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| Israel-Palestine |
| An endorsement Mel Gibson didn’t need ... |
| 2004-03-20 |
| Not EFL Arafat aid compares The Passion of the Christ to current Palestinian suffering Yasser Arafat watched Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ on Saturday, and afterward a top aide compared Jesus’ pain during crucifixion to the suffering of Palestinians in the conflict with Israel. Damn you! Now I know how John Kerry must feel after scoring the endorsements of two Third World dictators and a terrorist fellater! Nabil Abu Rdeneh, one of Arafat’s closest advisers, watched the film along with the veteran Palestinian leader and a group of American and European Christians and Palestinian Muslim clerics. ’Course, Islam has its own problem with the movie ... instead of God having "love for humankind" and so sending His only begotten Son to die for our sins, their Allah shuffled "Isa" off to paradise and left a random ’bystander’ to die in his place ... and somehow people complain about the God seen in the movie. *snort* "The Palestinians are still daily being exposed to the kind of pain Jesus was exposed to during his crucifixion," Abu Rdeneh said in a statement after he viewed the movie. How many times can I debunk thee? Let me count the ways ... For the record, I won’t go back on my opinion of the movie and what it’s doing - overwhelmingly, almost unanimously positive - but wait til the media gets word of this ... P.S. Didn’t it just pass The Matrix: Reloaded as the biggest R-rated movie of all time? P.P.S. The typo in the title is from the original article. |
| Posted by:Edward Yee |
| #8 I'd like to know what OBL thought of the movie as well. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-3-20 11:19:37 PM |
| #7 just who went into the Ramallah aquarium asking who's opinion about a Christian religious movie? I'd like to know Bandar's view too, think I could get an interview? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-3-20 10:36:53 PM |
| #6 Hannukah to the birth of Jesus? About 200 years, and Masada, at least vs. the Romans, was about 70 AD. |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-3-20 10:22:31 PM |
| #5 Yasser just liked the part where the jew was tortured and then killed. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-3-20 9:50:58 PM |
| #4 The Hamas version should have Jesus strapping on a suicide bomb and... |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-3-20 9:48:25 PM |
| #3 The Masada confusion may have been caused by me. I hadn't realized the span of time between the two events. Mea culpa. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-3-20 9:43:07 PM |
| #2 Shipman: His next movie supposed to be about Massada. Word on the street sez it's gonna be called: The Jews Are Revolting. Actually, it's going to be about Hanukkah. Same title, though |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-3-20 9:24:21 PM |
| #1 His next movie supposed to be about Massada. Word on the street sez it's gonna be called: The Jews Are Revolting. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-20 8:49:28 PM |