This is why the film by the silly Lebanese director got nominated for the Academy Awards: no mystery there

" "Three years ago, while I was watering my plants, I got in a fight with a Palestinian guy because the water was falling on him. And I told him, 'You know, [former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon should have wiped you all out.'"  Can you imagine if he were to say that about, say, Jewish people? Or blacks? Would he still be nominated and would he still be bragging about his bigotry?