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2007-11-11 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by ryuge 2007-11-11 09:12|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 7th Century Fox

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-11-11 10:39|| 2007-11-11 10:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Boomtown.

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-11 11:09|| 2007-11-11 11:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Good. More fungible funds spent on something other than bullets and rocket parts. Perhaps they could start by making a series of films about suicide bombers: but to get the lighting and the background right, use stage sets instead of, say, Israel.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-11-11 12:26|| 2007-11-11 12:26|| Front Page Top

#4 And make a bunch of pro-terrorist anti-American films? Yeah, good luck with that. Hollywood already has that market covered.

Posted by DMFD 2007-11-11 14:30|| 2007-11-11 14:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Good. More fungible funds spent on something other than bullets and rocket parts. Perhaps they could start by making a series of films about suicide bombers: but to get the lighting and the background right, use stage sets instead of, say, Israel.

You may well be incorrect on this, trailing wife. I'm tellin' youse we should not underestimate the profound influence that propagandano matter how contrived or fabricated it may behas upon high context Muslim culture. Witness the enduring anti-Semitic role played by that grand forgery, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

The indoctrination and misinformation that such a facility could spew forth might end up killing far more Jews and other civilians than the death toll brought about by a similar expenditure on conventional weapons. Just sayin'.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-11 16:29|| 2007-11-11 16:29|| Front Page Top

#6 awesome! a $44,000 "computer generated" (Nahoul the) Bee Movie

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-11 17:09|| 2007-11-11 17:09|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm incorrect on a great many things, Zenster. My information is incomplete, my memory porous, and my understanding of human nature is skewed toward nice people. But I do the best I can with what I have, and await the final proof or disproof of events.

I'm kind of fatalistic about anti-Israel/antisemitic propaganda nowadays. The current level of hate is mostly based on lies. They already believe Jews bake babies' blood into Passover matzah and poison wells, are genocidaires... and are evil incarnate who must all be killed, all 18 million of us. How much worse can it get, really?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-11-11 18:05|| 2007-11-11 18:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Gazawood or Paleowood?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-11-11 18:06|| 2007-11-11 18:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Propagandas importance in high context Muslim culture could be code 4.

Posted by Zenobia Ebbusonter4289 2007-11-11 18:53|| 2007-11-11 18:53|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm kind of fatalistic about anti-Israel/antisemitic propaganda nowadays. The current level of hate is mostly based on lies. They already believe Jews bake babies' blood into Passover matzah and poison wells, are genocidaires... and are evil incarnate who must all be killed, all 18 million of us. How much worse can it get, really?

While I definitely dispute your own self-assessment, I do believe that things can get a lot worse. Remember the old saying, "Before things get worse, they have to get a whole lot worse."

Imagine these genocidal bastards with sophisticated computer graphics at their disposal in order to create faked "atrocities" that incite further terrorist reprisals. I know they already do this in print, but within quasi-literate and ill-informed high context societies like much of the MME (Muslim Middle East), such slickly produced disinformation could have a substantially negative impact.

Look at how Iran is able to puff up national pride by Photoshopping the demolition of an Australian naval vessel. Muslims are nothing if not gullible and the upshot of truly vile fanatics like Hamas having access to advanced video or film production facilities bodes not at all well. That's why I advocate Israel blasting it straight to hell on opening night (or maybe a few weeks later after all the equipment has been installed).

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-11 18:59|| 2007-11-11 18:59|| Front Page Top

#11 That AFP "news" film of the 10-year old Palestinian boy who was supposedly shot point blank by Israeli soldiers in the middle of a shoot out with Palestinian gunmen was made a few years ago. Last I heard they were in court refusing to turn over the original film, because it showed the AFP camera men and the father staging the scene, and the boy walking away after. One of the French television stations based a special on it that was shown in repeats several times in France alone, as well as referenced around the world. The newest blood libel, and they didn't need any computers to do it. All sorts of things are already on You Tube. New stories won't add to the hate, just the novelty.

But thank you for the sweet complement.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-11-11 20:30|| 2007-11-11 20:30|| Front Page Top

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