[Marxism] SHAME on Liam Neeson and the Academy

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 http://lefti.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html#7579652806650625897

Presenting the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars
tonight, Liam Neeson (presumably reading words written by someone else,
but still reading them) described the film Waltz with Bashir (which was widely 
expected to win, but didn't) as a film about a "controversial military action." 
Military action? The film is about a fucking massacre, the massacre of hundreds 
(possibly thousands) of Palestinian civlians in the Sabra and Chatila refugee 
camps in Lebanon by Phalangist thugs with the passive, if not active, 
participation of the misnamed Israeli "Defense" [sic] Forces.
Controversial? An Israeli government commission found Ariel Sharon personally 
responsible for the massacre.

"Controversial military action?" Are you fucking kidding me?


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