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He believes that there is a growing
majority in Israel that believes the
old way is not working, and peace
requires a new approach.
"We realize that maybe the army's
and Mossad's old ways don't neces-
sarily solve problems. You kill one
Bin Laden, and there'll be another.
You kill one terrorist and his son
will say, 'You bad Israelis — you
killed my father. I'll kill you. I'll
explode myself in the middle of Tel
Aviv.'
"That's not a way, I think, of solv-
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port, the cab driver said, 'Why are
you going to France? They are all
anti-Semitic. They won't like your
film.'"
I told him, 'Maybe that's a better
reason to go there and talk to them
about Israel.'"
The trip, Fox says, was worth the
effort. "At firs, they were asking,
`Why don't you bring the Palestine
issue to the front.' But the film is
doing wonderfully in France; people
are reacting beautifully; reviews were
nice. I thought they would be much
more aggressive toward us Israelis."
Fox's movies underline many
truths in 21st-century Israeli life,
and he says he'll continue to shoot
pictures that offer a critical if sym-
pathetic view of life in the Promised
Land.
He believes the West has to get
over its fear of Islam in order to
begin the process of understanding
and finding the good people among
that faith to communicate with.
"[The West] says, All of them are
bad; they're villains and monsters,'
and on that depends our fear and

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thinking," says Fox, who resembles
Ocean's Eleven director Steven
Soderbergh with his micro-short hair
and black glasses.
"Everyone realizes that attitudes have
to chancre. otherwise, it's become
impossible and unbearable to go on
living this way. We're not victims any-
more. We have to check ourselves and
change the way we behave with the
world."
Fox was born in New York and grew
up in Israel. His mother — an old le fty
whose mantra was "everything is politi-
cal" — was a city planner in charge of
developing Arab neighborhoods and
villages in east Jerusalem.
Although he was devoted to her, Fox
refused to adopt her fears as his own.
But you can imagine his shock when
the director called to check on her
health while shooting Milk On Water
in Berlin. "Why are you in Germany?"
she asked. "Germany is the enemy."
She was a little confused, Fox recalls
during a recent visit to the United
States, so he just laughed and said,
"Mom, I'll be back in a week."
She died that afternoon, and he is
still trying to reconcile her politics and
work with her last words — the words,
he believes, of a frightened Jewish

immigrant girl in America hearing
rumors about the war in Europe.
Fox's mother hasn't been the only
one to voice irrational objections to the
film. An audience member at a screen-
ing in Los Angeles angrily asked, "Why
are you using Christian symbolism?
You could have used a different story,
such as Moses parting the Red Sea."
Fox's face darkens. "You're not sup-
posed to import or love something
which is Christian? Why not? You're
missing the point of the film, maybe."
Walk on Water uses the story of Jesus
at Galilee as a metaphor for shedding
sins and adopting a new identity.
"It's not only a Christian idea, puri-
fying yourself and making yourself a
better person, and when you're a better
person, you're stronger," says Fox, cit-
ing the rnikvah.
It says a lot about the filmmaker that
he conceived of a movie about trans-
formation at the height of the suicide
bombings.
"If I had to be more truthful to my
mother's vision of the world," Fox
muses, "I might have made the ending
not as sweet and hopeful and opti-
mistic, because she was not as big a
dreamer as I am." Ei