New Holocaust Movie Should Make Some Take Better Stock of MidEast Today

New Holocaust Movie Should Make Some Take Better Stock of MidEast Today

Lauf Junge Lauf Run Boy Run

New Holocaust Movie Should Make People Take Stock of MidEast Today

 

For this recent movie-goer, RUN BOY RUN was emotionally-wrenching. Scene after scene almost made me one to escape myself – the theater that is.
From the scene when Jurek’s new dog and travel companion is shot by Nazi’s to Jurek’s severed hand that he loses only because the Nazi-sympthazing doctor refused to operate are emotionial enough, yet there are many more scenes I had to endure – scenes in which Jurek comes within inches of being caught, and then, in the flashback , having to watch his Dad give himself up to the Nazi’s so Jurek can RUN in the opposite direction, and only after excellent guidance and instructions from Dad.

 

Anyone with a compassionate heart would once again be reminded of the terrible atrocity of World War II. To think that this kind of stuff was happening only 70 years ago is hard to believe. But worse, to see this same sort of thing happening again today, a short 10 years
since 3,000 Americans were burned to death not in a Nazi concentration camp but a towering inferno called the World Trade Center at the hands of equally vicious religious extremes . How more and more people and politicians, especially Jewish ones, are quickly forgetting these recent events while criticizing Israel opposition to US dealings with Iran and other terrorist countries which threaten to wipe out Israel is rather unbelievable, we believe. 

 

Film Review: ‘Run Boy Run’

Lauf Junge Lauf Run Boy Run (Variety.com)
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
Ronnie Scheib
Based on a bestseller that was itself based on a true story (the real-life protagonist appears under the end credits), “Run Boy Run” sticks faithfully,
albeit highly unimaginatively, to its source. For his Holocaust saga of an 8-year-old Jewish child cast adrift in Nazi-occupied Poland, vet German helmer
Pepe Danquart relies on the pathos inherent in the situation to carry his film emotionally as the kid’s struggle for survival increasingly reflects the
Jewish people’s struggle to maintain their identity in the face of genocide. A natural for Jewish viewers and older arthouse-goers, “Run Boy Run” feels
too old-fashioned and by-the-numbers for a wider audience.

 

Srulik (played by twins Andrzej and Kamil Tkacz) escapes the roundup in his hometown to hide out in the woods. He hooks up briefly with a small bunch of
Jewish kids also on the run, who have banded together to forage off the land, roasting stolen chickens around a fire and keeping morale alive by swapping
displays of bravado. But after an unsuccessful chicken-snatching raid results in the capture of some kids and the scattering of others, Srulik once again
finds himself alone as bitter winter and the Gestapo close in.

 

Calling himself “Jurek” to disguise his Jewishness, he seeks temporary shelter or employment at a succession of farmhouses, encountering slammed doors
and an occasional odd job until he arrives at the home of Magda (Elisabeth Duda, excellent), wife and mother of partisans, who teaches him everything
he needs to pass as Catholic. Magda is the closest the film ever comes to an authentic character. Even Jurek, in virtually every frame of the film, is
defined almost solely by his will to live, functioning mainly as a witness to events with little personal coloration or interiority.

 

By the same token, the people whom Jurek encounters on his desperate, years-long wanderings function like a running tally of relative Polish
innocence or guilt in the Holocaust, rather than distinct characters. Thus, when a farm accident costs Jurek his arm, a “bad” doctor refuses
to operate because the boy is a Jew, while another, “good” doctor tends him and helps him to escape.

 

Danquart’s anecdotal, checklist-style approach furnishes fodder for the simplest kind of identification with his hero, and the sheer presentation
of these terrible grievances may prove sufficiently empathy-inducing for the target audience. Changes of tone, although possible, are rarely pursued;
in the film’s one foray into humor, the handicapped Jurek delights in inventing more and more outrageously heroic stories about how he lost his arm,
but this entertaining, tale-spinning talent disappears without a trace. If the Tkacz twins’ thesping never hits a wrong note, it rarely provides access
to any process of consciousness. Even the character’s ultimate choice between assimilation and the assumption of his Jewish heritage reads merely as a
choice between signposts.
For this recent movie-goer, RUN BOY RUN was emotionally-wrenching. Scene after scene almost made me one to escape myself – the theater that is.
From the scene when Jurek’s new dog and travel companion is shot by Nazi’s to Jurek’s severed hand that he loses only because the Nazi-sympthazing
doctor refused to operate are emotionial enough, yet there are many more scenes I had to endure – scenes in which Jurek comes within inches of
being caught, and then, in the flashback , having to watch his Dad give himself up to the Nazi’s so Jurek can RUN in the opposite direction, and
only after excellent guidance and instructions from Dad.

 

Anyone with a compassionate heart would once again be reminded of the terrible atrocity of World War II. To think that this kind of stuff was happening only 70 years ago is hard to believe. But worse, to see this same sort of thing happening again today, a short 10 years
since 3,000 Americans were burned to death not in a Nazi concentration camp but a towering inferno called the World Trade Center at the hands of equally vicious religious extremes . How more and more people and politicians, especially Jewish ones, are quickly forgetting these recent events
while criticizing Israel’s opposition to US dealings with Iran and other terrorist countries which threaten to wipe out Israel is rather unbelievable,
we believe.

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WHY HEAVY ARTILERY TO EGYPT? 60 Minutes Love Fest, Death Panels

 

 

 

WHY ARE WE GIVING F-16s to EGYPT, WHOSE LEADER HATES ISRAEL?

 

Does it make any sense that we are arming new President Morrisey of Egypt with heavy duty rockets and tanks, especially when he has repeatedlyspoken out against Israel with extreme statements like the Jews descended from apes and pigs’ (taken right from the Koran and ‘The Holocaust never happened.’

And. what would Egypt even do with the guns? Shoot them at Israel?
They have no other enemies and we can’t think of what else they would
use them for. This is beyond bizarre that the Obama administration
would continue arming Egypt, even after Obama admitted that Egypt
is not a friend of ours. And, with our economy, it’s just
million dollars more in debt…

Sadly Obama administration believes that they can help democratize
Islamic nations like Egypt.  They need only look at the 60 year histroy of the ‘Brotherhood’  to  see that there never has been any indication of peace with Israel or even any one who is not a Muslim for that matter. Nice to be idealist but reality is reality. 

Asbad as Mubarik may have treated his people , Morrisey and the new
Islamic government is worse as we see by the continued civil insurrections.

And, then there are others like Senator mary Landreau of Louisiana who feel there’s no spending problem, ‘despite what Fox News says.’   Thus, the spending continues.. and when it goes for inapproriate things we wonder…  If my small business ran without budgeting I’d be in big trouble, yet the  U.S. government can continue on this way, affecting 300 million citizens!

 

 

OBAMA PROBLEM : It’s Largely in the Attitude.

As long as Obama makes everything about him
it’s going to be harder for im to get things done.
Instead of saying ‘I’m going to insist this gets done,’
as he stated to Las Vegas high schools 1-29
after flying across country in his jet just to make that speech.

If Obama tried saying ‘WE would like to work together
to get things done.’ That’s how legislation works. There’s
an old expression ‘ You woo with honey ‘

Obama’s big problem in getting the Republicans to
go along with things is his ATTITUDE. As good a
politician he may be as far as wooing voters (rightly
or wrongly) he makes everything about ‘ME’when it comes
to his constituents, including some Democrats lately.

Just try it President. A very simply thing.

 

 

60 Minutes Love Fest

It appears a carefully scripted interview featuring outgoing Secretary fo State Hillary Clinton with President Obama took place sunday night January 31 to help position Clinton in a better light for a likely run for President in 2016.

 Following what most objective viewsers must consider a meltdown by her in the recent Benghazi Congressional hearing, Clinton needed to go out on a positive note and Obama and liberal leaning 60 MInutes helped accommodate her,

 

Clinton spoke about how proud she is of how she performed as Secretary and the
position in which she left the country. One could easily ask whY and how?
Under Clintoon the U.S. lost two at least two long-time pro-american administrations
in Egypty in Libya. while they may have been dictatorships, at least the the
governemtns of Mubaric and Kadafi remained pro-Israel and helped keep their
geographical neighborhoods non-violent over the past few decades. Their ‘Muslim
Brotherhood’ replacements have already resulted in considerable bloodshed
including the loss of our Libyan ambassador Stevens and three other americans –
another black mark against
Clinton as it appears she and her fellow administrators might have been able
to prevent the deaths had they paid better attnetion to security reports.

 

Her admission to not liking to appear on Sunday morning talk shows and that ‘ it didn’t
matter’ what she did or didn’t do during the Benghazi affair hardly speaks well
for her. Even the one real notch in her belt, the killing of Bin Laden has come
into question as to whether it was the Bush administration that really set up
the intelligence that took Bin Laden, and some are now questioning the possible
torturous methods used in gaining information. Finally, under Clinton, the U.S.
lost more Navy Seals that in all prevous years coombined including 23 in one
incident along with over 1,000 military troops in Irag and Afghanistan,
where war and American deaths continue to mount.

 

Yes, Clinton travelled thousands of miles around the world during her tenure,
but what was really accomplished to make the world a safer place? It would
appear the U.S. has more enemies today than ever before while she leaves
with Israel in a precarious state, without a true friendly nation in its midst.
Meanwhile, the U.S. continues giving f-16 jets to Egypt and other weapons to our
enemies, which could likely be used against Israel -who else would they be
used against?. Meanwhile, our rather inept Congress praises Clintons – at least
with an outward display of words upon her exit as Secretary of State. And, if
things went so well and she wants to run for President, while is she leaving
her post?

 

In any case the 60 MInute ‘lovefest’ was no doubt an attempt by the left leaning
media – and Obama – to help clearthe ‘bad taste’of Clinton’s k Benghazi
testimony and position her for no less than a better legacy and possibleh Presidential
positioning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SARAH PALIN WAS RIGHT ABOUT DEATH PANELS

 

Prior tot he Obamacare debate, former Republican Vice Presidential nominee
Sarah Palin and others were widely critisized for stating that Obamacare
would result in older citizens being ‘sacrificed’ before their time.

 

Now , after the fact, now that Obama is well ensconsed in his second term
Presidency and the Democrats are in control they are all but admitting
this is one of the ways that Obamacare will have to be paid for, by letting
older population die as they get closer to their time

 

former secretary of state Robert Reich came out recently saying this in
so many words. The President can’t deny it. Taxking the rich can only cover so much
like 8 days out of a year. Something will have to be paid form other sources.