On video: Oppenheimer being announced as the best film of 2023/courtesy of AMPAS© 2024, yes and +STING
At the end of the week, after the drama that was broadcast from coast to coast in the USA and the whole world, we have to say honestly from the heart of Hollywood: what happened this week at the Oscars and what did not happen after it, this is Yom Kippur along with October 7th in advocacy. As if everything that happened so far was not enough
. In the protesters blocking the black limousines, tailored men and women in designer evening dresses and delicate heels, the pressure in the Kodak Hall at the appointed hour, four in the afternoon, it still had bald spots in the marked places that prevented the start of the broadcast, the descent into commercials and promos that lasted six minutes, then the panicked return to the live broadcast and dealing with The return of the latecomers without harming the live broadcast. Everything is described in live broadcasts by bloggers and news channels:
never in all its 96 years has the opening of the Oscars been delayed. Closing blocks of streets in Los Angeles with increased police forces and private security companies could not have prevented the riot, The protesters blocked the access in the second circle of the streets. A lot of anger and heart attacks in the production.
In all our years here we have not experienced a media drama that is related to Israel and is actually happening in Los Angeles.
The last period was the ground on which the narrative against Israel's war on Hamas sprouted, fueled by numbers and data with images that did not It can be refuted or confirmed: 31 thousand Palestinian dead in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, including women and children.
Right?
Not true?
only half?
And how do you explain?
Unfortunately there was a technical loss here.
Israel and its representatives did not take the field.
at all.
Outside the hall on the Avenue of the Stars there were riots, and inside there was a well-known and long-standing American regret.
You don't need an Oscar, a day of buzzing between the channels will show everything
And there was something to say: for example, why did Oppenheimer sweep all the important awards at this year's Oscars and not just him?
Because for the first time America bravely and painfully faces the black hole of its not-so-distant past: it subdued Japan and won the war with two atomic bombs that were dropped on two cities and caused the death of about a quarter of a million citizens, men, women and children, over time.
The Japanese were far from righteous and did terrible things in the war, but in today's terms the USA committed crimes against humanity, genocide. Sounds familiar.
So did the British at the end of the war when they burned Hamburg and Dresden from the air in an (unsuccessful) attempt to subdue Nazi Germany. Correct, the film also touches on the phenomenon of McCarthyism that Dr. Robert Oppenheimer suffered from even though he was a hero who brought victory.
Everything is known and yet it is not mentioned at the Oscars.
And surprisingly until this moment.
Outside the hall on the Avenue of the Stars there were riots, and inside there was a well-known and long-standing American regret.
Contemporary political correctness is the cause of their attitudes towards contemporary crises in the world.
You don't need an Oscar, a day of buzzing between the channels will show everything.
The stage of regret over Vietnam has already been experienced in many films.
In a little while, the soul-searching for two million Vietnamese who were killed in that war, and about half a million Muslims who were killed as a result of the American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, will come to the screens.
In private conversations you hear about cooking projects, and are asked your opinion as an Israeli journalist.
Everything is known and yet it is not worth mentioning. The Oscar for "Oppenheimer"/GettyImages, Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images
The address was smeared
In the West there is nothing new, just like the well-known anti-war film, there is nothing new because the anti-Israel sentiment is fresher and fuller than ever.
In recent months, the media has been exposed to a trend that could also be expected if the Jewish and Israeli communities in the US were correctly segmented: protesters block intersections and roads, including main roads, calling for a ceasefire and a complete end to the war, a free Palestine, or an end to the entire occupation. Israel and their participation.
"Jews for a Ceasefire" is one of the most active and noisy groups of all, who demonstrated together with Palestine supporters at screenings of the horror film at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The most hallucinatory phenomenon of all is Jewish LGBT people in favor of a free Palestine.
Even worse "from the river to the sea" and the pits around the sea water and some river.
The Oscar events, the preparations and the understanding that there are going to be protests, the disruptions at the opening of the ceremony, the red pins, the Jewish director Jonathan Glazer who compared Gaza to the Holocaust, that is, not really, but the mention of the two words together was enough, and not even a yellow pin for the abductees, or the mention of them and the terrible massacre that took place Israel.
Except for two Israelis who were invited to the red carpet.
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In recent months, the media has been exposed to the trend.
The disruptions at the entrance to the ceremony/Reuters, Carlin Stiehl
Even those who did a simple search on Glaser could know what his positions were.
Even now the feeling is that Israel cannot or does not want to understand the magnitude of the event
In Israel it was difficult to understand, even though it was clear that it was going to come.
The night before there were already publications that we all saw.
Even those who did a simple search on Glaser could know what his positions were.
Even now the feeling is that Israel cannot or does not want to understand the magnitude of the event.
In the US, the great media uproar forced a number of individuals and organizations to respond. In general, the reactions are divided between automatic supporters of the State of Israel in any situation, and between those who say: I am a Jew, and even a Zionist, and I have a hard time with what I see in Gaza. Yes, Blazer also talked about victims October 7, but the headline is that all of us, and our Judaism, were kidnapped by the occupation government.
Some speakers claim that the extensive Jewish community in the media and entertainment world agrees with a more complex position that it is possible to support Israel but also criticize it. Others claim the opposite. Both sides claim that under pressure from agents and managers Personals, publicists and media consultants, key Jewish people in Hollywood refrain from expressing a position at all, whether their opinion is favorable or not in everything that is happening in the war in Gaza, by the way, also in Judea and Samaria.
The veteran Jewish senator and former presidential candidate, Brandy Sanders, updated his progressive position this week: the US, i.e. the Biden administration, should limit arms shipments to Israel if it does not stop harming the civilian population in Gaza and even enter Rafah. "When I was young I volunteered in the kibbutzim, this is not Israel that I knew and loved," he adds. And now we have been informed that another senior Democratic Jew, Chuck Schumer, has turned against Netanyahu. Meanwhile, on Netanyahu alone and not on Israel's policies as a whole. The
only one, who also happens to be a Jew, who manages to reflect the complex positions and laugh at them all, is Van Stewart who conquers the screen again: his investigations bring all the relevant quotes.
turned on Netanyahu.
Schumer/Reuters
A moment after Oppenheimer and his derivatives, and with him the entire Oscar affair, experts, influencers and consultants on their own behalf, Jewish and Israeli organizations, and official representatives of the State of Israel.
Everyone was gone and the stage was deserted.
The Anti-Defamation League growled, and Noa Tashvi got really angry, especially at Steven Spielberg who didn't come out to say a kind word, but that's not his job, and not really her job.
There was no one to ask how many civilians were killed by the US attacks after 9/11, there was no one to remind the Americans how they won with the help of Oppenheimer. And it's a shame. The State of Israel and many donors fund a series of personalities and organizations that like to rub shoulders with each other at gala events out of conscience. Where are they this week
? that after the Oscars there was still silence. If this is what Israel's propaganda looks like, we lost this war.
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