Nice if they had gotten a few more interviews. I also just don’t believe it’s completely true either; “there was no difference; we all lived so happy together” is one of the most pernicious and lying cliches of the region. One of the sub-plots in Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s great 2009 Ajami is of a Palestinian Christian girl who is violently prohibited from marrying a Muslim boy (the two shown below — in a very funny scene — and at 0:36 of the trailer pretending not to know each other). SEE this film and if you get your hands on the DVD make sure and watch the “Making of…” part. It’s as good as the film itself.
Here’s the film’s website: http://www.kino.com/ajami/ and trailer:
It’s just not for Oren, in his perfect Jersey English, to weigh in on the issue.
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