Reply #26: Again, you're missing the point. From a philosophical POV

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I agree the film should be seen.

These people aren't protesting from that position, however. This is personal. It isn't coming from some desire to impose censorship.

They have LOST THEIR KIDS and are making a statement.

"A group of Israelis who lost children to Palestinian suicide bombings appealed on Wednesday to organisers of next week's Academy Awards to disqualify a film exploring the reasoning behind such attacks.

The bereaved parents said they had gathered more than 32,000 signatures on a petition against the nomination in the best foreign film category of "Paradise Now", a drama about two West Bank friends recruited to blow themselves up in Tel Aviv.

The controversial film was made by an Israeli Arab director and actors working with a Palestinian crew and locations. The producer was a Jewish Israeli and the funding was European. Yossi Zur, whose teenage son Asaf was killed in a bus bombing, accused the film of sympathetically portraying a tactic hailed by many Palestinians waging a 5-year-old uprising.

"What they call 'Paradise Now' we call 'hell now', each and every day," Zur told reporters. "It is a mission of the free world not to give such movies a prize."'

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/689041.html