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...Gibson knows us--personally. He's been in Hollywood for more than 20 years, virtually surrounded by Jews. If Mel doesn't like us, maybe it's finally time to stop blaming everyone else for the bigotry and scapegoating and start to look at ourselves. As the saying goes, If people hate you for 1,000 years, you can blame them; if you're persecuted for 2,000 years, maybe you're unlucky; but if they still want to kill you after 3,000 years, you have to ask yourself if you're doing something wrong...
...years ago when He came to die on the cross, you know?” This is the logic behind the fastest growing religious movement in Florida. With this explanation, I internally labeled them all “crazy religious zealots” and filed them away with Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, and that scary monk in the “The Da Vinci Code.” Yet during these cynical musings, I also wondered if my own rolling eyes were any better than the hands that were burning the bibles or torahs. After all, I have no patience...
...gooder. Through philanthropy, public appearances and film-making, Gibson has many avenues to express his remorse in deed, as well as word. "Maybe he goes to Israel or makes a powerful film about Israel," says Michael Sitrick, who has managed p.r. crises for Rush Limbaugh, Halle Berry and the Los Angeles Dodgers. "Maybe he does something with the Museum of Tolerance. But he has to show, not tell us, that he's sorry...
...Stay the course. Fifteen years after junk-bond pioneer Michael Milken went to prison for securities fraud, he is still slowly rebuilding his image as a philanthropist in the fields of education and medical research. Gibson may have a similarly long haul. His comments are, for many Jews, a third strike. The first strike came from comments Gibson's father made denying the Holocaust, the second from depictions of Jews in his film The Passion in what many saw as a negative light. "When you do something that plays into a preconception, you have to recognize that it will...
...Mean it. Every publicist interviewed for this story agrees that Gibson's image can only be redeemed if he truly is sorry for the comments he made. "It takes a lot of discipline to recover from something like this," says Lehane. "Generally, you have to actually be sorry...