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Perhaps they do not understand that while the Israeli standard of living is much higher than the Palestinian one, we may be as imprisoned by fear of being killed by a sniper on the road or by a mortar fired into a back yard as a Palestinian is by trenches dug across roads. Perhaps they do not understand that Israelis are as human as Palestinians, and that we all weep when our sons, daughters or ten-month-old infants are caught in the crosshairs of a sniper’s scope and then blown into pieces...
Every photograph tells the truth. The question is which truth it tells. The story that Shalhevet Pass's final baby picture told was ghastly. After the 10-month-old girl was shot in the head by a Palestinian sniper in the West Bank city of Hebron last week, the Israeli Foreign Ministry disseminated the picture to the media, with her parents' consent and the rationalization of putting a face to Palestinian violence. She lies on her side, her dead eyes half-open, her blackened lips slack. A trickle of blood beneath her head stains her cheerfully patterned sheets. The photo...
...bombing attack on Palestinian targets. But the Israelis are saying the intensity of their campaign will be measured in relation to the intensity of the suicide bombings and other attacks. In Hebron, in particular, Sharon is under pressure from settlers there to retake the Abu Sneineh hill from which sniper fire killed a ten-month-old girl. Israel?s security service is concerned that if Sharon is not seen to be responding strongly, one of the settlers will turn around and pull a Baruch Goldstein, a terrorist action against Palestinians that would create a lot more of an unpredictable...
...Battle of Stalingrad a sharpshooting shepherd (Jude Law) picks off dozens of Germans. So the Nazis send their best sniper (Ed Harris) to kill the killer. Not so much a war movie as a western with a shoot-out every 10 minutes, Enemy is the big puffy drama we expect from the director of Quest for Fire and The Lover. There's a stolid, almost Stalinist cast to the compositions and a drably desaturated palette--apparently Russia was so poor in the '40s that it couldn't afford full color. But Law, sexy and crafty as ever, and here with...
...Germans. The plot, which is set within this six month battle, is just slightly more fun. As the film's tagline reads, "Where a battle between two nations became a conflict between two men," Enemy at the Gates is essentially a spy-versus-spy battle between two snipers. It is only after the first couple of cinematographically beautiful and appropriately gory war is really really bad scenes that we meet our hero. Vassily Zaitsev (Jude Law) is a peasant who has been taught to sharpshoot by his grandfather. Distractingly, he and many of the other Russian characters in this film...