Sacha Baron Cohen loves to mock all things Arab and Muslim. All three of his most popular movies have gone out of their way to vilify Arabs and Muslims. Now, as brave men and women in the Arab world courageously and resiliently face down the despots that have beaten and killed them, Baron Cohen portrays a dictator. Not only is the movie horribly ill-timed, but it stands as a testament to his horrid disdain for Arabs and Muslims.
In Bruno, he interviews a Palestinian and labels him a terrorist. That Palestinian is Ayman Abu Aita, a non-profit worker who would later sue Baron Cohen in the district of Columbia two years ago. Exactly what a show about a gay model has to do with Palestine is beyond me. Borat in its entirety is about a journalist from a Muslim republic who does crazy stunts and shows a great deal of ignorance and resentment toward Israel–it feels forced.
Now comes Baron Cohen’s third movie, The Dictator, which centers around the stereotypical caricature of an Arab/Muslim leader designed to make the entire Arab world and Muslim faith look bad. The very premise of the movie is offensive. It trivializes the senseless torture, imprisonment, and murder of civilians when death is never funny. In my conversations with Libyans and Iraqis, not one has ever told me that the deaths of their family members under the rule of their respective despots and dictators was funny.
It seems that Baron Cohen also makes the point that only mad dictators would resent Israel. Really? Try telling that to the dozen European countries who have been voicing their concerns with Israel’s occupation and land grab. While the movie has not yet been released, from the many clips and trailers available online, it’s hard to conclude that it will have anything nice to say about Muslims and Arabs.
Coming from an observant Jewish family, Baron Cohen is a partisan for the Israeli cause. He is a graduate of the London-based comedy group Habonim, which describes itself as “a Socialist Zionist Culturally Jewish youth movement”.
Baron Cohen makes movies in America in a way that reminds me of Israeli TV shows. When television programs in Israel feature an Arab character, he or she is always a stereotypical, dumbed-down version of the real thing. Why has no one called Baron Cohen out on his racism yet? Does it matter that in his three movies, not a single positive Muslim character is portrayed? I do not think his brand of racism is particularly popular since Hollywood studios have mostly abandoned it.
Baron Cohen should not be immune to criticism when he deliberately wages an assault on entire cultures and religions to serve his own agenda. He invents characters and uses them as a mouthpiece for his views on entire groups of people. Indeed, he has run into trouble because of racist or prejudiced comments his characters have made.
Per his Wikipedia page
Regarding his portrayal as the anti-Semitic Borat, Baron Cohen says the segments are a “dramatic demonstration of how racism feeds on dumb conformity, as much as rabid bigotry”, rather than a display of racism by Baron Cohen himself.[35] “Borat essentially works as a tool. By himself being anti-Semitic, he lets people lower their guard and expose their own prejudice”, Baron Cohen explains.[9]
I’m sure when the topic of his support for Israel and its illegal occupation of Palestinian land comes up, he probably replies, “I am not engaged in those discussions.” Fair enough, but why does so much of his work focus on making Arabs and Muslims look despicable? An analyst from Bitterlemons.org, who was duped by one of Bruno’s pranks, had this to say about him: “He is exploiting our tragic and painful conflict in the most cynical and deceptive manner. I doubt he’ll give us anything in return.” Baron Cohen cannot just punch one guy, smile in the face of another, and then look at the camera and say ‘I am not taking sides.’
Take this example, Cohen found enough time to slam the protest over the Toronto Film festival for its Tel Aviv event. Even celebrated Israeli filmmakers protested the ‘celebration of occupation.’ as a multi-million dollar propaganda campaign on behalf of Israel but Sacha begs to differ.
Even a Palestinian American journalist –whose wife happens to be Jewish took issues with Sacha’s characters in his op-ed “Sacha Baron Cohen’s antics – good or bad?”. To the best of my knowledge no Arab or Muslim has ever been consulted in the making of these movies movies. This means Sacha’s action suggest, “Yo, Arabs and Muslims, Let me teach you about yourself”
Cohen’s movies clearly propagate stereotypes against Arabs and Muslims that increase western ignorance and subsequently animosity, specifically benefiting Israel. The marketing of his movies often target a segment of society with low IQ (which may have racist proclivities of their own) with this type of overgrown juvenile humor.
I have yet to see one Baron Cohen movie that picks on someone other than Arabs and Muslims. Sure he did a decent acting job in both Hugo and Sweeney Todd (good movie by the way), but it seems that any movie in which he stars, writes, and produces will do nothing more than advance stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims. He wins when his movies make a killing, but also when he sees his political agenda creep into the mainstream American discussion.
Baron Cohen’s big thing is Holocaust awareness, a worthy cause indeed. But neither Arabs nor Muslims had anything to do with it, so how is he achieving his goal by making Islam the butt of each of his jokes? Baron Cohen is free to think what he wants and make any movie he likes to make, but he is not free to claim he is impartial to the conflict. This issue is akin to a white actor in blackface for many in the Arab and Muslim communities. Can you imagine an Arab actor lampooning a Jewish character in a mainstream movie? What if that actor had made questionable statements in the past about the Jewish people? Not in a million years would a movie like that see the light of day.
All I ask is that Baron Cohen be labeled accurately based on his well established distaste for Arabs. Habonim Dror, Baron Cohen’s former “Jewish cultural youth movement” includes as one of its ideals “fixing the world.” It’s hard to see how systematically using Arabs as punchlines will achieve that end.
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Yes…Considering "Borat", I would expand upon your observation and add that Mr. Cohen loves making fun of all things Persian and Middle Eastern, not just Arab and Muslim. FUNTABULOUSLY written and reviewed! Thank you!
Posted by pitapolicy | May 22, 2012, 8:02 amVery entertaining. You should add more information for us readers. Keep up the good work.
Posted by napa face lift | October 19, 2012, 8:45 amMuslims are always portrayed as terrorists, cruel or tyrants in western Media whether it be electronic media or film industry.
Posted by Bint | May 22, 2012, 8:41 amagreee and there also many movies of hollywood which has been against soviet union i.e. russia..
they have used their media against this part of world…
Posted by azhar | May 27, 2012, 4:32 pmYou guys are so stupid really ?!
Before even starting to researh the plot in this movie, u start complaning about the that he is playing a fictional muslim character, without even trying to find out what the true meaning of this movie is. Like all Sashas movies, all are metaphors, undirected tellings, hidden message. in the Dictator, Sasha makes fun of the muslims people, but this time it is not truely as much as how much he is making fun of USA, and in this movie, he is actually bitching so bad about how USA is such a ridiculous country. how shitty their people are being scared of socialism than total Dictator ship..
in borat and in bruno, he makes fun of the americans too.. in borat, its about how people in usa reacts to an arab with a different culture, and in bruno he shows how much americans would do, to get a chance of tasting fame – remember the kids, that bruno auditioned and the parents just accepted his crazy comments?
U guys think he is making fun of arabs, persian, middle eastern people??
- well then you got to see these movies with a open mind. 2/3 of the comments here are stupid.. u guys obviously only think about, what he is wearing, how he looks, the way he talk and act.. a true film analyzer would know that he does this to show how fucked a country like usa buy using an arab character as a method, since US and other countries are so much sure that they are better than Middle eastern peeps, when in reality, he bets the differ, and showing them how they are in an arabs eyes… people are just very blind these days.. arabs see's this as a discrimination and americans see's this as fun, when truely it should be the other way around
a side fact: he doesnt only mock USA as a country, but mock overpowerness like DICTATORS. like am i and @Seagall the only one who see's this.
the guy is riskin his freakin life to show how stupid the world is, and u guys are talkin about how much he is hating and mocking the middle eastern peeps?!!
if i really could do such a thing, i would show a detailed axplanation to all the messages sasha is trying to send, but thats the sickest thing, there are so many!! and what sickens me, to many of you are to blind to even notice 3-4 of the 100's of messages he is trying to tell.. and i mean his true messages, not the obvious "for fun and comedy" messages – life the jew and gypsy messages in borat or the "kill the cow" in Dictator
Posted by Timothy D. | September 3, 2012, 11:05 pmDoesn't change the fact that:
1) the movie sucks
2) Cohen is a crappy actor
3) Its a racist movie
4) but then again it makes fun of non-jeoooz so that's ok, but if it was making fun of jooooz….hoho…it's "anti-semitic!" Fire the Director! Demand he issue an apology!! Get the ADL on the phone! Where's Abraham Foxman? Oh wait, he said the movie sucks and is racist too. Nevermind.
5) If there was no "Arab Spring." Do you really think he would have made "The Dicktaker?" Oh sorry…freudian slip…I meant "The Dictator?" Of course not. So not only is he a crappy actor acting in a crappy racist movie but he's also a crappy opportunistic actor trying to cash in on the suffering of others by acting in a crappy racist movie.
6) You actually paid money to see this movie? let me guess…you're also the only person who bought the Scary Movie anthology on DVD, huh?
7) Rest assured no one is talking about Peeps. Hell, it's not even Easter yet! Oh those small cutesy wutesy baby marshmallow bunnies…I could just eat 'em alive!! Oh sorry…the fatty in me got distracted.
Posted by Joozarefromjoopitur | September 4, 2012, 3:59 amhe's a jew. that's what they do. that's why they exist. that's how they exist.
low grade, toilet grade "humor" and hate.
Posted by 5ds | May 22, 2012, 1:38 pmHanitizer, You make several false statements:
1. "Sacha Baron Cohen loves to mock all things Arab and Muslim."
Actually he mock haters and racists, which is what Arab dictators are. The sad truth is that Arab dictators like Gaddafi, Assad, Saddam and Arafat are so insane, that it's really hard to mock them for that, and yet even Arabs have mocked them.
2. "the movie horribly ill-timed"
The movie is extremely rightly timed because people in the west can finally see Arab dictators for what they are. Up to the past year TV news networks and politicians could ignore the horror in Arab states, but now with camera phone they can no longer treat Assad, or any other dictators as "moderate" or "reformer".
3. "he interviews a Palestinian and labels him a terrorist"
Ayman Abu Aitahe admitted he was a member of the Martyrs’ Brigades, a PLO terrorists group, which blew up Jewish children in buses and restaurants.
4. "designed to make the entire Arab world and Muslim faith look bad"
Actually it is designed to mock Arab dictators and to show how cruel they are. The fact that you are offended by mockery of cruel Arab dictators reminds me of Arab members of Knesset who defend Hamas and praised Assad and Gaddafi. It also reminds me that the majority of Syrians support Assad.
5. "When television programs in Israel feature an Arab character, he or she is always a stereotypical, dumbed-down version of the real thing."
Israeli TV has Arab TV hosts and Arab actors, have you watched Arab Palestinian TV? Have you seen what kind of Jewish characters they have? And the blood libels they promote?
6. “He is exploiting our tragic and painful conflict in the most cynical and deceptive manner."
That sounds like what Arab dictators did in 48 and 67, creating a "Nakba" and keeping the Palestinian refugees in camps, cynically exploiting them and deceiving them. Arab dictatorships killed more Arabs and Palestinians than the wars on Israel, and yet all that matters to you , like a typical Arab dictators is to point the finger at one small Jewish state. Sacha is mocking such Arab on Arab cruel and cynically behavior.
7. "Even a Palestinian American journalist –whose wife happens to be Jewish"
You found an Arab who married a Jew woman who agrees with you? You couldn't find a Jew?
Can you find an Arab woman who is married to a Jew man in any Arab state? No? Surely they can't be such racists that they would forbid their daughters from marring a Jew man.
8. "I have yet to see one Baron Cohen movie that picks on someone other than Arabs and Muslims."
I'm pretty sure Borat and Bruno mocked Americans and Europeans and I'm pretty sure he mocks Americans in The Dictator as well.
9. "Cohen’s big thing is Holocaust awareness, a worthy cause indeed. But neither Arabs nor Muslims had anything to do with"
Most Arabs during World War 2 sided with the Germans (The Nazis).
The first Arab Muslim Palestinian leader met with Hitler in 1941 and supported the extermination of Jews: http://youtu.be/m_p4B0vN488
10. "Can you imagine an Arab actor lampooning a Jewish character in a mainstream movie?"
You should Google MEMRI and see clips from mainstream Arab TV, Palestinian TV, stations and Turkish films.
11. "“fixing the world.” It’s hard to see how systematically using Arabs as punchlines will achieve that end."
The western world treated Arab dictators with great respect for decades, how did that help Arabs suffering in these regimes?
Mocking and exposing Arab dictators actually helps Arabs achieve freedom.
I'd like to know how Arabs help “fixing the world"? Polls conducted after 9/11 showed the majority of Arabs supported Osama Bin Laden. They need a lot of fixin.
Posted by Seagall | May 22, 2012, 5:27 pmI am hardly the first person to point to this racist movie maker, read (Is The Dictator Racist?) http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/17/… there are so many other articles that make the same point, everything else you said is outdated and debunked talking points I neither have the interest nor the time to argue with you
Posted by Hanitizer | May 23, 2012, 10:18 amThis film footage of the first Arab Muslim Palestinian leader meeting with Hitler in 1941 who supported the extermination of Jews: http://youtu.be/m_p4B0vN488 is outdated? You mentioned the Holocaust.
Your biggest lie is that "neither Arabs nor Muslims had anything to do" with the extermination of Jews.
You are clearly debunked!
Posted by Seagall | May 23, 2012, 10:42 amI suppose then you might want to read this book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military" Amazon has it for sale http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Des…. By your theory these Jewish soldiers also supported the extermination of Jews as well, which is just about as ridiculous as your own assertions.
Posted by Hanitizer | May 23, 2012, 11:24 amWatch the footage of the first Palestinian leader Haj Amin, uncle of Arafat, meeting with Hitler and tell me it's an "assertion". http://youtu.be/m_p4B0vN488
Posted by Seagall | May 23, 2012, 12:32 pmThe Bryan Mark Rigg's book you cite, "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" documents people of partial Jewish ancestry (in most cases they were completely unaware of their own Jewish background) who were conscripted into the Nazi army. In no cases were these people who were serving openly as Jews in the Nazi army, but rather they were people who either (A) hid the fact that they had a Jewish grandparent and lived in fear of their Jewish background being discovered (B) were unaware of their own partial Jewish ancestry or (C) in a few extremely rare cases, they were aware and Nazi officials were aware but the Nazis agreed that their services were so valuable to the Reich, that the Nazis basically "cleaned up" their record and effectively "de-Jewed" them. Again, none served the Nazis openly as Jews. Not one. This is quite different from one of the main Palestinian Arab political leaders, who commanded a substantial following, meeting openly with Hitler and pledging his support and the support of his people to the Nazi cause, recruiting a Muslim SS Unit and remaining as Hitler's guest for much of WW2.
Posted by MikeBenYossef | September 30, 2012, 9:32 am“Ayman Abu Aitahe admitted he was a member of the Martyrs’ Brigades, a PLO terrorists group, which blew up Jewish children in buses and restaurants.”
Where exactly did he do that? Do you have proof or are you just pulling things out of your ass?
Posted by freja | May 25, 2012, 6:55 amfreja, is Ayman Abu Aita a real TERRORIST? YES! but probably not a "mastermind".
"While Abu Aita did serve two years in prison in Israel for his role at a Fatah leader during the second Palestinian uprising, he dismissed Baron Cohen's depiction of him as a nefarious terrorist mastermind.
Although several Palestinian activists identified Abu Aita as a member of al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, he said he'd never been part of the militant group that the United States and Israel classify as a terrorist organization.
Newspaper stories from 2002, however, identify him as a local al Aqsa leader at a time when the group was stepping up its suicide bombings of Israeli targets.
"Don't look at us as angels," Abu Aita told The Boston Globe in 2002 before he was imprisoned. "As long as there is occupation, there will be resistance."
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/07/16/71988/pales…
Posted by Mr. Seagall | May 29, 2012, 3:31 amLie # 3: The PLO terrorists group? Give me a break!
The real terrorist is your apartheied, racist and land theif state of Israel.
Every pull has been conducted worldwide has picked Israel not the PLO as threat to world piece.
The Palestine Liberation Organization is the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people in Palestine, refugee camps, and worldwide. The PLO has been recognized by more countries around the world than your shithole-state of Israel.
The PLO does not kill Jewish children and harvest their organs and sell it on the black market. Israel does.
During the Civil War in Lebanon, the PLO did guard and protected the Jewish and American diplomatic community in Beirut.
President Carter the, did send a cable to Yassir Arafat recognizing that fact.
When the US embassy was taken over in Tehran back in 1979, and US citizens were held hostates for 444 days, it was through the effort of the PLO that Iran ordered the immediate release of all children, women and black US citizens. No thanks to Israel!
Posted by Mahmoud El-Yousseph | May 28, 2012, 7:29 pmThe PLO is a terrorist organization, Abbas has said he was against Arafat's use of terror, which is why the Americans pressured the PLO to replace Arafat with Abbas. These are facts, not polls.
Posted by Mr. Seagall | May 29, 2012, 3:00 amWhat, as opposed to Irgun, Haganah, Yesha, etc? Zionists veritably INVENTED the modern car bomb. You guys are a whole nation of terrorists. Just ask any Europeans who had their lives put at risk by Operation Wrath of God.
Posted by Anonymouse | May 31, 2012, 9:03 amWe can compare the number of people killed by Arab terrorists and by Jewish organizations.
Do you want to do that?
We can also compare the number of people killed by Arab and Muslim states: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pag…
Posted by Mr. Seagall | June 1, 2012, 5:37 amYes, let's compare numbers.
http://ifamericansknew.org.
Posted by Anonymouse | June 1, 2012, 9:24 am@Seagull If you are going to try and justify how this movie is "rightly timed" then I think there should be a movie this successful that should show the massacres that Israelis commit on a daily basis to Palestinians and other Muslims. But no that will never happen because the western media hides the whole truth. And you really think Israel has good "dictators" lol. thats the best joke i have read in any blog. Do a little research on the leaders of Israel then comment on this.
Posted by Flames12 | August 23, 2012, 12:43 am"Assad, Saddam and Arafat are so insane"
lets say your list is short…. ahh no not short it is exact this is the list of dictators that USA/Isreal doesnt apperciate much
but Mubarak .. ben ali.. and even the set of Zero headed of gulf + Mohamed 6 are the best leaders in the world….
for god sake your a complete fact or just shut up and stop killing us with your lie……
Posted by Laugh_OR_Leave | January 25, 2013, 7:07 pmuse a complete*
Posted by Laugh_OR_Leave | January 25, 2013, 7:07 pma) he’s a jew and they think they are superior to everyone due to their being the original racists on the planet (ie the chosen people). Apparently God loves them alone and hates all the black, white, Asian, Arab, Latino and oriental people. And they do seriously actually truly believe that!
b) They were the main movers and shakers in the slave trade to Africa, as the trade ships were theirs. But they like making films like Django where the white people were the slave traders alone and no one else especially the jew had nothing to do with it.
When I grew up in the 80s I used to dislike blacks as all I read or saw or them was about mugging, raping, drug dealing etc. that was later blamed on evil white prejudice. But honestly, if you write story after story about a group of people who the majority know little about are you surprised that they believe it and start to hate this group of trouble makers. Now who owed the newspapers that printed all that stuff if not the jews. It is either a fact or it is not right?
Whenever films are made about Mexicans they were always dirty and stupid. Made by white people or made by Jews who later blamed white people?
This could go on and on with portrayals of Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Arabs etc in films and newspapers etc made/printed in the west. Who owed these forms of media and who later took the blame?
Divide and conquer is the key. Django and Aladeen are tools to put each other at each others throats while they laugh. If you understand the Jew character you would know that.
Remember, these people did a holocaust on the Germans after WW2 (1.5million killed) while the holocaust the Germans are accused is a total lie. They caused a holocaust in Russia (100 million Christian Russians), the katyn massacre of the polish (kjv), the genocide of the Armenians (blamed on Turks but the krypton jews led by Attaturk and Talat Pasha of the OCP had already taken over the empire by 1907), and the ongoing slaughter of the Palestinians. Apparently the Jews played a major hand in the treatment dealt out to the American Indians but my knowledge of that is slight.
Notice they never make a film about themselves in such insulting degrading light as was pointed out by Marlon Brando.
Posted by Bob | April 25, 2013, 2:49 pm@ Seagall, If Hanitizer made several false statement, as you stated, you, yourself, have told 11lies on this message board. You sounds like a mouthpiece for the Israeli Foreign Ministry. I will get to your other 10 lies in later time.
For now, lets take lie # 7 for example. You asked if there were ever an Arab woman who married a Jew? then you answered you own question with, "No." For you information, that is false and midleading. Adam Shapiro is Jewish who is married to a Palestinian, Huwaida Arraf.
Posted by Mahmoud El-Yousseph | May 23, 2012, 12:04 amI wrote "Can you find an Arab woman who is married to a Jew man in any Arab state?"
I didn't write "if there were ever". Shapiro and Arraf married in the US not in an Arab state.
Posted by Seagall | May 23, 2012, 2:42 amNever mind, you know, that it's illegal for Jews and non-Jews to marry in Israel, but THAT'S not something that Cohen's ever going to lampoon, right?
Posted by Anonymouse | May 31, 2012, 1:19 pmillegal ? The Arab custom of honor killing is illegal, not intermarriage.
Posted by Mr. Seagall | June 1, 2012, 5:28 amGot any more "hook nosed Arab" caricatures to squawk out? Arab! It's the new Jew! Cohen pretty much proves that out, like we need more examples of Jewish bigotry to prove the point.
Posted by Anonymouse | June 1, 2012, 11:48 pmContinued:
After Adam Shapiro managed to slip through Israeli blocade of Arafat's compound in Ramallah, Jewish fanatic group in the US threathened to burn the home of his parents in N.Y. Perhaps that was in N.J. His parents have fled their house here in America, and their home was under police protection. I did meed Adam once. He is a brave man. Not a hypocrate like you. One of the caracteristic of hypocrate is who lies when he speaks and who pretend to be who he is not. Hanatizer's piece is fair and objective piece of journalism. He even praised Baron Cohen’s for his Holocaust awareness and described it as, "a worthy cause". Lets give credit where it is due! Please read more below on Adam Shapiro and his Palestinian wife, Huwaida Arraf. Appology is in order.
Posted by Mahmoud El-Yousseph | May 23, 2012, 12:06 am@ Seagull – Arafat was hardly a dictator and a terrorist. He was the voice of the Palestinian struggle and a leader to the Palestinians when the Palestinians needed him most. By contrast, we can call Moshe Dayan, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak, certainly Yitzak Rabin (a nobel prize winner…scoff), Golda Meir, Shamir, definitely Netanyahu and his pet ogre Lieberman, and the biggest maniacal madman, murderer, racist and ethnic cleanser…David Ben Gurion as terrorists. Certainly they have thousands of Palestinian skeletons in their closets.
Posted by Jin Kazama | May 23, 2012, 3:15 amWhen Arafat, or any Palestinian Arab leaders got a chance to rule, they became dictators. Just look at the situation now, there are 2 dictatorships, one called PA and one Gaza, no elections, no freedom of speech and no freedom of press.
Arafat, just like every Arab dictator, abused his own people, stole billions from his own, and terrorized Jews.
"the biggest maniacal madman, murderer, racist and ethnic cleanser" was Hitler which Arabs and the Palestinian leadership supported. Haj Amin AlHussaini was Arafat's uncle.
Posted by Seagall | May 23, 2012, 3:30 amAs opposed to Israel… which is basically Nazi Germany where Jews are on top instead of on the bottom?
Posted by Anonymouse | May 31, 2012, 9:05 amYou are liar. There was no holocaust. It is a total fabrication by the hews to constantly silence their critics whenever they commit evil (“oh you’re just like hilter. You are nazi for disagreeing with the Jewish agenda to subjugate everyone”). The proof of the Khmer Rouge us the skeletons. Tell me, where are the skeletons of the 4million who don’t exist. There are 208 bones in the human body, meaning 4mil x 208= 824million bones but whenever they ask the survivors “where did they bury the bodies” and then they scan that area, nothing! Not even a metatarsal. Not a tooth. It takes a long time for a bodies bones to rot, so any time you can provide the evidence please do. No evidence, no crime. Someone is innocent till PROVEN guilty, you lying shit.
Posted by Bob | April 25, 2013, 3:38 pm1) No elections because there is a continuing Gaza blockade that prevents a big chunk of the Palestinian population from participating in the election (1.4 million Gazans). ISRAEL created and maintains this blockade. ISRAEL also doesn't want the Palestinians to reform the government (national reconciliation between Hamas and the PA) in order to build the foundations to create a democratically elected government. However, you're right. It's not like our Prime Minister formed a coalition government just to avoid elections and hold his position despite the growing number of citizens who think he's driven the country into the ground. o, that's Netanyahu for you.
2) No Freedom of Speech? That's strange seems to me that Palestinians have more freedom of speech than in ISRAEL which outlawed mention of the Palestinian narrative, history, Nakba, Naksa, etc…from being taught, discussed, or even mentioned.
3) No Freedom of Press? Remember the Palestine papers revealed by Al Jazeera? Guess what…Al Jazeera is still alive in Palestine and reporting the news as usual. There are also state-funded news agencies and other independent news agencies like Maan, Internews, and other who openly criticize
the government when its justified…not just Hamas but also Fatah and other political groups, and even the PLC.
4) Arafat had his faults like anyone else did but you can't deny that he was a man of peace. He was the one who brought the Palestinian struggle to the international stage. He was also the one who worked consistently with the Americans, Israelis and the United Nations to resolve the conflict through peaceful negotations. However, we all know that Israel had other plans…we can see them rising up in the construction sites of Ofer, Beit El, or countless other settlements.
And for your information, the biggest maniacal madman, racist and ethnic cleanser was Hitler who was funded by the Rothschild Banking House, a group of wealthy Jews who sought to use Hitler to advance the Zionist agenda (The establishment of a national Zionist Jewish state)…and in fact, there over 150k jews who served in the Nazi German army…many achieving high ranks. Look up Marshal Erhard Milch and Helmut Wilberg.
Posted by Jin Kazama | May 23, 2012, 3:54 am1. Gaza and PA were dictatorships before the arms blockade. The border between Gaza and Egypt is open.
"To avoid elections" – He's not avoiding elections, Netanyahu is avoiding early elections and a waste of money.
2. Any reporter or blogger critical of Abbas is jailed or beaten. In Gaza reporters are abused regularly. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=3…
Israel will not sponsor Palestinian lies in its government funded schools.
3. "The Palestinian Authority had on Wednesday banned the Qatar-based Arabic news channel and threatened legal action over allegations it broadcast against President Mahmoud Abbas. " http://www.haaretz.com/news/palestinian-authority…
4. Arafat was a man of terror and murder who supported the worst Arab regimes, Gaddafi, Assad, Saudis, and many others.
The PLO invented plane hijackings which lead the world into 9/11 and global war.
Arafat, like his pro-Nazi uncle Haj Amin, brought only war and violence to Palestinians. When Arafat tried to kill the Jordanian king, Jordan executed 20,000 Palestinians. When he supported Saddam, 100,000 Palestinians were kicked out of Kuwait. When Arafat took over Lebanon and murdered Christians he got thousands of Palestinian killed.
Arafat is responsible for killing more Palestinians than the number killed in conflict with Israel.
You can't dispute the fact that the majority of Arabs and the Palestinian leadership supported the Nazis, so you invent lies about Jews.
Posted by Seagall | May 23, 2012, 5:08 amYou look RIGHT NOW in Israel, and it's Jews who are putting Palestinians in concentration camps, not vice versa. The Palestinian Warsaw Ghetto is Gaza. What's the Israeli Warsaw Ghetto supposed to be? Some beach resort in Tel Aviv?
Posted by Anonymouse | June 1, 2012, 9:26 amDoes this look like a Ghetto or a resort? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ0abc8GQKo&t=…
Posted by Mr. Seagall | June 1, 2012, 12:48 pmConsidering there are no fat Israelis wearing speedos and slugging down cheap vodka?
Posted by Anonymouse | June 1, 2012, 11:50 pmNot sure if MOST Arabs supported Hitler or not. But at the time why the hell wouldn't they. Why wouldn't you support your enemies enemy…Hardly going to shake the enemies hand whilst he plans to cleanse you from your land are you..Silly man.
Posted by afellow | August 30, 2012, 4:46 pmNot even one Jew served openly as a Jew in the Nazi German army. There were, indeed, people of partial Jewish descent (usually a grandparent who had converted to Christianity, the Nazi racial laws still considered someone of 1/4 Jewish ancestry, even if the Jewish ancestor had converted out of Judaism, to be a Jew). These individuals of partial Jewish background serving in the Nazi army either did everything possible to hide the fact that they had a Jewish ancestor or they were unaware of this fact themselves. In a few isolated cases, they were aware and the Nazi officials were aware, but their services and talents were deemed valuable enough that this "stain" in their family tree could be cleaned up. These closeted individuals of partial Jewish ancestry in the Nazi German forces is hardly comparable to the main religious and political leader of the Arab community of British Mandate Palestine, the Mufti Haj Amin al Husseyni, pledging his support and loyalty to the Nazi cause as a Muslim and as an Arab.
Posted by MikeBenYossef | September 30, 2012, 9:41 am1. – It's not an "arms blockade." Not even 10% of 1.4million citizens are "armed." Don't whitwash it like that. An "arms blockade" doesn't block trucks carrying rice, school books, various types of fruit, pencils, and other random stupid things that are blocked by Israel. I worked for an agency that dealt constantly with Israeli authorities in trying to import items into Gaza. Believe me, it has NOTHING to do with arms. And by the way, Hamas is not and was never a dictatorship. They were democratically elected in the West Bank and Gaza but the Americans and Israelis refused to acknowledge the results of a democratic election in which the party that they did not want to deal with…won. Of course, the PA threw a hissy fit and went crying to its funders (america and Israel) and look what we have now.
2. Actually no. That was overturned in the West Bank. Abbas made an official decree that protected the democratic rights to free speech by all journalists and bloggers, even those critical of the PA. The arrest of journalists and bloggers was carried out under the orders of a PA minister in the West Bank, whom was reprimanded and forced to overturn his policy because it had no merit and was not sanctioned by Abbas or Fayyad.
3. Your article on Al Jazeera is misleading…first, its from 2009. second, the ban was not enforced and Al Jazeera still operates regularly and holds an office right here in Ramallah. Third, it's Haaretz. That's like reading the weekly world news. Is Bat boy running for opposition party in Syria too?
4. The PLO had nothing to do with 9/11 or "global war"…which I'm assuming you're talking about WW1 or 2…because there hasn't been a "global war" since. You might want to research who killed Christians in Lebanon by the way. It wasn't Palestinians. It was Israelis with the support of right wing Lebanese militants…which by the way, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak were involved in these campaigns. Look that up too. Arafat wasn't a pro-Nazi. And certainly if he was, than every Israeli Prime Minister including Peres, Rabin, etc… with which he had close ties during various peace processes were associating with a known Nazi. Do you really know how ridiculous you sound?
5. Unless you've gone to every single Arab country in the Middle East and North Africa and have visited every single family and taken a poll of every single person, you can't say that "the majority of Arabs and the Palestinian leadership supported Nazis." There's no fact behind it. You sound stupid. Go home. No one is inventing lies about Jews. Go look up Marshal Erhard Milch and Helmut Wilberg as I have said and you'll see that they were high ranking Jewish soldiers in the Nazi army. That my friend, cannot be disputed. Neither can the fact that the Rothschild Banking House (all Jews) provided support to Hitler. I'm giving you names to make your research easier. Take advantage of it.
Posted by Jin Kazama | May 23, 2012, 7:50 am1. No rice trucks are blocked. Metal pipes used to make Kassam rockets are blocked.
Hamas killed 600 Palestinians after they were elected.
2. B.S. – same BS Arab diplomats use to defend Arab rulers "It's not the King it's a mistake of some minister".
"Assad made an official decree that Syria is a democracy".
3. Abbas is shutting down websites as well: http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2012/04/freedom-…
4. There's a global war on Arab and Muslim terror, terror attacks on 9/11 inspired by PLO invention of plane hijackings.
Arafat and Bin Laden's 9/11 put Arabs on "international stage" as you call it.
Abbas is a known Holocaust denier, but he is a Palestinian leader, and Israeli leaders can't wait for better man to show up. There might not be one. Sharon refused to shake hands with Arafat. Rabin and Peres didn't like him either.
Arafat murdered thousands of Arabs in Lebanon – just like an Arab dictator.
5. "Unless you've gone to every single Arab country"
I didn't exist in 1940 but the British took polls showing majority of Arabs and Palestinian Arab support for the Nazis.
Here's more on the Palestinian leadership: Haj Amin "met with Hitler and other Nazi officials on various occasions and attempted to coordinate Nazi and Arab policies to solve the "Jewish problem" in Palestine.[8] Due to his role of leadership in Palestine and his association with the Nazi leader, he was sometimes referred to as the "fuhrer of the Arab world".[9] In one of his speeches he said: "Kill the Jews wherever you find them—this pleases Allah."[9]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Palest… – Look at the photo of him with Hitler -FACT.
Like every Arab dictator you make up lies to deflect from FACTS. I'm glad The Dictators is mocking lying cruel dictators.
Here's more information on Ara and Palestinian support for Nazis:
Over 2,500 Tunisian Jews were to die in the camps set up by the Nazis and their collaborators. http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Palestine-Plans-Exterm…
Posted by Seagall | May 23, 2012, 8:41 amThe U.N., Amnesty International and dozens of other human rights organizations have released HUNDREDS of reports documenting that what Israel does is at least as bad as men like Assad. The only difference is Arab dictators don't have sanction from the US government, whereas Israeli Nazis do.
Posted by Anonymouse | June 1, 2012, 9:28 amAssad killed more Syrians this year than all the Palestinians killed fighting Israel since 1948.
Posted by Mr. Seagall | June 1, 2012, 12:51 pmThat's an outright lie and you know it. Israel killed more Palestinian children in THREE MONTHS than the number of Israeli children killed by Palestinians EVER.
What really sucks is that Jews make the worst sort of shoah deniers.
Posted by Anonymouse | June 1, 2012, 11:45 pmDon't argue with Mr. Seagull. Obviously he went and exhumed, examined and documented every single causality of the Israeli "dispute" with non-existing Palestinians since 1948. How else could he possibly make such concrete fact-driven claims clearly based on thousands of hours of trillion dollar research and analyses.
Posted by Kosher Bacon | June 3, 2012, 2:05 amAssad killed 13,000 Syrians this year.
The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces – less than 8,000.
Arabs kill more Arabs.
Arabs killed more Palestinians.
Posted by Mr. Seagall | June 4, 2012, 3:22 amSo 13,000 dead is a massacre but "less than 8,000" is acceptable by you?
Put that into perspective: There were about 2,977 people killed on September 11th. You're acceptable number is 2 1/2 times the deaths on September 11th.
There were also 1,400 civilians killed in the Israeli instigated Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Of course if 8,000 is an acceptable number to you than 1,400 is absolutely not worth mentioning. Your acceptable number is 5 and a half Gaza invasions.
Then there were around 100-150,000 civilians killed in Iraq…most by U.S. forces so if 13,000 in Syria is a massacre then an average of 150,000 in Iraq is a holocaust…or about 13% of a holocaust if we're going by the 2million mark.
You really do have a funny homicidal maniac way of looking at things,don't you Seagull?
Posted by Kosher Bacon | June 4, 2012, 7:59 am"There were also 1,400 civilians killed in the Israeli instigated Operation Cast Lead in Gaza"
About 1,400 total killed in Operation Cast Lead, approximately 300-400 of whom were civilans.
Not even Hamas, which exaggerates the number of civilian casualties and downplays the deaths of brave Hamas warriors in battle asserts that 1,4000 civilians were killed in Cast Lead
Posted by MikeBenYossef | September 30, 2012, 9:46 amSeagull, everyone with even half a brain knows that 911 was an inside job mainly pulled off by Jews, so don’t come with al-Qaeda (Mossad wearing dress up), Osama bin laden, weapons of mass driruction capable of hitting London in 45 minutes bullshit. WTC 7 was not hit by a plane yet it collapsed in its own footprint as a controlled demolition. All 3 were ‘pulled’ and the 400 billion dollars of gold billion disappeared from the building carried in dump trucks a la diehard 3. The ‘sexed up document’ that brought UK into the war on terror came from Jack Straw’s office (Jew). The Jews commit major terrorism on the Christians in order to make them fight the Muslims.
Posted by Bob | April 26, 2013, 3:05 amwhy would they want to marry a jew? just because a jew is a jew and arabs should marry one to be democratic. and very few jews are hatefilled racists and not worth marrying. those jews leaving judaism become human.
most jews were run out of arab/muslim states because jews bombed and threatened and coerced jews to leave for the blessed state of shit.
Posted by 5ds | May 23, 2012, 12:31 pmcorrected
and
very few jews are not hatefilled racists and therefore worth marrying.
Posted by 5ds | May 23, 2012, 12:33 pmHate? When was the last time you heard a Jew blow themselves up in a mosque? We don't need to hear rhetoric. We can judge for ourselves by the actions that speak louder than your words just who is hate filled.
Posted by beaminup | September 18, 2012, 7:13 amback to shitbag barren cohen,
a racist jew with a racist message.
seagall comes here to dance and waste time.
another racist jew with racist spoutings.
Posted by 5ds | May 23, 2012, 12:36 pmCan you imagine a Muslim state sentencing a doctor to 33 years for helping catch the world's worst (Arab) terrorist??
It's not a scene in Cohen's The Dictator, it's today's big news: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor…
Cohen isn't mocking Arabs and Muslims, Arabs and Muslims do that all on their own.
Posted by Seagall | May 23, 2012, 12:38 pmGerman media used to say the same thing about Jews, way back when.
Posted by Anonymouse | May 31, 2012, 9:06 amDude, off all people in this debate, u are the only one who speak the truth, the only person (and me) who see's the real meaning of this. and for that
i cherish u!
Posted by timothy d | September 3, 2012, 11:23 pmTimothy and Seagull sitting in a tree…K-I-S-S-I-N-G….
By the way, it can't be possible for you to actually say that you're the only one who see's the real meaning" and keep a straight face, can it? I mean are you really that full of yourself? My momma once said that "opinions are like shits, everybody has 'em but some people are full of 'em and that don't mean that they is anything more than shits." Ok, well no, she really didn't say that but it'd be cool if she did.
Posted by Nosforyoutoo | September 4, 2012, 3:27 ammaale adumim schnorrer:
"israelis divide play time between lying, stealing human organs, killing olive trees."
hey, jews gotta have fun too.
Posted by 5ds | May 23, 2012, 1:06 pmForgot to put in D.C. lobbying and campaign funding in there, too.
Posted by Anonymouse | May 30, 2012, 9:01 amAnother false statement:
"The marketing of his movies often target a segment of society with low IQ"
A person with "low IQ" can't understand that Borat wasn't about Kazakhstan. It was about British (the TV series) and American (the movie) culture and prejudice. Bruno wasn't about Austrian gays – it doesn't take much IQ to understand that.
Posted by Seagall | May 23, 2012, 3:13 pmThere we are Seagall – from your own mouth. That is the Jewish tactic. Apparently the films made, written and starred in by Jews like Borat, Bruno and The Dicator are actually all about ‘Western Prejudice’ (ie evil white people). This is how these bastards work. They make a film or write an article being really rude about a group or race and then blame it on a totally innocent group to make them fight. Gentile chaos is Jewish order.
That is why the on going race warnin America with 19,000 deaths a year is as bad as it is. As long as you can get the whites to kills the blacks to kill the Latinos to kill the orientalise, the the bloody Jew will rise to the top. Whatever can be done locally can also be done regionally, nationally, or internationally. They make their biggest profits from war and there is nothing like a nice war with some racist propaganda to feed the hatred on both sides while they fund both sides. People keep saying America pushed Iran and Iraq to war, or America funded the 28 dictators that came out of the Shool of Americas who later murdered so many people in Latin America. The Jews run America and everyone knows it, so they are the ones supporting all these tyrants from Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin to Augusto Pinochet. These people like Assad do as they are told. So when you hear about Israel saying how sad Assad is using nerve gas on his people, who gave him the weapons and who could stop him in heartbeat if they wished.
I had an argument with a Jew in Hyde Park about this. “The Muslim should hang their heads in shame over what their Arab Muslim dictators do” he said. I told him to piss off as bush, Blair, Cameron would all do what their campaign contributors ask them to in a second, and as all those dictators were placed there by the CIA and MI5 from the get go, it’s quite clear who these people work for.
Posted by Bob | April 26, 2013, 4:22 amThe last time the Palestinians had a genuine and free election on January, 2006, the United States , along with Israel led the Western nations in a boycott of the election results by imposing a collective punishment on the Palestinian people. Simply put, cutting off the food supply line and the millions a month in collected tax revenue that Israeli owes the Palestinian Authority.
When the Palestinians were asked to choose their own representative, the majority choose Hamas. Immediately, Secretary of State Rice then has the audacity to demand the return of the 50 million dollars given as an economic aide to the Palestinians. A true lesson in promoting a democracy!
By contrast, when Israel elected its 11th prime minister in March 2001, it chose Ariel Sharon for the position. He was an indicted war-criminal by his own government for war crimes committed in Lebanon . America ‘s official reaction was, we do not interfere in the "internal affair" of other nations. So, the U.S. president rolled out red carpet for him at the White House and even called him a "man of peace". What a sad sick joke!
Posted by Mahmoud El-Yousseph | May 24, 2012, 9:11 amHamas took over PA institutions in Gaza and murdered 600 Fatah members following the elections.
And that's the fault of the US and Israel? Can't Palestinians control their own actions?
Sounds like a parody of Arabs.
I wish the US, Israel and PA stopped providing any aid and money to the terrorist Hamas dictatorship.
Sharon was not "indicted war-criminal by his own government", he was blamed for not anticipating Arabs would massacre Arabs.
Should Sharon have known Arabs would behave this way? That would be racist.
Posted by Seagall | May 25, 2012, 7:13 amSharon is a hateful butcher from a family of Zionist terrorists. Rather like most Israelis and their fifth column movements in the US and Europe.
Posted by Anonymouse | May 31, 2012, 9:08 amcohen is all about mocking jews.
how jews twist: lies into truth and truth into lies; victimiser to victim and victim to victimiser; guilty to innocent and innocent to guilty.
but
jews are too busy murdering olive trees and rich soil and clean water to understand the cohen's finger up their collective ass.
anyway
jewish brain cells have been replaced with lies.
diseased minds with lies for brain cells.
Posted by 5ds | May 24, 2012, 12:13 pmYou sound like Borat
Posted by Seagall | May 25, 2012, 7:14 amYou sound like a Jewish version of Goebbels.
So you're comparing 5ds to a racist caricature, meanwhile I'm comparing you to a real-life person who was willing to say ANYTHING to justify crimes against humanity.
Posted by Anonymouse | May 30, 2012, 9:00 amOlive trees.. crimes against humanity. Hmmm.
Posted by JustMe | December 14, 2012, 3:50 pm1.5 million Palestinians have been under illegal and inhumane siege imposed by the racist state of Israel for the last five years.
Israel has no specific list of what is and is not allowed in has been published, and items gaining entry vary over time.
The UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees Unrwa's list of household items that have been refused entry at various times includes light bulbs, candles, matches, books, musical instruments, crayons, clothing, shoes, mattresses, sheets, blankets, pasta, tea, coffee, chocolate, nuts, shampoo and conditioner.
GOODS ALLOWED INTO GAZA
Canned meat and tuna, but not canned fruit
Mineral water, but not fruit juice
Sesame paste (tahini) but not jam
Tea and coffee but not chocolate
Does Mr. Seagall has any comment on this Israeli war crime?
I am not holding my breath!
Posted by Mahmoud El-Yousseph | May 26, 2012, 11:15 pm"Does Mr. Seagall has any comment"?
YES, Israel should stop all contact with Gaza terrorist regime. Does Israel sell the terrorists in Syria or Lebanon "tuna"? Absolutely not.
All business, food, electricity, phone, internet, and water Israel provides Gaza should stop immediately, including medical services to Gazans in Israeli hospitals.
They have hospitals in Egypt and Arabia don't they?
Posted by Seagall | May 27, 2012, 4:57 amIsrael doesn't "sell" anything to Gaza. So don't pat yourself on the back. Almost ALL of these items are placed on trucks by non-profit humanitarians working for local or international organizations in the West Bank, paid for by non-Israelis. Israel's job is to place soldiers at Beitunia or Kerm Shalom to "inspect" the trucks where I've personally documented stolen laptops, clothing torn with knives or ripped apart by dogs, food that is held on the trucks for days or weeks until they expire, entire shipments with tons of items rejected and forced to return because there was one box that had cookies in it…COOKIES. What's the logic behind that? Are you afraid of explosive hamas cookies raining down over Tel Aviv?
Posted by Dick Barak | May 27, 2012, 5:36 amBtw, there's this person in Israel called a COGAT…which stands for "Israeli Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories." This is the person in the Israeli government that's in charge of issuing the list of approved and prohibited items to all NGOs who are delivering aid into Gaza. Its idiots like this person who I have to deal with, in trying to rationalize why school kids in Gaza need crayons and coloring books. I bet Seagull never heard of this person or this position. You might want to research that too.
Posted by Dick Barak | May 27, 2012, 5:58 amIf Gazans lack "crayons" why don't they get it from Egypt? They share a border.
Posted by Seagall | May 27, 2012, 10:50 amAs long as the dog makes a drop in the backyard, it make no difference what color the dog is.
Posted by Mahmoud El-Yousseph | May 29, 2012, 9:53 amDick wrote "Israel doesn't "sell" anything to Gaza"
Palestinians in Gaza dispute your false claims: Gaza stores are "packed" with Israeli products http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3smJH8jb6M
Posted by Seagall | May 27, 2012, 10:49 amCongratulations for being the lowest common denominator of society. Sourcing yooooootube for factual evidence is like citing the Jerry Springer Show for political commentary. Totally affective and douche worthy.
Posted by Turd Sharon | May 27, 2012, 3:12 pmWhats wrong searching for facts ? i mean, how can you even argue if you dont searh the news, newspaper, world wide web, or yoooooootube? this just a lame excuse…
dont tell me that your brain learned all this evidence buy itself ..
Posted by Timothy D. | September 3, 2012, 11:19 pmRemember when Israel was selling illegal nuclear weapons to the apartheid government of South Africa? Good times.
Not you know, that Cohen will ever poke fun at that, right?
Posted by Anonymouse | May 30, 2012, 8:57 am200 Arabs intentionally killed this weekend by Arabs, 40 of them little children.
Don't mock the Arab dictators' cruelty, just whine about The Dictator movie.
Posted by Seagall | May 27, 2012, 1:11 pmOr here's a better idea. Lets all just agree that killing Palestinians is not newsworthy anymore because people in another country are being murdered in greater numbers, right? That's really effed up logic, seagull.
Posted by Dick Barak | May 27, 2012, 3:07 pmYou miss the point, let's agree that it's important to mock Arab dictators and their terror against Arabs and Jews.
Posted by MR. Seagall | May 28, 2012, 2:44 amCan we also agree that its not anti-semitic to criticize Israeli policies and that it's not racist against Jews or Judaism in general and that its also ok to criticize Netanyahu, Lieberman, Peres, Barak and others for their hypocrisy and lies? While we're at it can we also agree to call settlers what they really are: Terrorists? Can we agree that its an "occupation" and not a "dispute"? Can we agree that so-called "Israeli state land" in the West Bank is actually Palestinian land confiscted by the Israelis when the Jordanians turned over control of the West Bank in 1967? Can we agree that its not "unilateral" to go to the UN if its not "unilateral" to annex West Bank land, settlements and outposts as part of Israel proper? Can we agree that Israeli's prosecuted by civilian courts but Palestinians prosecuted by Military courts = racism and apartheid?
I'll agree to your terms if you agree to mine.
Posted by Dick Barak | May 29, 2012, 4:46 amStill waiting on an answer to this one. The silence is deafening.
It also tells quite alot about this zionist monkey.
Posted by Dick Barak | June 3, 2012, 2:01 amThe Dictator star Sacha Baron Cohen is not the first Jew to dress up as an Arab.
9/11 was a Mossad job. How was building # 7 brought down without being hit by an airplane? Inquiring minds wish to know!
The intentional killing of 200 Arabs this weekend has the finger print of foreign agents.
Even UN observer alluded to that, by urging other countries not to arm either the rebels or the Syrian government.
Posted by Mahmoud El-Yousseph | May 28, 2012, 12:44 amJust what an Arab Dictator would say.
Posted by MR. Seagall | May 28, 2012, 2:45 am…What a racist Jew of Euro-Russian descent would say. Cohen has a very, very narrow appeal… but it's an influential one. (Racist Jews, if you haven't figured it out.)
Posted by Anonymouse | May 31, 2012, 1:23 pmTo Mahmoud –
I'm totally with you on supporting Palestine and yes…Sascha Baron Cohen is a extremely flaming fundamental racist, bigot, Arab hater, an un-funny self-mocking Jew (according to Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League), dirty stinking zionist, and a crass, disgusting excuse for a human being and I'm sure Hollywood would never make a movie called the "Jewish Banker" or the "Jeweler" or any moving mocking the ethnic cleansers: Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, Netanyahu or others (even Peres, the so-called "man of peace" is a grimey disgusting murderer). The bias is completely obvious when films like Miral are condemned while films like Munich are praised. Go figure.
However….your argument loses validity when cite erroneous conspiracy theories about 9/11. They're theories for a reason…because there's no proof whatsoever that the Mossad or anyone else destroyed the twin towers but…there is proof that arab hijackers did it. So I'm with you on most of your points but for debate, its advisable to stay far, far away from conspiracy theories.
Posted by Johnny Teabags | May 29, 2012, 4:34 amFuck Palestine! They deserve nothing while Arabs continue to dominate and exterminate Kurds, Berbers, Copts, and Christians in their own lands. Whinging about the "poor" Palestinians is just a farce to coverup the shameful and racist imperialism committed by Sunni Arabs against anybody not of the same race and faith, especially if they follow the wrong kind of Islam.
Posted by Free Kurdistan | May 27, 2012, 6:03 pm1) Palestinians are not dominating or exterminating Kurds, Berbers, Copts or Christians.
2) Palestinians are a mix of both Muslims and Christians.
3) There is no "shameful and racist imperialism" by Sunni Arabs in Palestine. Rest assured of that.
4) You've never heard of any incidents of violence between or among muslims for "wrong kind of islam" in Palestine. Why? Because it doesn't happen here.
5) You're an idiot.
6) And a racist.
Posted by Bilbo Bagger | May 28, 2012, 1:27 am"4) You've never heard of any incidents of violence between or among muslims for "wrong kind of islam" in Palestine. Why? Because it doesn't happen here. "
Who are you kidding? Heard about Hamas fight with the "Army of Islam"?
Posted by Mr. Seagall | May 28, 2012, 2:47 amHamas fighting the so-called "Army of Islam" which is pretty much non-existent as its highly unorganized and not even a legitimate or established organization at that…is more so a clash of political ideology rather than full blown religious war as you seem to fantasize. Hamas was created out of the Muslim Brotherhood which originated in Egypt in 1928. The Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood has existed in Palestine since1946….BEFORE the existence of Israel. They were largely involved in social work, supporting communities, teaching Islam, providing food, money and clothing for poor people. When the first intifada started, they were looked at for providing guidance on the struggle for independence and that's when the political wing known as "Hamas" came into existence. While they are devout Muslims and follow the Koran, their position in Palestine as well as the positions of various other factions are largely political rather than religious.
Posted by Jin Kazama | May 29, 2012, 4:11 amPretty much anyone in Palestine can gather a few friends, write a sloppy manifesto and automatically become a political or religious party. The Army of Islam is nothing. They are powerless, unorganized and a stain on Palestine that's not even worth mentioning.
Posted by Bilbo Bagger | May 29, 2012, 4:13 amHamas also killed 600 Fatah members after it took over Gaza, and had clashes with Islamic Jihad.
Posted by Mr. Seagall | May 29, 2012, 11:00 am600? Even if that's true (it isn't) Israel is still waaaay ahead of Hamas in the numbers.
Hamas also fought against the al-Qaeda cell that tried to form in Palestine. Are you going to use that as an example of Hamas being the bad guys?
Posted by Anonymouse | May 30, 2012, 8:55 amBilbo Bagger wrote that "4) You've never heard of any incidents of violence between or among muslims for "wrong kind of islam" in Palestine. Why? "
I was showing he was lying. Hamas are bad guys because they target civilians and oppress their own civilians for Allah.
Posted by Mr. Seagall | June 1, 2012, 5:32 amYou showed nothing, except that you're the one that faked the message at the top of this particular thread.
Posted by Anonymouse | June 1, 2012, 9:29 amHas the Israeli army ever targeted or oppressed any civilians, their own, or Palestinians?
Answer that please. Simple question. Should require a simple answer.
Posted by Uncle Tom (Hanks) | June 3, 2012, 1:59 am"Army of Islam"?
Isn't that the same group created by Israel who kidnapped the Italian peace activist. Who was found hang 24 hours later in Gaza. Tell us some thing different Mr. Seagall!
Posted by Mahmoud El-Yousseph | May 29, 2012, 7:51 amYes, that's them. That's also why they're idiots. Because Vittorio Arrigoni for all instances was a Palestinian. He spent more time in Gaza fighting for the rights of Palestinians than most Palestinian activists have. Sure he was Italian, but his heart was the heart of a Palestinian. It was very stupid and very disgusting to have singled him out as a target for execution….especially perpetrated by the so-called "Army of Islam" which are nothing more than the Army of Jellybeans for all I care. I'm glad Hamas wiped most of them off of the face of the earth. And before Seagull, even gets to it. Hamas had nothing against Arrigoni and in fact, Arrigoni met many times with Haniyeh who admired Arrigoni and applauded his selfless support for the independence of the Palestinian people (ALL Palestinian people..yes, even those under the PA). No one benefitted from Arrigoni's death more than the Israelis. It was the best public relations they ever got….Arrigoni's death…AND the death of Juliano Mer Khamis were victories for the Zionist regime.
Posted by Bilbo Bagger | May 29, 2012, 8:07 am@ Free Kurdistan, your remarks are ignorant and disgrace to all the good Kurds I have know over the years.
Looks like you're barking @ the wrong tree. Resorting to profanity demonstrate your intellectual deficiency.
Viva Palestina!
Posted by Mahmoud El-Yousseph | May 28, 2012, 3:40 pmthe jewish state of the jews is explicit: life (for palestinians) is not allowed. death (for palestinians) is allowed, preferred, encouraged, ordered.
where is the misunderstanding.
Posted by 5 dancing shlomos | May 29, 2012, 1:16 pmWhen will Arabs allow "life" for Arabs in Arab dictatorships?
Posted by Mr. Seagall | May 29, 2012, 2:03 pmThat's not really an answer. You're dancing around the question, like a typical zionist nazi. Deflection is your only tactic…apparently.
Posted by Bilbo Bagger | May 30, 2012, 3:51 amWhat "dancing Palestinians" says is a lie, I can only respond with the truth about where Arabs are killed.
Go to any world section of any news site and see the headlines.
Posted by Mr. Seagall | May 30, 2012, 6:02 amCan you please respond to the truth that state-funded Jewish Rabbis in Israel openly call for racist segregation policies against Arabs in East Jerusalem and that racist policies in general against non-Jews in Jerusalem such as spitting on priests and monks, burning churches, spray painting racist remarks on church doors, vandalizing Muslim and Christian cemeteries are never investigated and their perpetrators are never convicted while anyone perpetrating similar acts against Jews whether within the green line or outside of it is never prosecuted even when Israeli rights organizations like B'tselem have documented concrete video footage to support such claims? Enlighten me.
Posted by Uncle Tom (Hanks) | May 30, 2012, 7:20 amI should also mention that its not just spraypainting racist remarks on church doors but also the doors of Mosques.
Likewise, its not just burning Churches but also Mosques.
Posted by Uncle Tom (Hanks) | May 30, 2012, 7:22 amTom, we went from Arabs massacring Arabs to a few Jews with idiotic graffiti slogans?
I was referring to the official policies of Arab states, they don't allow "life" for Arabs.
Posted by Mr. Seagall | May 30, 2012, 2:55 pmSimilar to Israeli policies which serve to virtually erase all evidence of a Palestinian race. Funny, huh? So which is it? Are they a "Democratic State" or a "Jewish State" or perhaps a 3rd world donor-funded theocracy masquerading as a democracy?
Btw, the Syrian government massacring its citizens is an absolutely horrendous situation. No question about that. However, that's in Syria. Over here in Palestine, we have Jews massacring Arabs and I have yet to hear you condemn such actions which leads me to believe that you actually support ethnic cleansing if it benefits your agenda.
Posted by Uncle Tom (Hanks) | May 31, 2012, 1:43 am"virtually erase" by giving the Palestinians 2 states in WB and Gaza. How is that for "erasing"?
Arabs in Syria say it is OK to kill Islamic terrorists, so why would I condemn the killing of Islamic Jihad, Al Aksa brigades, and Hamas terrorists if Arabs themselves call them terrorists?
Posted by Mr. Seagall | May 31, 2012, 4:26 amWhere do you get your "information" from? Prove your statements or go home.
And what part of the Zionist rhetoric: "There never was a Palestine, there never were any Palestinians, it was land without people for a people without land….Jordan is the REAL Palestine…the West Bank and Gaza are actually Judea and Samaria, Eretz Israel…blah, blah, blah…." sounds like Israel is in recognition of Palestinians?
Btw, when did the Israelis give Palestinians "2 states in WB and Gaza?" First of all, the Gaza Strip is the world's largest open air prison containing over 1.5 million people. No access to sovereign land, sea or airspace in both WB and Gaza. Also Are you talking about Area A in the West Bank which is under full PA control is only about 14% of the WB or are you talking about Area B where Israel still has full administrative control or Area C which Israel claims is "state land" and has full control with no PA presence whatsoever? Of perhhaps your talking about the land where there are NOT closed military zones, buffer zones, settlements, outposts that are retroactively being "legalized" as we speak(and I put that in quotes because nothing Israel does outside of the established green line is legal since such actions are outside of its own identified borders)? Or perhaps you're talking about the few parcels of land where the internationally condemned and illegal "fence" (never heard of a "fence" made of concrete and has watchtowers, sentries, snipers, and landmine buffers) isn't zig-zagging between virtually every single village, town and city in the West Bank…providing facts on the ground to railroad the establishment of a Palestinian state. But wait how could a Palestinian state be established if Israel ALREADY gave us 2 states in WB and Gaza? Things that make ya go hmmmm….
Just last week, Israel began combing the Jordan Valley to remove some of the landmines they've littered the desert with to prevent any movement among Arabs in that area. Btw, most of the Jordan Valley is in the West Bank, but Israel also owns the borders, beaches, and any stretch of land that is not touched by Jericho city. Also last week, a human rights organization counted 14 natural springs and aquafiers that were forcibly taken over by Israeli settlers in Ramallah governorate alone. So lets chalk that up to no access to water either…which Israel already filters 80% of.
No sir, this swiss cheese looking "state" is no state at all. Don't pat yourself on the back because Israel gave us nothing. Hell, we can't even get recognition and you want use to recognize you as a "Jewish state?" Scoff…
Posted by Uncle Tom (Hanks) | May 31, 2012, 5:45 amFunny how Cohen never makes fun of Jews like himself, right?
Posted by Anonymouse | May 30, 2012, 8:53 amHe absolutely does. In "Bruno" he took on ultra-Orthodox Jews and was chased by an angry group of them.
Funny how you don't check your facts, right?
Posted by Jerome | May 30, 2012, 11:14 amWas Ali G making fun of Jews too or was that also part of his anti-arab schtick?
Posted by Uncle Tom (Hanks) | May 31, 2012, 1:45 amWooo friggin' hooo. All the while playing a hateful gay stereotype. Gee, yeah, kudos for that.
Call me when Cohen opts to play the part of a farm-razing settler or a cheating Wall Street banker.
Posted by Anonymouse | May 31, 2012, 9:11 amPerhaps a Bernie Madoff or Sheldon Adelson biopic? Two super corrupt super rich Jewish men. I'll see that movie but it'll probably never get made. Why? Because its Anti-Semitic, right? But murdering Arabs in movies is OK. Making fun of Jews is anti-semitic. Making fun of Arabs is Ok. Making fun of or murdering any ethnic identity in a movie other than Israeli or Judaic is perfectly fine. Hell…even the Jewish homo-erotic fantasy, Inglorious Basterds, was totally fine. Smashing in the skulls of Germans and burning Hitler to death. Totally fine! Remember the holocaust? Yeah, Jews are the eternal victims of the planet earth. Never ever forget. It's like a free pass to murder, kill, torture, maim, ethnically cleanse, divide, conquer and eradicate any and all non-Jews.
Posted by Sperlock Gnomes | June 3, 2012, 1:57 amWaw, do i have to say borat?!
they make jews look like devils?
bruno to, he gets chased?
Jesus…
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Posted by 5 dancing shlomos | May 31, 2012, 12:48 pmWTF? Are you on crack?
Posted by Ayman | October 2, 2012, 11:37 amI think you're all barking up the wrong tree here. The director of all of these films deserves more blame than the lead actor. And it is, make no mistake, the same director for all three of the films, and he also directed the film "Religulous," which is also full of glaring lies and anti-Arab/anti-Muslim/anti-Palestinian sentiment. The guy's name is Larry Charles. Yell at him instead. Baron Cohen may be a jerk and a racist, but he's taking his marching orders from someone worse.
Posted by Jamal | June 19, 2012, 6:38 pmthanks for the info.
larry charles, a jew.
spare neither. charles and cohen are equally anti semitic, racist, haters, propagandists.
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Posted by iUniverse | June 27, 2012, 6:03 amI agree, this is generally what I'm finding mentioned in most articles and videos I come across
Posted by bird baths for sale | August 20, 2012, 7:04 pmYou say "Baron Cohen’s big thing is Holocaust awareness, a worthy cause indeed.".
What cause is so worthy about the Holohoax? It's already been debunked as a major propaganda fraud and one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated against mankind.
Posted by Barry | July 2, 2012, 5:27 amWill he ever stop? Why? Sacha Baron Cohen is a third generation zionist and makes his living mocking muslims and arabs and calls it art.I don't see him making a parody abt israel,or all of their undeclared nukes,WMDs, or their own racist policies not only of arabs or muslims, but their own darker "fellow
brethren " the Falasha and even the sephardic contingent. Make people look the other way, but never shine the spotlight on his own people's faults & shortcomings.I't a real big mystery that all the writers and producers of this film share something in common,I'll let you guess what that might be….
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Posted by umughal147 | September 22, 2012, 4:59 pmI just stumbled across this ill informed article. As if it’s purposefully deceptive nature was not entertaining enough, the comments really gave me a belly laugh. Why must Muslims hide behind a veil of words? The reality: not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists (in 2012) are Muslim. Why? Too angry to effectively debate any issue. Relax. Calm down. Chill out. Angry, angry people.
You’ve got to ask yourself why you’re portrayed so negatively. There’s truth to everything. Now go home and think about how you can improve yourselves. Possibly therapy?
Posted by Jethro | October 2, 2012, 11:29 amHahahaha, so true.
Posted by Mustafa | October 2, 2012, 11:47 amExactly why I am considering renouncing my religion. We are a joke.
Posted by Mo | October 2, 2012, 11:49 amThis article and the comments make me ashamed to be a Muslim. Why, brothers, must we defend the extremism in our religion using old lies? It only makes things worse.
Posted by Ayman | October 2, 2012, 11:35 amHow many Muslims per capita have one Nobel prizes? And how many Jews?
How many Muslims per capita killed by Muslims in conflict in the last 30 years? How many Jews killed by Jews?
Muslims, refocus your energies and you will find progress.
Good luck
Posted by Doctor | October 2, 2012, 11:46 amDoctor, I love that argument of “we Jews have wom so many Nobel peace prizes/academy awards, but the Muslim/Arab have not any”. The reality is if you love stealing from gentile (as they are racially inferior the piece of shit Jew) and force them into poverty by deliberately creating recessions while putting up the price of basic essentials so all the men have to gamble (and are then ‘legally’ beaten up by the Jew gangsters like the Krays in the back-alley) while the women all become prostitutes for the Jew porn stars to fuck so viciously as exhibited on so many porn sites (after all have sex with a goy is like having sex with an animal, right?) while selling drugs etc then of course you will have plenty of money to fund award bodies who award themselves all the awards, right. I mean, if I mint a bunch a medals, pin them on my chest and say “I have more medals than you…therefore I have contributed everything and am more brave, intelligent etc” I could say it till I went blue in the face, doesn’t make it so. An example is Jew Barry Obama (jewess mother and grandmother, while the father had no part in the upbringing, so how is he Muslim?) getting a Nobel peace from his Jew friends for continuing two wars on Iraq and Afghanistan while starting a third in Pakistan displacing 3million people. A piece of cake if you then bury a inventions ever devised by Muslims/Arabs (which are considerable actual) by buying up the printing industry and refusing to print anything that might highlight this issue while printing in your Jew media “this is what we have invented, what have Arabs done” and of course the western public will say “good question!” as you planned it that.
Posted by Bob | April 26, 2013, 8:32 amwhat if a palestinian actor did the same thing of what that Sacha Baron Cohen is doing against arabs and muslims ? wow i think he will not be able to do anything in his live Except ending it !!
Posted by free palestine | October 11, 2012, 10:48 pmPlease watch this on youtube : /watch?NR=1&v=NmXuQOZd_qE&feature=endscreen
and this : /watch?v=ZheYqoKtt60
Posted by free palestine | October 11, 2012, 11:14 pmMuslims don't hate jews, they hate zionists and israelis. u know, those ill minded people who after they suffered from the holocaust went and took that anger on poor palestinians. And don't fuckin tell me they were here before palestinans so it's there right to be there. Well, okay. Let's bring native americans and kill all the white people so that they could reclaim there land again. Fuck Israel except natalie portman and infected mushroom
, lol. and seagall, FUCK U U RASICT UN EDUCATED CUNT. Greeting from EGypt and we had a dictator and we fucked him just like I am fucking u zionist bitch. haha, i love talking to fanatics 
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Posted by josef | December 3, 2012, 6:58 amHe has to do it because Arabs/Muslims aren't doing it. All through history, a people have parodied and made fun of their own problems and leaders as a way to bring the populace closer together against the tyrants and problems in leadership that they face.
YOU guys aren't doing that. What's wrong? Why aren't Arabs/Muslims making, "We make fun of our own idiots!" movies and art?! It's a rite of passage for the people and it's a failure so far. Instead of complaining, you should be going, "Ha! THat's so true! Let me show you my own creation on the same topic…"
But sadly, no. As usual, Arabs/Muslims take offense as if to defend the bad people the parodies highlight as if to say he doesn't deserve it. I think it's insulting to Arabs/Muslims that we're supposed to treat them like they are so fragile like glass and can shatter and break if you say anything wrong around them.
Posted by JustMe | December 14, 2012, 3:50 pmI would say the authorities and respective government should take enough action against the conspiracy movie director Sacha Baron Cohen, as his activities made lot of pain to a certain community, the Muslim people all over the world.
Posted by read more | December 26, 2012, 8:25 amThe best analogy is if we make a film showing Americans dying in 911 and in the recent Middle Eastern wars and call that comedy.
Hey, showing these agonising deaths is only at the expense of money-hungry and trigger-happy Americans! What’s all the fuss about?
The fact is that Baron Cohen is no better nor worse than anybody else with what he is doing. I know that I just live my life, and if any anti-Muslim or American wants any trouble from me, I am more than happy to cut their head clean off.
And I say it proudly.
In the meanwhile, let’s hope a sniper blasts Rupert Murdoch’s ugly wrinkly head clean off those stinky shoulders!
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Posted by @logintrans1 | February 7, 2013, 3:51 amBaron Cohen makes movies in America in a way that reminds me of Israeli TV shows. When television programs in Israel feature an Arab character, he or she is always a stereotypical, dumbed-down version of the real thing. Why has no one called Baron Cohen out on his racism yet? Does it matter that in his three movies, not a single positive Muslim character is portrayed? I do not think his brand of racism is particularly popular since Hollywood studios have mostly abandoned it.
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Posted by Abercrombie | March 31, 2013, 7:05 amHe is a comic Genius! Comedy is funny because it has truth in it. There is a major problem with Islam and Muslim intolerance. Muslims only seem to get bent out of shape when a movie or comic strip mocks them. Where are all the "Peace Loving" Muslims rallying against all the terrorists and injustice going on due to their own people? They like to blame Israel and the Jews… to escape the reality of their heinous world crimes through the centuries. Sasha B.C. has the guts to make fun of them anyway… and they deserve it.
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