Rula Jebreal

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Rula Jebreal on the film 'Miral'

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    1. JohnGelles  09/03/2011 10:06 AM Report

      Sorry for too may typos below. I spoke by phone with one of my fellow contributors of these comments on the matter of typos. He had good advice for me. Take more time and SEND fewer typos. Charlie will not allow post-send editing until the Middle East finds the peace Miral seeks.

    2. JohnGelles  09/03/2011 09:58 AM Report

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miral

      I watched this interview on my computer -- somehow I missed the TV showing. The Wikipedia link above tells what I believe is a fair short account of what some day may be a landmark film on the path to peace. The Wikipedia impression on me was strong -- I could feel the reluctance of people at war to think peace was possible.

      When the war against Japan was just over, I was a young naval officer on an LST repatriating Japanese civilians from China duty as Japanese invading civilian components and a few Japanese military officers (over several trips back and forth over several months).

      On one trip we carried a Canadian Japanese officer whose family had returned to Japan before Pearl Harbor. The Canadian spoke perfect English and seemed to us to be exactly the SAME as OURSELVES only he had been fighting on the other side.

      He ate with us and was not treated at all like any of the others Japanese on board. (He was on this trip the only military person we were carrying. We had more than a thousand other Japanese men, women and youngsters who were treated well but en masse with no real contact with our crew of nine officers and 90 enlisted men)

      My point is that this Japanese immediately became one of US not one of THEM.

      The situation was radically different from "Miral" because the Canadian raised Japanese officer reverted to one of us. In Miral with have Palestinians and Israelis who will not revert to what they never were.

      EXCEPT -- both sides will revert to human beings.

      Rula Jebreal and our American Jewish painter film maker are magnificent human beings and artists trying to bring peace to a war. We can side with them in the long run. In the short run we can see that many critics see the movie in very narrow terms: do they wish that they were a part of it or NOT? Do they want to nit-pick its quality as a movie NOT a cry for peace?

      I have not seen the movie. The two who wrote and made it are very appealing to a Charlie Rose audience. I pray they will achieve their aims sooner rather than later.

      In the end we will have peace and equality between the warring factions of today OR we will likely all be at war or already dead because the Middle East exploded the rest of planet earth. Charlie's audience votes for peace. But to achieve it may take a war that ends with victory by a democratic armed force that embraces humanitarian values.

    3. wiliki  09/03/2011 02:08 AM Report

      This link seems broken. Looks like it's that same as an older link. What's going on?