Ken Loach and Mike Leigh will now direct in Israel?


By Anthony Posner
November 3, 2010
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Some people from The BDS movement said it would never happen. But according to "Movie Premiere", Loach and Leigh have now decided to undermine the Zionist entity from within.

Leigh, always reluctant to reveal his precise script even to his actors, has pledged to shoot the film in Hebrew. Rumour has it, that the action will take place in a Yeshiva and will focus on a dispute about who actually wrote the Torah. The film entitled "Lies and Lies", will start production in 2011, although Leigh was unavailable for comment.

Loach meanwhile, is to adapt an Amoz Oz novel entitled " I love Ahava"; it is set on an extreme left-wing kibbutz. He promises to show explicit sex scenes between an older Israeli woman wearing a face mask (Vanessa Redgrave) and an exploited Palestinian Dead Sea mud worker .

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/40532/hague-sign-israel-britain-film-d...

http://www.thejc.com/node/40319

Anshell Pfeffer writes: It is hard to recall a time in which Britain was so inconsequential to the Middle East. Few Israeli diplomats are even aware he is coming and even fewer care.
Tony Blair was a diplomatic star as the closest world leader to the American president. But since Barack Obama's election, British foreign policy lost its greatest asset, its image as the closest US ally. Gordon Brown at least had some international stature, David Cameron lacks even that.
Cameron's Britain is not even viewed as an important member of the EU. Israel is more interested in relations with Germany, which is building two submarines for its navy, and serves as the main negotiator for a possible prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit. It also invests in ties with France, with its influence in Lebanon.
Britain has no tangible assets in the region. Hague needs this visit to show that he is an international player. But for Israel, he is just another visiting foreign minister who wants to make a big show of getting involved.

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Avraham Reiss

3 November, 2010 - 13:07

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I think it was 3 submarines ...

Avraham Reiss

3 November, 2010 - 13:09

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yeah, 3 ...
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/israel/sub.htm

telegramsam

3 November, 2010 - 13:13

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Hmm…yes…three German U-boats

amber

3 November, 2010 - 14:33

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tsam

Why call them "U-boats" - why tie Germany of today to the Nazis? Or were you tying Israel to the Nazis?

Another rather juvenile comment. Come on.

telegramsam

3 November, 2010 - 14:41

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They are submarines made in Germany, that's why they are u-boats.

amber

3 November, 2010 - 16:21

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tsam - they're not called that anymore - and you did it to make a Nazi connection. Why? Rather silly really.

amber

3 November, 2010 - 16:22

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Ken Loach and Mike Leigh should go and live in some Socialist utopia - like North Korea.

Anthony Posner

3 November, 2010 - 16:26

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Amber,

Not quite.. Reds under the bed.

Re tsam it iz... Nazis unter dem mattrezzez!

telegramsam

3 November, 2010 - 16:27

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Amber, they are called Unterseeboote, or U-boote for short. (And that's from my 2009 edition of the German Langenscheidt Standard Dictionary)

Avraham Reiss

3 November, 2010 - 17:12

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Amber is quite right. Anyone familiar with WWII history can't fail to be aware of the number of sailors drowned and the hundreds of thousands of tons of allied supplies sunk by those German submarines.

Israel is receiving nuclear submarines - not u-boats - from Germany.

And they are a superb deterrant; stationed off-shore near Iran (one of them, it has been announced), carrying nuclear warheads (if we have any), they are a 2nd-strike capability which ensures that Iran can't hit Israel with impunity.

telegramsam

3 November, 2010 - 17:20

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Dolphin-class submarines are not nuclear, they are diesel powered, according to Naval-technology.com

The submarine is powered by three 16V 396 SE 84 diesel engines developing 3.12MW sustained power and supplied by MTU (Motoren und Turbinen Union) Munchen GmbH, based in Munich. The submarine is equipped with three 750kW alternators, and a 2.85MW sustained power motor supplied by Siemens. The machinery drives a single shaft.

The propulsion system provides a speed of 20kt dived and a snorting speed of 11kt. The range of the submarine is 8,000 miles at a surface speed of 8kt and over 400 miles at an economical speed of 8kt dived. The hull is rated for a diving depth of 350m. The endurance of the submarine is 30 days.

And given that they are developed and built in Germany byHowaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG (HDW), in Lübeck, they are U-boote.

telegramsam

3 November, 2010 - 17:22

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PS, how do you make a immature fool go ballistic? Do him up like a kipper.

telegramsam

3 November, 2010 - 17:26

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Igniting blue touch-paper, walking away…

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