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Wikileaks has revealed another thing that isn't too surprising, but is nevertheless disturbing:
I do know that if I were a showbiz worker, I wouldn't mind too much if they wanted to boycott my works, since I don't endeavor to please such tyrants, though it would still be offensive.
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Spielberg was target of an Arab League boycott
Wikileaks has revealed another thing that isn't too surprising, but is nevertheless disturbing:
Steven Spielberg was blacklisted by the Arab League's Central Boycott Office after making a $1m (£645m) donation to Isreal during the 2006 conflict in Lebanon.Wow, even after he kowtowed to the Islamic entity with Munich, they still don't care? But if Spielberg is continuing to associate himself with George Soros, who may have bought his Dreamworks SKG production office, not to mention Tony Kushner, whom I will NOT trust to do a good job on their planned Lincoln movie, then I can't feel too sorry for him.
A US embassy memo released by WikiLeaks reveals that during a meeting of the group in April 2007, diplomats or representatives from 14 Arab states voted to ban all films and other products related to Spielberg or his Righteous Persons Foundation.
At the confidential US briefing, the head of the Syrian regional office for the boycott of Israel, Muhammad al-Ajami, said that Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen had agreed to ban all Spielberg's works.
Malaysia, Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia were also present at the meeting and voted in favour of the boycott. The memo from the US embassy in Damascus to Washington says that "they and other countries will likely implement their own bans" similar to that adopted by the Arab states.
At the same meeting, cosmetics giant Estée Lauder was added to the blacklist while financial services behemoth Merrill Lynch was placed on a "watchlist".
I do know that if I were a showbiz worker, I wouldn't mind too much if they wanted to boycott my works, since I don't endeavor to please such tyrants, though it would still be offensive.
- I. Can't. Stand. It.
There is no way I can take ANY of these idiots seriously again. Egypt. Syria. Iran. North Korean Missile Launch. Fiscal Cliff. Sandy victims still shelterless while Obama readies for 20+ days in Hawaii. And what s the big concern on the Senate floor right...
- So-called Conservative Apologist For Spielberg's Leftism Doesn't Comprehend Moral Equivalence
If there's any conservative I can think of now whom I find most utterly alienating, it's Jonathan V. Last of the Weekly Standard. Some of the reasons why I find him such a turnoff can be found here, but even his take on Hollywood is really angering....
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From Israel Matzav: Nearly thirty years after the Camp David 'peace treaty' between Egypt and Israel was signed, Israel does not exist on any maps sold in Egypt. To Egyptians, Israel is just a 'painful reality.' But only a virtual one....
- Arab Times Editor-in-chief: Israel Is Doing The Arab People A Favor
Man bites dog at the Arab Times: PEOPLE of Arab countries, especially the Lebanese and Palestinians, have been held hostage for a long time in the name of “resisting Israel.” Arab governments have been caught between political obligations and public...
- Anti-semitic Port Security
Posted earlier at Mystery Achievement. Dubai ports firm enforces Israel boycottThe parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US over the purchase of American ports participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The...