the Palestinians, themselves exiled from their neighboring homeland by Zionist terror 67 years ago. Half a million Palestinians are registered as refugees in Lebanon, with somewhat less than half of them living in 12 camps.
Malcolm X is big in Lebanon...."
I wonder how many Palestinian 'Syrian refugees' Canada selected?
With almost daily reports of stabbings of Israelis by Palestinian youths, the convention hummed with excitement at the prospect of a prolonged Third Intifada.
Sounds like a jolly good time was had at the conference