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05.11.2025 12:03

Preview pic for post: Tel Aviv On Fire (2018)

Given the title of the film, it's a funny (happy or otherwise, not sure!) coincidence, that I'm writing this post on November 5th 2025, a date familiar enough to readers in the United Kingdom. Many Britons now seem to have no idea any more of the history, mind, and it's a date which needs a quick search on Wikipedia for most of those not native to these islands. There was zero intention of the two things would overlap. The only reason for writing now is a conversation about this film which took place only two days ago.

הדונלד והדיפ סטייט

الدونالد والدولة العميقة

Donald 🥴😱😵

26.02.2025 20:10

This really happened. The most grotesque thing you could imagine (until the next thing, at least). This is indeed the TRUTH that Donald Trump posted this morning. He wasn't hacked, and it wasn't a hoax. In what more auspicious possible circumstance could I return to write the first post on this blog since I left things off nearly a year ago?

Occupation *Annexation #0

13.04.2024 23:03

A introductory post about some of the actors and directors who will come into focus when I get to the heart of this difficult and often horrifying matter. Inevitably, some of these films ,and some of what I write will quickly feel outdated as events become ever more grim.

ימים נוראים

Incitement (2019)

24.03.2024 23:02

Purim falls on the 14th day of the Jewish month of Adar. It fell in late February in the year that I stayed in Jerusalem. There was a big fancy dress party, and then the day after was seemingly a fairly quiet one until my friend from down the corridor came to ask me if I'd heard the news about what had happened in Hebron.

Important Pages

Film Catalogue: Israeli and Jewish Films

Click or tap on the links or pics to go to an exhaustive (but still growing) catalogue of films. There are links to trailers, and sometimes to the whole film.

Most of the films are made in Israel and/or about Israel, but there are also many interesting films from the Jewish Diaspora.

To be clear, there are some turkeys. I don't necessarily LIKE all the films in the catalogues, but I'll talk about them anyway.

Film Catalogue: Arab/Muslim World Films

"I" comes before "P" in the alphabet, and I can't get a fancy function to randomise the order that the lists appear here.

I wanted to randomise it, but honestly the system I'm using doesn't stretch to that. Maybe in the future it will be possible.

Many troubles in the Middle East started over small potatoes, true, but please understand the intention. Whatever. Check out the films.

Directors

These pics are picked at random from a database, but I'm trying to balance between the various 'sides'. Every time I change the site again, faces will change!

Contrary to cruder analyses, there are more than two (or even three) 'sides' in the Mid East. Hence not all will be represented in the pics.

Also, maybe you've noticed that the Middle East is still pretty patriarchal, so there's a chance you don't see any female faces here. Tap/click to find a few, however.