Israel; Subtitles HebrewAn overly long and pseudo documentary film (based on a real story) that traces the history of an non Jewish Ethiopian child, who posing as a Jew during Operation Moses, in 1984, is sent to Israel, and is adopted by a middle class white Jewish family.
The film traces his life in Israel over a thirty year period. All sorts of political, racist and right and left wing religious issues are raised and never discussed or dealt in any depth. Shows Israel warts and all.
The only saving grace of the film is the depiction of a very frightened child and how he evolves. It also depicts the GRAVE conflicts that exist between the competing and racist groups that make up the population of Israel. The key subject that is never discussed is why only Jewish children were allowed in the country and other less than human people were left in the Sudan to die. The movie left me with the feeling that Jews, (like other crazy ethnic groups) have not learned much from the Holocaust. The movie clearly states that many Jews feel that people not in the tribe are undermenschen. That is why America is great. It accepts all.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch. Did the Israelis learn anything from WWII? Amazing that this movie got good reviews from Rotten Tomatoes.
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