Posted on 09/04/2009 2:51:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway
HOLLYWOOD studios love to use the Toronto Film Festival...
In an online letter to event chiefs, an array of notables -- Jane Fonda, Naomi Klein, Danny Glover and David Byrne among them -- have protested the festival's choice to spotlight the city of Tel Aviv and 10 Israeli moviemakers.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
> How much is she worth?
To Jesus, His life.
She’s had a lot of work done - I hardly recognize her.
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Of course they're protesting, Tel Aviv having been founded on the ruins of expelled palestinian's homes. Evidence to the contrary being propaganda.
Excellent post!
What is the story with this picture?
That is a picture of the group of Jews gathering for the groundbreaking for the first structures that grew and is today Tel Aviv.
Jane Fonda, Naomi Klein, Danny Glover and David Byrne/// have protested the festival's choice to spotlight the city of Tel Aviv and 10 Israeli moviemakers.
Mark Twain visited Israel in 1867, and published his impressions in Innocents Abroad. He described a desolate country – devoid of both vegetation and human population:
“….. A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.”
He was amazed by the smallness of the city of Jerusalem:
“A fast walker could go outside the walls of Jerusalem and walk entirely around the city in an hour. I do not know how else to make one understand how small it is.”
And he described the Temple Mount thus:
“The mighty Mosque of Omar, and the paved court around it, occupy a fourth part of Jerusalem. They are upon Mount Moriah, where King Solomon’s Temple stood. This Mosque is the holiest place the Mohammedan knows, outside of Mecca. Up to within a year or two past, no christian could gain admission to it or its court for love or money. But the prohibition has been removed, and we entered freely for bucksheesh.”
Compare the above picture with a more recent one of Tel Aviv. In size and architecture, the city looks a lot like Miami, FL.
Y-you mean, Israelis make good films? You must be a z-zionist (gasp!)
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