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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- ing problems in the long term." CI Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Featurewell. corn; all rights reserved. Walk On Water is scheduled to open April 1 at Landmark's Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak. Check your local movie listings. (248) 263-2111. 7SEIWIREINENIENIZEMERIMMES UP CLOSE from page 41 New Hours: 7 Days a week • 7:00 am - 3:00 pm All You Can eat Chinese. 13u 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 Open 7 days a week Mon-Sat 11 am-10 pm • Sunday 4 pm-9:30 pm 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