Comments on: Hollywood and Israel http://fanonite.org/2007/02/23/hollywood-and-israel/ Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:14:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Edwards Still In the Race « The Fanonite http://fanonite.org/2007/02/23/hollywood-and-israel/#comment-1703 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:52:18 +0000 http://fanonite.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/silence-of-the-lambs-hollywood-and-israel/#comment-1703 [...] regard this is a minor relief. However, his chances of success appear slim. Especially after the incident in Hollywood that was reported earlier: The aggressively photogenic John Edwards was cruising along, detailing [...]

]]> By: TV Arabs « The Fanonite http://fanonite.org/2007/02/23/hollywood-and-israel/#comment-1390 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:53:01 +0000 http://fanonite.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/silence-of-the-lambs-hollywood-and-israel/#comment-1390 [...] As in Hollywood the ethnic loyalties of the producers of most of these shows also influence their politics. As Hollywood has utilized its mythmaking powers in the service of Israel, so does TV. Jeffrey Blankfort stresses the need to look into ”who is producing and writing the pro-Israel and anti-Arab propaganda that emanates nightly from the boob tube.” Commenting on a letter from Alison Weir of If Americans Knew, about Rachel Corrie being smeared on a popular TV program, Blankfort writes: I first discovered Haim Saban when, out of curiosity one Saturday morning years ago, I watched an episode of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the weekly kids program that made Saban a billionaire, and waited to  the end to see who had produced an episode starring a pretty blond Israeli girl that was clearly a piece of pro-Israel propaganda and there was Saban’s name as the producer. The producer of “24,” Joel Surnow, who is making torture by the “good guys” an acceptable practice on his weekly program, is a perfect case in point and here in Law and Order we see that nothing is safe or sacred from their propagandizing for Israel.-JB [...]

]]> By: Monte http://fanonite.org/2007/02/23/hollywood-and-israel/#comment-1360 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:19:39 +0000 http://fanonite.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/silence-of-the-lambs-hollywood-and-israel/#comment-1360 Bravo, thanks, needs to be said.

]]> By: Freeborn http://fanonite.org/2007/02/23/hollywood-and-israel/#comment-1353 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:38:50 +0000 http://fanonite.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/silence-of-the-lambs-hollywood-and-israel/#comment-1353 The collage captures admirably Hollywood’s pathetic attempts to denigrate Arab culture and simultaneously soften up the great unwashed US hillbilly,trailer trash public for war in the Middle East.

Can you imagine sitting in some redneck cinema with a crowd of these lemmings swilling their Budweiser and choking on their pretzels and popcorn as they watch Arabs being wasted by the US military? As they bay for the next drop of camel-jockey blood one can always relish the compensatory thought that it’ll be exactly these dross who’ll be recruited to do the dying and killing soon to take place in the real (non-Hollywood) world.

The clips actually tell us far more about Americans than they do about Arabs.The picture that emerges is one of a culture shaped by its past as a settler nation built on genocide and mass enslavement.Such a nation is dumb enough to think it can build an Empire again in the 21st century.Most sane people can see the US is already vastly overstretched and on the point of yet another ignominious defeat.

Lest we forget the Pentagon advises on all films featuring the US military.Films like Rules of Engagement,True Lies and The Siege all use Islamic terrorism as a plot device.Scenes in which Arab civilians are mown down by US soldiers anticipate the real life enaction of such atrocities in Fallujah and other Sunni Iraqi cities that dared to resist.

Such fare is instrumental in defining Arabs as evil thereby shielding the US itself from some way overdue self-srutiny.The films shown also exhibit the mindless
endemic racism which would deny co-eval status to Arab culture by dwelling on the supposed atrophy of the Islamic world vis a vis the spurious vitality of the US based on its military might and free market economy.

The films also purvey the familiar narcissistic US belief in their fundamental fairmindedness.The US (doesn’t this sound just like the pathetic vain British self-image)should be forgiven its failure to understand its enemies because at the end of the day most Americans have no say in their country’s foreign policy anyway.Notwithstanding the fact that US media and scholarship are saturated with Orientalist
perceptions and its society is now the most militaristic in the world.Like the British self-image of fair-mindedness and fair play it is as about as at odds with cultural reality as it gets.

The military-industrial complex has used Hollywood since the end of the Cold War to reorient the great unwashed and ill-informed US public towards new enemies sitting on their oil in the Middle East.

]]> By: naj http://fanonite.org/2007/02/23/hollywood-and-israel/#comment-1351 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:30:50 +0000 http://fanonite.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/silence-of-the-lambs-hollywood-and-israel/#comment-1351 Your post made me wonder again, why would a “people” be so certain that it will be “disliked”!

Speaking of Hillary and Obama’s campaign funders … well, I am sure they sell to any one with the right money, be it Zionist or Wahabist!

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