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...genuine remorse. Just as many Jews were depicted in the film as wishing for Jesus’s death, many were sympathetic to him, simply from the standpoint of watching a man endure a horrible ordeal. Through most of the film, the characters beating him were not Jewish, but Roman. Suggesting that the film makes any commentary on “the Jews” as a group is absurd...
...What I saw on the screen was an overplaying of Jewish guilt in the death of Christ without the accompanying compassion that Jesus himself preached throughout his lifetime,” he said...
...Brian" gets smarter at the crucifixion, when 139 people are to be crossed up, and this perpendicular Golgotha gang displays all manner of traditional English class snobbery, transported to Palestine. "Under the terms of the Roman occupation, we're entitled to be buried in a purely Jewish area," sniffs one man, whose wife (crucified next to him), says me too. Eric Idle has a few good bits as various incorrigibly sunny prisoners. "See," he tells Graham Chapman's Brian as their crosses are planted, "not so bad when you're up." Idle tops this with the immortal music-hall cheerer...
...Jewish kid is Kyle Broflofski, whose presence allows "South Park" to address the Jewish question that has dogged Gibson. In a great episode (410), Kyle's three friends - Stan, Kenny and Cartman - are prepared for their first Holy Communion and scared crapless that they'll go to hell if they don't confess all their sins. Kyle, equally, panicked, wants to confess too. But the very conservative priest, Father Maxi, informs Kyle solemnly that he and his hapless kind are condemned to wade forever in the wretched lake of fire. His colleague, the more liberal Sister Anne, is shocked...
...Peace Palace. But last week, as the court held three days of hearings on the legality of the security barrier Israel is building to keep out suicide bombers, war was in the air. Outside the palace, pro-Israeli demonstrators recited the names of suicide-bombing victims. The Orthodox Jewish group Zaka made its point by parking the charred remains of a bus destroyed by a suicide bomber out front. In response, pro-Palestinian activists shouted, "Stop the occupation now!" As the debate raged, many people wondered whether the ICJ should be hearing the case at all. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel...