mianony Review of The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (2008 TV Movie)

All in this movie are victims, while none are winners

[7/10 · 19 January 2011]

Minor spoiler alert re the sniper. The movie script shows little insight into the lose/lose nature of self perpetuating siege, defence as routine, endless war, life with daily death, shooting, killing, not to mention stoning, beheading, terror, cruelty, & blood libel, plenty to go around regardless of which "side" anyone is on. Historically speaking, ever since Arrafat's uncle, the Grand Mufti, returned from Hitler's Germany to promulgate propaganda about Jews, and once he felt confident bearing Hitler's written promise to eradicate all Jews living in the Middle East just as soon as Germany was victorious in achieving world dominance, life between Palestinians & Jews has become largely irreversibly horrific. None of the world's "democratic" or "enlightened" nations offered refuge to Hitler's Jews. Yes, of course Israel is guilty of acts of war, a daily battle to survive (& Israel remains largely unrecognized for its many daily acts of humanitarian aid to Palestine ). Sooner or later, any nation under siege, as Israel is, ends up faced w/ consideratin of the unthinkable. If the shoe were on all the other feet? How would other democratic nations counter jihad ? Not well at all, so far, in Europe. It's also untenable to live inside a hotbed of millennial hatred while surrounded by publicly declared mortal enemies firing rockets on Israeli civilians. All nations around Israel have long been in mutual tribal conflict, but have as one sworn to eradicate Israel & all Jews. Western civilization itself may be about to become the next "Israel". BTW? No matter whose army that soldier joined who shot Hurndall, the ultimate irony is that the IFD sniper who shot him was, in fact, a Bedouin Arab.