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of interviewing pe ople my age, ever yday people as apposed to goin g for the historia ns and the academics and the politicians. I di d interview some of them but they have such a pr elearned patter on it, th ey’re so well re hearsed and know how to talk about it. It is much more insightful to talk to people that yo u identify with yourself peop le that you could be friends with if you were in a different si tuation and see how it affect s them. That caus es its own problems, nobody will talk to you in Israel if you are Irish and have a camera, an d we are the most hostile coun try in Europe when it comes to the Israel issue, because I think we don’t know what we are talk ing about. That is the main problem Irish pe ople have on this pa rt issue; we seem to icular think that just be cause you are pro-Palestine you automatically have to be anti-Israel - an d that’s just bu ll sh it. I am all for a two st ate solution but it doesn’t mean you have to ha te the Jews. I went ou t there with my own precon ceived ideas and then had a turn around. Peop le calling the fi lm Zionist propaganda and it just sickens me as these fuckers haven’t ev en seen the film.

I invited them to the prem iere and none of th em up. They will stil turned l bitch and moan about it but they wont actually come and see it. Pe ople don’t like to have thei r prejudices chal le nged. It was interesting I went to Canada re ce ntly and most Jews that came to see it in Canada attacked me and said it wa s pro Palestine pr op aganda!

I think its intere sting as it depend s on environment and sc your enario; a country like Ireland anything that give s Israelis a voic e is jumped upon as being Zi onist propaganda , while in Canada they’re ve ry pro Israel, so as a result 84