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Enterprising Reporting:
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[Saying Goodbye]
Los Angeles
drama about Palestinian sui-
cide bombers won the
Golden Globe for best for-
eign-language film. Paradise Now, a
Palestinian-Israeli co-production, was
honored on Jan: 16 at an award cere-
mony in Los Angeles. While Paradise
Now has been taken to task for pre-
senting two suicide bombers sympa-
thetically, it has raised eyebrows
among Palestinians for criticizing the
terrorist group that sends them on
their deadly mission. The film has
had limited distribution in Israel.
The film follows the path taken by
two young Palestinians from their
decision to become suicide bombers,
until the moment they board a Tel
Aviv bus crowded with children.
.
Writes Israeli Yossi Zur:
"My son Asaf was almost 17 years
old, an 11th-grader studying comput-
er sciences, when one day after school
he boarded a bus in Israel to return
home. On the way, a suicide bomber
from Hebron, 21 years old and him-
self a computer sciences student in
the Hebron Polytechnic, also boarded
the bus and blew himself up. Of the
17 people killed, nine were school-
children aged 18 or younger. Asaf was
killed on the spot"
Zur is quoted from a statement
released via the Israel Project.
What exactly makes Paradise Now
worthy of such a prestigious award?
Zur asks. "Would the entertainment
writers who chose to honor this
movie have given the same accolades
if the film had been been about the
young men from Saudi Arabia who
moved to the U.S., took flying lessons
and then underwent Islamic ritual
preparations for their holy mission to
crash_ airplanes into the Twin Towers
and the Pentagon? Would they have
dared to give such a version of
Paradise Now a similar award?
"This movie," Zur wrote,"attempts
to deliver the message that suicide
bombings are a legitimate tactic for •
those who feel they've exhausted all
other means of resistance. But a sui-
cide-murderer who boards a bus and
snuffs out the lives of 15. or 20 inno-
cent people, or wIlo walks into a city
carrying a biological, chemical or
nuclear weapon and kills 10,000, or
even 100,000 people, is that still a
legitimate tactic? Where does one
draw the line?" Fl -
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