Waltz With Bashir
REVISIONIST REDUX or, Just Another Holocaust movie afterall? You be the judge.
(Bashir Gemayel) who was assassinated by another Christian Maronite in league with Mossad operative Elie Hobeika who confessed or rather, was about to confess a few years back and then he too was murdered (by Mossad). Gemayel was murdered in order to rally the Christian Phalangist Forces against their muslim countrymen and the Palestinians and this in turn led to the Sabra and Shatilla Massacre (anniversary is rapidly approaching in September I believe). That in turn led to the bombing of the US Marine Barracks in 1983 by muslim activists hell bent on justice for the real culprits who were Ronald Reagan, his administration who were in league with Israel. The massacre is depicted in the Oscar Nominated movie as something that happened and the Jews were "helpless" victims and witnesses to the affair.
The movie is animated most brilliantly. Problem is and even Israeli journalists and viewers agree, it was up for an award while yet another Israeli atrocity was taking place as the grossly negligent creator of the movie stood up to accept his prizes and didn't mention a thing about the war being waged on the people in Gaza. Shame upon shame, hypocrit extraordinaire!
Most recently, Israel assassinated another leader.....Rafik Hariri and attempted to blame it on the usual suspect (Syria) and when that failed, Israel moved into Lebanon and destroyed all the bridges and murdered somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,000 people...roughly the same amount killed in this hypocritical movie Waltz With Bashir and roughly a similar amount that were being killed as the movie made it into the awards circle.
Israel failed to instigate a civil war between muslims in Lebanon for the Hariri assassination and suceeded with the Christian Phalangists? Why you might ask.
Hezbollah. That's why.
This movie however needs to be flagged as Pro Zionist Propaganda, no more and no less. I advise people to see it anyway. The animated scenes are wonderful and it provides any viewer REVISIONIST albeit relatively true portrayal of the elements of the massacre. It just fails to point the finger at the right murderers.
Although...I have to give it to the creator on this one....the seed of truth that perhaps he didn't even notice is that psychiatry and dreams...the tools with which he tells his half baked story are the basis of revisionism. In that, he hit the nail right on it's messed up Zionist headspace. Now, my father who shot and killed many people in WWII, NEVER forgot about them. He used to regale us with his tales of woe sans psychoanalysis AND with alcohol. So....this director is preaching to the choir if you ask me....but he can draw pretty good and love that little Jewish kid in the background and depicted as "oh such a nice" middle class Jewish boy doing middle class Jewish things in er.....most likely a home BORROWED from its real owners, a homeless Palestinian family who most likely are buried in the rubble of the Gaza strip.
The cocks were storm-crowing that morning
after a real long spell of total
environmental darkness. Two broughams sped by.
(In the land of the prophets
the angels speak out-loud,
people pretend not to notice.
Here it is the status quo.)
All the clocks whirred with quick sighs
and at sunset the clouds were full of the dust
from extinct volcanoes.
On the beach loversbodies were kissing
each other while long lost birds
perched in the Cedars up north
and sang their common song of return.
On the Corniche, people brought
valentines, coffee and cardammon
from every shop on Hamra.
Then everything just stopped.
Windows fell
apart
and people ran home, started looking.
Zoom in, zoom out, zoom in, zoom out.
I felt around for my watch to note the time.
School was letting out and I compared JFK,
that unholy day to this one. Must have been similar,
the way we huddled close and locked
all our doors, turned on our TVs .
Human forms felt their way toward the crater
and the same herd of goats crossed my path twice.
for months and years on end.
No more luck, no more money, no more beadsmen.
The predictions are keen to usurp everyone
and the last unlucky man born will keep vigil
near a pitcher of water and a set of lost keys,
a tape recorder will produce the truth.
Airports fell first and then the invasions,
a graveyard was blown into the sky
and the dairies all went dry
but it does take some time, perhaps forever.
The poor remained indifferent.
One man was found two weeks later in the rubble,
pointing in one direction, holding his cell.
No one called out the dogs because it is said
the canines ate the corpses in Sabra and Shatilla.
I wonder.. to whom was he speaking,
where was he pointing?
Real photos of the massacre
Qana MassacreS ONE and TWO
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