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If you have driven to Jerusalem, you may have noticed a number of rusted metal hulks by the road as you pass through the Judean hills. These are the remains of homemade armored supply trucks, left where they were destroyed, to serve as memorials to the convoys that forced their way through Arab blockades to feed the 100,000 Jews of Jerusalem during the siege of 1947-48. But if you saw the new film “Miral,” you would be led to believe that those wrecks don’t exist — because the siege never happened. Jewish-born director Julian Schnabel and Palestinian screenwriter Rula Jebreal,...

ANTI-ISRAEL HOLLYWOODMarch, 2011 Israeli anger over Palestinian film at UN Miral Palestine Oil the producer defended (on CNN, March 30, 2011) the Palestinian propaganda movie after being asked about the criticism that it portrays Israeli forces as the villain and not telling the Israeli side of the story as well, The producer responded the weirdest answer I have ever heard: "this is a Palestinian story, when Martin Scorcese makes a film about an Italian gangster he doesn't tell the story of a Jewish gangster." What an "apples & oranges" answer. Of course Martin Scorsese won’t tell an unrelated story about...