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Thread ID: 12830 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2004-03-22
2004-03-22 13:25 | User Profile
Gibson to film Jewish 'Western' Mel Gibson looks set to provoke further antipathy among the Jewish community with plans to make a film about the story behind the festival of Hanukkah. The Jewish festival of Hanukkah celebrates the Maccabees' victory against Greek king Antiochus IV, 165 years before Jesus was born.
"The Maccabees' family stood up and made war," said Gibson, speaking on a US chat show last week.
"They stuck by their guns and they came out winning. It's like a Western."
Jewish history
"Thanks for trying to make it up to us, but no thanks," Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League told The Sunday Times.
"The last thing we need is Jewish history turned into a Western. In his hands we would probably lose," added Mr Foxman.
Claims of anti-Semitism continue to dog Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ, which has now taken over $300m (ã163m) at the US box office.
There was further controversy on Saturday, after Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, added his voice to the row.
His adviser told the official Palestinian news agency WAFA that Mr Arafat found the film "moving and historical".
Story from BBC NEWS: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/film/3555161.stm[/url]
Published: 2004/03/21 14:39:26 GMT
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2004-03-22 13:38 | User Profile
I read a really un-PeeCee article about the Maccabee revolt in, I think, New Oxford Review a few years ago. Wish I could find it.
The basic thesis was that this struggle was at heart a struggle against homosexuality. The event that set off the revolt was the foundation of a Greek lyceum in Jerusalem. While the homosexual connection isn't mentioned in the Bible, the author of this article went to some pains to prove that the original audience of the Book of Maccabees would have required no reminding of the homosexual agenda at the school for their elite sons. The Greeks had institutionalized pederasty in their education system, and they were inflicting it on the Israelites.
The author noted JPII's statement that the Maccabees saved civilization, and while I think that he had general oppression in mind, I suspect the Holy Father understood this issue as well.
Thus, the struggle for the soul of civilization was a struggle over sexual morality in general and a fight against homosexuality in particular, according to the author.
If somebody can find this I'd be most appreciative.
I wonder if Mel Gibson read that article.
If Mel really wants to stir up some shite, he could make that theme central to his film.
Walter
2004-03-22 23:27 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]
If Mel really wants to stir up some shite, he could make that theme central to his film.
Walter[/QUOTE]
Even if he doesnôt, I have a hunch that the "Maccabees" is we, and "Antiochus" is New World Order Globalism.
Foxman seems to have a similar foreboding, thatôs why he doesnôt like the idea. :thumbsup:
Btw, I got to see the Passion. The movie is first rate. I had expected a small grain of truth in all the negative criticism, but there wasnôt. The Pope had it right: "It is as it was."
2004-03-23 07:01 | User Profile
Walter Yannis,
Great Post, yes that could be a great film!
2004-03-23 07:44 | User Profile
"Thanks for trying to make it up to us, but no thanks," Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League told The Sunday Times. Foxman's words are exactly what we'd expect of someone who's used to having his posterior kissed. And you gotta love how Foxman seems to have little problem speaking for Jews as a whole, even though the ADL crowd unhesitatingly slaps the "anti-Semite" label on anyone who dares suggest that Jews tend to think with one mind on any particular issue.