It may be worth pointing out Yoni Goodman, the animation director for Waltz w/ Bashir, is behind this Gaza piece, _not_ the Waltz w/ Bashir team. I've been disappointed to read director Ari Folman's ambiguities regarding Gaza, such as "There is a constant conflict, you know... [the film] is always relevant to current events" (from W. Post).

I have to wonder whether it's "safe" for Ari Folman to examine Lebanese Civil War occurrences from 25 yrs. ago, while Gaza, equally atrocious, but politically red hot, receives something of a fatalistic shrug from the director.

Fortunately, Yoni Goodman has taken a different approach. Kudos.

More accurate and elaborated, about the same length (its more than Movement-boundaries):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em2JB6eysQo&feature=related

RE: Brilliant Israeli Animation on Gaza Horrors

ME: Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

RE: "...which was produced by Yoni Goodman, animation director of "Waltzing With Bashir."

ME: Could this have cost them an Oscar for 'Best Foreign Film'? "Enquiring minds want to know."

Was that an on-line educational video on how to win friends and influence people? How many credit hours did I earn for watching it? Seriously, an animation doesn't show the real pain and suffering. It's whitewash. It hides the truth behind a children's entertainment media which most people tend to ignore. An in your face documentary is the only way to get to people's gut to make them take notice. However, I don't think there are enough people in the world to sway Israel to reconsider their position in Gaza. And with the US never having a consistent National policy regarding Israel and the Palestine people - it always swings left to right depending on which Party holds court in both the Executive and the Legislature, don't expect any long term commitments.

Upon reading the latest turgid and pretentious political lesson from our Zionist in Bat Yam, I am sincerely of the opinion that he, and many others who share his one-eyed outlook on the world, has no conception whatsoever of what a violent death is: what it means to be an unarmed civilian shot through the head by a heavily-armed soldier or to have one’s wife or child dying in one’s arms or a missile exploding in one’s face.

If this reads like a personal attack on YBD, it is not. In fact, it is an attack on all those like him who just KNOW all the answers because they go to schule on a Friday night and are paid-up members of AIPAC. Invariably, most have never served in any army – for if they had done so, they would know that no army of any democratic state has a strategy of killing women and children – unless in self-defence.

I am, of course, open to criticism, but I find that the capacity of YBD and friends to absorb Zionist propaganda without any research for the truth, is mind-boggling. It is accepted in the UK that American Jews are, almost without exception, pro-Zionist but it is hard to understand why there is no questioning of Israel’s political system which is acknowledged to be corrupt. Nearly every Israeli premier has been investigated either for fraud or corruption.

Finally, our friend and his cohorts will never admit that the vast majority of harsh criticism comes not from the UK, or Arab states, or Europe – but from Israel itself. If he would, during a quiet moment, sit down and acknowledge this fact, perhaps he would modify his right-wing, Likud-propaganda-disseminating stance.

Arabs, Palestinians and other non-Jews are, in essence, no different from anyone else. They bleed as we bleed. They value their land and freedom as we value our land and freedom and they will fight for their lives and families and we do. If our friend, and his friends, do not accept that it is a crime to dehumanize a people because they are ethnically different, then he should not expect to be forgiven when he asks God for forgiveness on Yom Kippur.

The video is good, but it's a cartoon, much like MJ's view of the conflict, that is, grossly oversimplified.

I do not agree with YBD but his comments are always worth pondering. One point he continually makes which MJ seems continually oblivious to is that Palestinian groups like Hamas are not really interested in a two state solution, and this is why they are politically popular, although repressive Israeli policies help too. MJ is still fantasizing about a two state solution, but if the Palestinians accept it, it means they lost the war of 1948 forever. If they hold out, no matter how bad things might be in the present, they still have a chance to take Palestine back. I am sure that there are some Palestinians that MJ knows who are willing to accept the 1948 defeat as permanent, but I doubt that's the case for the majority of the Palestinians, and certainly not for the leadership of Hamas. Any peace solution is going to have to address this fact. I supported the Gaza offensive because I believe that it was effective in pointing out to the Palestinian people who supported Hamas the folly of the notion that they can defeat Israel militarily. However, I am deeply disappointed by the failure of the international community to move to take advantage of the cease-fire and press both sides for concessions. I don't support a blockade on the Israeli side that denies basic foodstuffs to the Palestinian people. I do support a blockade on the Egyptian side that prevents the smuggling of Katusha rockets. But in cartoon world, I suppose that everything is the same. There are only befuddled good cartoon people and denying hands that drop from the sky.