[lbo-talk] The Intifada in Roger & Me

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>[lbo-talk] Double Standard: Israel and Saudi Arabia
>Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com, Mon Jul 12 13:18:29 PDT 2004
<snip>
>  >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>
>>Chris Brooke wrote:
>>
>>>According to Gary Younge in the Guardian, it's Dude, Where's My Country?
>>>
>>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/michaelmoore/story/0,13947,1055591,00.html
>>
>>Three relevant paragraphs from which...
>>
>>>A little bit later, he comes back to the question of his own volition. "I
>>>think it's a good point, because, as much as I think I've done, I haven't
>>>done enough. I feel that one of the big flaws in Bowling For Columbine is
>>>that I go through the history of American violence around the world and
>>>completely miss out what we've done in the Middle East when it comes to
>>>the Israelis and the Palestinians."
>
><Insert meaningless intensifier of your choice>!  That just makes 
>Moore's  refusal to examine the Israeli connection in F911 that much 
>more egregious.
>
>Carl

What's interesting is that Michael Moore included an image of 
Palestinians in a film for which the question of the Israeli 
occupation is the least relevant among his feature-length works: 
<em>Roger and Me</em>.  As the credits roll, Moore revisits the major 
interviewees in the film to poke fun at their cluelessness one more 
time.  The third figure is Maxine Kronick, a Flint official who tried 
and failed to make downtown Flint "the entertainment center of the 
area" like Toronto (!) earlier in the film.  Moore (off camera) asks 
Maxine: "Where are you going to?"  Maxine happily replies: "I'm going 
to Tel Aviv."  Moore asks again: "Why?"  Maxine, beaming, jokes: 
"Well, maybe, someday I'll be the minister of tourism."  Then, the 
film cuts to a scene of Palestinian youths throwing rocks at IDF 
soldiers, as the subtile reads "One month after Maxine arrived. . . ".
-- 
Yoshie

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