Mideast/North African Films Jostle for Oscar Shortlist Attention
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Although this year’s Middle Eastern/North African Oscar submissions have yet to generate a strong buzz, there are titles among the 10 films that could be contenders for the international feature short list.
Chief among them is “Sun Children” from veteran Iranian helmer Majid Majidi, whose 1997 “Children of Heaven” landed a foreign-language film nomination. This gripping drama about exploited urban street kids is cast with charismatic, non-pro performers and earned an acting award at the Venice fest for its resilient young protagonist. Strand Films will release.
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If you’re looking for examples of spin in B’tselem’s latest anti-Israel document, in which the organization slings around the inflammatory terms “apartheid” and “Jewish supremacy,” there are plenty.
Consider, as one small example, the report’s charge that Israel has built “hundreds of communities for Jewish citizens – yet not a single one for Palestinian citizens.” The sentence was written to sound as damning as possible, which increases its shock value, but also left the authors in the uncomfortable position of having to immediately rebut their own falsehood. “The exception,” B’tselem admits in the very next sentence, “is a handful of towns and villages built to concentrate the Bedouin population.”
Time for Israelis to confront the inconvenient truth
Yossi Mekelberg
January 26, 2021 22:08
The Israeli national flag flutters as apartments are seen in the background in the settlement of Efrat, in the occupied West Bank, Aug. 18, 2020. (Reuters)
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For years, friends and colleagues, many of them Palestinian, have been telling me that the manner in which Israel governs the Palestinians and not only in the occupied West Bank and blockaded Gaza Strip amounts to an apartheid regime. Intellectually, I understood their arguments and I have always sympathized with their plight. Yet, despite my fundamental political and moral objections, and sometimes disgust at the treatment not only of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank but also of those living inside Israel, who are supposed to enjoy full rights as citizens, I couldn’t bring myself to admit, even to myself, that the country of my birth was capable of intentionally, institutionally and s
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