Fruits of the "Cedar Revolution": A Lebanonese Censor Explains Movie Censoring Policies by the US-Supported Government. Read all about it. I can't believe that there was anybody who really believed the fake "liberal" claims of some Lebanonese during the Hummus Revolution. Here, an official in the Ministry of Interior and Ping Pong explains censorship policies regarding movies showing--or not showing--in Beirut. He explains that "gay" scenes had to be shortened for Brokeback Mountain; that Spielberg's Munich will be shown in Beirut because Israeli critics disliked the movie; and that Syriana will not be shown because, well, I have to translate this one verbatim: "it is known that [the movie] talks about an alliance between politics, oil, money, and intelligence for the achievement of regional and international goals and interests. And the treatment that is presented by the movie tackles the current situation in the Middle East region, and its states, from a specific religious and political angle, where Lebanon is one of the angles. And the ban on Syriana came out of fear of exploitation by some of the content of the movie to perpetrate attacks on theatres that show it."