Dreamland of the Actors: Tel Rabia and the Toronto Fillm Festival
…the Tel Rabia myth is something ginned-up to get children to despise their neighbors and not complain when they’re sent off to kill themselves in the name of reclaiming something they never had and didn’t build. Good show to the artistes now lending their names to it. I suppose everyone sees what they want to. The Arabs see an excuse not to compromise, but I wonder what the film professionals see in their minds’ eyes? Perhaps they figure Tel Rabia was some carbon-neutral wonderland, where actors and producers ruled as philosopher Kings over a multi-cultural polity that lived together in peace (except the Jews who very reasonably had to tend their neighbor’s lawns for the privilege).
Most of the recognizable signatories (50 “prominent signatories” is more than a bit of an exageration) are flatly anti-Western idiot leftists, like Danny Glover, Jane Fonda, Eve Ensler, John Pilger, Alice Walker, Howard Zinn and Naomi Klein (who is reported as a signatory but whose name doesn’t appear on the web list)…