Of ocurse I am going to take the opportunity to talk about the Hamas attack on Israel. First, I'd like to talk about my background, or baggage, regarding the country. I have lived in Israel, some years ago. This was not for religious reasons; I spent several months there working on a movie. During pre-production, weeks of location scouting and shooting the movie, I was all over the country, and spent a fair amount of time in the West Bank, where we also shot. This included a lot of places that normal tourists would not see, including predominantly Arab areas such as East Jerusalem, the Arab quarter of the old city, Ramla and the southern part of Jaffa, which is predominantly Arab. It also included heavily Orthodox areas like Mea Shearim. I dealt with Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and Bedouins. Here are a few things I believe I learned there: First of all, the Palestinians I knew were perfectly normal people with the same interest in living a safe, secure
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But the world is a varied place. It depends on who you ask.
Much of the Right-wing – the Donald Douglas types - would say it was justified regardless, or deny it was as many as that, depending.
The anti-Semitic far Right would talk crap about everything being the fault of Jews.
Much of the Muslim world would be much angrier than if the same thing happened in Burma.
Much of the world wouldn't care or could not comprehend it.