Paradise ?

From: Yossi Zur, Haifa. E-Mail: yossi@blondi.co.il

Last night the Palestinian movie "Paradise Now" won the Golden Globe
award. The movie shows the route that two young Palestinians take in
becoming suicide murderers until the minute they board a bus in Tel Aviv.
The movie looks professional. The movie was done with great care for
details and is extremely dangerous not only to the middle east but to
the whole world.

My son Asaf, almost 17 years old, was a high school student in the
eleventh grade learning computer science. One day after school he
boarded a bus in Israel to get back to our home. On the way a suicide
murderer from Hebron, 21 years old, a computer science student in the
Hebron Polytechnic exploded on the bus.
17 people were killed, 9 of then school children aged 18 or less.
My son Asaf was killed on spot.

I looked at the movie trying to understand what is it trying to say,
what message does it carry?
That the murderer is human? He is not.
That he has doubts? He has none. After all he is willing to kill
himself with his victims.
That the Israelis are to blame for this brutal killing? Are the
Israelis to blame for the twin towers in New York, the night club in
Indonesia, the Hotel in Egypt, the shop in Turkey, the restaurant in
Morocco or in Tunis, The hotel in Jordan the underground in London the
train in Spain And the list goes on and on.

What makes this movie award worthy? Would the foreign reporters that
awarded this movie the golden globe do the same if the movie was about
young people from Saudi Arabia who learn how to fly in the USA and
then take Islamic ritual in preparations for their holy mission to
crash airplanes into the twin towers in New York? Would this movie get
an award then?

The movie is trying to say that suicide murderers are a legitimate way
when you feel you exhausted all other means. But a suicide murderer
who boards a bus kills 15 or 20 people, so how about a suicide
murderer who walks into a city with a biological bomb and kills 10,000
people or 100,000 people is that still a legitimate way? Where does
one put the line?

The world should put the line at one person, killing of even one
person is not legitimate. My son was almost 17 years old, he loved
surfing, he loved loud music. He is now gone because a suicide
murderer decided it's legitimate to blow himself up on a crowded bus.

Encouraging film makers to hide behind the award and say that the
world declared suicide bombing a legitimate way without looking at the
messages the movie carries and the implications makes the award
decision makers part of the evil chain of terror and co-participates
in the next suicide murders, whether those kill 17 people or 17,000
people.

Name: Yossi Zur
Address: 9 Enzo Sireni st. Haifa, 32972 Israel
Phone: +972-54-4248912
Email: Yossi@blondi.co.il . Web: www.Blondi.co.il