I always despised liberal and “leftist” Zionists as much as I despise revisionist Zionists. A liberal Zionist is a typical Zionist: but he is characterized with more moral pretentions. The movie Lebanon does not deviate from the Israeli propaganda trash. It is the same set of clichés. I don’t understand why there was acclaim for this tedious movie. We have seen that before: that Israeli war criminals are often guilty about their killings sprees and massacres. This is the message that Israeli liberals and leftists want us to believe: that there is a few Israeli terrorist soldiers who sometimes feel bad about the massacres they perpetrate against Arabs. In reality, there is no such evidence at all. The rate of desertion in the Israeli terrorist army is very low indeed. It seems that Israelis perpetrate war crimes and atrocities with relish. In fact, I think that Israeli soldiers are very much like SS in Nazi Germany: in that they go beyond the orders to derive pleasure from extra massacres and war crimes. The film is tedious and annoying and shows an obsession with urine: it must be Zionist thing. Typically, Arabs don’t exist as human beings in the movie. There is a Syrian soldier: and he only screams and moans (he is played by an Israeli actor). And there are the two Phalange militia men: they are shown as brutal: in fact, one of the most brutal scenes in the movie is when one of the Phalanges threatens in horrific language the Syrian soldier. You are supposed to conclude that Israelis are too humane to do that. Left unmentioned in the movie is that those very savage Phalanges were trained by the Israeli army itself. The Syrian soldier was shown to be seeking the mercy of the Israeli army. Total propaganda stuff that you expect from media advocacy for Israeli war crimes. The Israeli war criminals are typically humanized: we see them talk about their families and about their mothers and such. The message? Unlike Arabs, Israeli killers are human being who have second thoughts about their killings. Oh, yeah. We did not see any mercy or second thoughts in the various successive invasions and aggression from Israel in Lebanon over the decades. I was in South Lebanon during the Israeli invasion and occupation of 1982: I did not see any evidence that the terrorist occupiers were doing their killing job with any hesitation. They seemed to be deriving pleasure. At one point in the movie, they let a child walk away. That is such bullshit: I have seen scores of children being taken by Israeli soldiers and I heard first hand their accounts about torture by Israeli occupiers and seen the bruises on them when they returned. Just read the last report of B’tselem. The movie also shows a scene when a Palestinian fighter takes civilian hostages: this was such a fabrication. I never ever heard that Palestinian fighters in 1982 ever took civilian hostages. It does not make sense. Why would they do that? Like the lives of Arab civilians is so precious for Israelis and Palestinians resorted to hostage taking to deter Israeli aggression against them? Such an invention. And notice that the only brutal Israeli officer (or soldier) in the movie is named Jamil: implying that he was Druze. As if Arabs who are allowed into the Israeli terrorist Army easily reach command positions (Druzes are allowed to serve in the Israeli terrorist army, and Bedouins and South Lebanon Army war criminals are allowed to). And like every Israeli movie of its kind, there is a lot of Israeli male bonding going on, and a celebration of the male figure. Women are marginal and sexistly talked about. The only Arab women in the movie, are stripped naked for no reason or explanation whatsoever. I guess this was titillating for a culture predicated on sexual Orientalism. The viewer is supposed to watch the movie and feel sorry for those hesitant Israeli terrorists. I watched the movie (and of course, Farah and I did not pay a penny to benefit the Israeli film industry) and only felt contempt and detestation for those terrorists.