Posted on 09/08/2009 3:32:49 PM PDT by knighthawk
In expressing my exasperation at Naomi Klein' s baffling, circuitous and slippery attempt to defend her and her cohorts' protest against Israeli films at the Toronto International Film Festival — or, if you believe her, against the way these Israeli films have been “packaged” — I neglected to follow her argument, such as it was, through to its logical and damning implications.
For those of you lucky enough not to have read her piece in The Globe and Mail, and foolish enough not to have read this morning's Full Pundit, I will summarize her reasoning: Israel did bad things in Gaza, and is trying to resuscitate its international reputation through a re-branding campaign, which doesn't help Gazans any, and threatens to let Israel off the hook for the aforementioned bad things. The package of Israeli films to be shown in Toronto may or may not be related to this re-branding exercise — this is the most equivocal part of Klein's article — but it nevertheless “matches Israel's stated propaganda goals to a T.”
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Poor Leonard. On top of all this, he’s broke.
Ya, he should stick to writing music ;^)
Leonard Cohen is out touring and making money. He is not broke though some scummy “managers” ripped him off while he was doing Zen Mediation for five years
It's a shame he has to tour at the age of 75, but his manager stole his money. It's amazing how often this happens, isn't it?
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