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Cold shivers were running down my spine while I was watching this clip. I had first seen it about a week ago, and one day later, a german documentary showed more about the movie, including a short interview with its director.

When I was watching the documentary I had a strange tension in my stomach. My head was spinning. Is this good or bad? Is it glorifying terrorism or defying it? Is it pro Israel or pro Palestine? Is it manipulative? Whose interests are presented? How can someone dare to use this topic for a piece of entertainment?

The answer is, the movie does not give answers. It asks the right questions though. It puts you in corners, enabling you to see perspectives you haven’t considered yet. It confuses you with questions of moral and joins them with questions of your heart. It is getting extremely personal, intimate even, touching you where you can’t hide.

Given these circumstances, I am interested to see what effect this movie will have on the american public. I am sure there is no big promotion budget, at least not as big as for the American/Israel Campaign. And it is not a populist topic, like the war “Over There” ( www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Sto...7,00.html ), or the overdue impeachement of Mr. Bush. But it is important. It is necessary that someone dared to make this film.

If you have the abilities and resources to write history, and you don’t, you participate in guilt of ignorance, letting the ones in power write a distorted history for us.

I have a high admiration for the courage of this film maker.