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Posted By Colum Lynch
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 1:38 PM
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As Ban Ki moon struggles to patch up relations between Israel and Turkey following the raid on a Turkish aid ship by the Israeli Defense Forces, a Turkish film company has decided to rock the boat, so to speak. Passions on both sides are likely to be inflamed by a new film portraying a Turkish agent exacting revenge on the Israeli troops who carried out the May 31 raid.
A trailer for the movie, Valley of the Wolves: Palestine, was released this week ahead of the film's opening across Turkey starting January 28. It has been received by the Israel press as another example of mounting anti-Semitism in Turkey. The trailer opens with scenes of Turkish aid activists on the Mavi Marmara sailing toward the Gaza strip as Israeli special forces mount the ship and proceed to shoot passengers. The movie focuses on a secret operation by a Turkish hit squad -- led by a Turkish agent named Polet Alemdar, a kind of Rambo of the Islamic world -- as they travel to Israel to hunt down and carry out bloody reprisals against those responsible for the killings.
The film - the third in a series of a big budget Valley of the Wolves blockbuster flicks produced in Turkey -- provides a portrayal of Turkey's clandestine operatives as a fierce band of assassins whose deadly deeds have earned them even the respect of the menacing Israeli security forces. One Israel official cautions a colleague that "this team is a special Turkish squad. Let's take this a bit more seriously, please."
The film's hero, played by the Turkish film star, Necati Sasmaz, is openly defiant of Israeli authorities as he leads his team on a series of bloody strikes on Israeli targets, shooting up Israeli ground troops and blowing up Israeli helicopters. "Why did you come to Israel," an Israeli soldier asks Alemdar at a checkpoint. "I did not come to Israel I came to Palestine."
The films' producers courted controversy in 2006 with the release of a Valley of the Wolves movie set in Iraq and depicting the U.S. military as hair-trigger aggressors. That film cost over $10 million to make, more than any previous Turkish film, and was a hit at the box office. It included a performance by American actor Gary Busey, who played a Jewish-American doctor who harvested prisoners' organ for resale to rich clients in the United States.
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Why not, Turkey's already went down the blood libel route
with the first "Valley of the Wolves". Why should we expect an improvement in its propaganda, I mean, media industry with the third installment.
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But hey, this is the same country that sidles up to real butchers like Sudan's Bashir, and the suicide-bombing Jihadists of HAMAS.
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Turkey's ready for its closeup.
persianadvocate: Israel may be slightly barbaric in its practices, when viewed through western eyes, but it mas the middle east that made them so. Israel has done terrible things in the name of security, but who is anyone to blame them? name me one group/country who hasnt? If your children were threatened with suicide bombers who SPECIFICALLY TARGETED civilians, and they were your neighbors...what would you do?
also, this film is one of the most blatant pieces of propaganda I have ever seen. Israel never massacred anyone on that ship. thats not how Israeli special forces are trained...they dont massacre. But please, prove me wrong using a legitimate news source...other than al-jazeera or fox. want to talk about "righting wrongs", how about Iran using children as suicide bombers and mine sweepers during the Iran iraq war. How about Turkey brutally oppressing the Kurds for generations. Syria shelling and massacring thousands of its own civilians. Hezbollah killing hundreds of innocent aid workers and diplomats at the american embassies in beirut. Hamas bombing busses and nightclubs, killing only civilians. I could go on...Egypt, Sudan, Algeria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq...The Middle east is a pretty bad neighborhood, filled with alot of good people...and alot of absolutely terrible ones, who seems to gain the power and authority. If you were Israel, would you be a docile, peaceful country in such a place? Or would you be forced to adopt brutal tactics to defend yourself from burtality?
Judge not and thou shall not be judged!!! AND THAT IS FOR JESUS CHRIST NOT alha!!!
"Distract from Israel's wrongs by pointing out others. *yawn*"
Ignore your own ills by pretending that reality is not reality. *yawn*.
When I see you speaking out against the actual ridiculous items in this story, such as the Israeli doctor harvesting organs, I'll care what you and your partisan band have to say.
I suppose that when Israel or America have to bomb Iran's plan on getting nukes, you'll then be the one changing the subject or blaming someone else...
Well said.
You forgot the Pakistani genocide and so many other ills that are never mentioned because these same people are blaming Israel for...well...everything.
The fact is that of all the Muslims killed or oppressed over the last 50 years, Israel has done the absolute minority of killing and oppressing. But, people here do not care. They just want to blame Israel. It's a lot easier than blaming oneself, 'eh?
"Get out of the middle east."
So, Israel should leave the Middle East because the neighbors cannot behave?
I see. OK. Got it.
At least they chose a slightly more realistic (and I use that word loosely) event this time.
Heh why exactly not ?
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I suppose Gary Busey ought to be prosecuted for providing material support for a terrorist organization.
The Turkish assassin is only a celluloid one - Israel's are all too real.
In Israel they don't make action-adventure films about it, they do it. Watch for the next release, "Pirates of the Mediterranean 2". (Or, should it be 3? Remember the USS Liberty?)
OH NOOOO! More Rambos? Too many Americans signed up for the Army or Marines after watching those Rambo movies. They would find out that in a real battle, that the other side could actually shoot better than in the Rambo world. I'll bet that AIPAC will not allow any of those Turkish Rambo movies to be shown in the US.
I mean Israel poses a real and present threat to Turks. Turkish popular imagination rightly fixates on Israelis who always murder unjustly and Arab activists who are inevitably innocent martyrs. Too bad Turkey's secular government isn't sliding toward Islamism - if it was, maybe then we could see some real-life justice.
Rambo of the ISLAMIC WORLD? Are u serious?
It's a Turkish film with a Turkish actor in the lead.
How is he "a kind of Rambo of the Islamic world"?
Shouldn't he just be "a kind of" Turkish Rambo?
I think every country should have its own Rambo.. Having one Rambo represent not just the Islamic countries, but the Islamic WORLD itself is an injustice!
I think the "Islamic World" (whatever that is) wouldn't love the idea of being represented by a member of a secular country. After all, when the WORLD ITSELF IS ISLAMIC, how can the hero be from a secular country..
Islamic World... hmph..
well, USA has all kind of rambo movies to aid its political strategy.. What is wrong when Turkish make one? Ohh sorry I think USA is always right .. but the views opposing your own benefit is wrong.
The uss liberty...Munich assassinations...Mavi Maramara are not 'real' barbaric&bloodthirsty actions, but this ''movie'' is... to talk about Antisemitism is right, but talk about oppresion on Islam and muslim in usa is not... to call peple in somali 'pirates' is right, but to call 'israeli soldiers' ,who boarded on the ship in international seas and killed 9 civilians, as pirates is not...
The Ignorant Teaching the Uneducated...
...no wonder propaganda works so well in the Muslim world.
Wanna know for about the USS Liberty? Have you done YOUR OWN RESEARCH?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident#NSA_tapes_and_recent_developments
The problem with choosing the result before you do the research is that one stays stupid and ignorant this way.
So! If Israel DID NOT commit the crime as so many want to say against the USS Liberty, then...what does this say about the rest of the propaganda by the Ignorant and Uneducated?
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Did anybody else think this trailer was very similar to that of the Dark Knight in form, background music and editing?
Anyway this is just a movie! It’s way to spend your free time! You can enjoy watching it or not! In all movies we have exaggerations or just imaginary stories! custom essaysSo do you like it or not, it’s just a movie…
What else is new? Israel is used to dealing with such rubbish movies and propaganda.
What else is new? Israel is used to dealing with such rubbish movies and propaganda.
why this movie is so important?
mmm, i think it's so because it's against israel. and it's clear that israel is a red line, a fake red line that must be a way from any kind of criticism. even after attacking peaceful groups or aids. this movie is a simple reaction to the israeli terrorism. im trying to find a different name for attacking innocents, continous siege for a whole country and chasing anyone who want to say the truth, i can't find a proper name for that but terrorism.
it's so funny that u don't want anything to hurt israel even if it's a movie : )
is it to read, that israelis are right.
from the intellectual point of view. israelis are great in certain fields, which is not politics.
they are great in the wall street - sorry crisis cuased by them. israelis have have people everywhere, they have a good and solid system to protect their people.
what they do not have is pride, an own country and the sense of sensivity.
israelis have a culture complex deep in their heart. they made a 100 year plan to get "their" land.
now israel is thinking that it is the victim and has to defend...
guys, please bit more iq...israel is feeling fear...such fear, which they have never felt before...soon or later, they will have massive problems in this region, this is why usa is inventing reasons to be present in the middle east.
this movie is crap? you´re right, it is crap, because it is true. not like sly in rambo, or chuck norris delta force etc...or all the other c movies...this movie shows the real life with israel...killing children...siegeing land etc.
for me, this is no surprise...israel is believing, that they have the only true religion and god loves them most. they have built the tower of babylon, just to be nearer to god...how stupid can one be?
in my religion, people are the same and equal...we know that we don´t need to go to god, he is besinde us.
so dear israelis and americans, here my tips for you:
1. read and learn
2. open your fucking eyes
3. imagine and believe that the world has other better and stronger cultures than yours
4.havíng a different opinion than you does not mean to hate you
5 turks are god´s whip
The Ottoman Empire is on the return!! The world can now rest in peace!
Fuggin Turks are raghead arabs...gotta be crazy they think they take on the jews...american jews are real smart and rich...no way they let israel down...rambo my ass more like rimboy
guys, i like your habits...you always think that others are wrong.
it is not a matter of money or success. it is a matter of culture.
yes it is true , that there are more jews in the wall street than turks, which is ok. there are more jews in the us than turks, which is also ok.
what you don´t know is that it is difficult and almost impossible to take over a muslim country. you cannot bea these lands. you had one vietnam, you don´t need a second one.
israel got its land back! from whome? from the turks. don´t neglect that.
read and study 5000 yrs of history and you will understand.
you had your own rambo - graham fuller. a top cia agent, spending 25 yrs of his life in the middle east. he proves that turks are too compley for you...google him. among wrong books, you´ll find one or two which will open your eyes...
go on believing that you are right...
This film is one of the most blatant pieces of propaganda I have ever seen. Israel katalog firm never massacred anyone on that ship. thats not how Israeli special forces are trained...they dont massacre. But please, prove me wrong using a legitimate news source...other than al-jazeera or fox. want to talk about "righting wrongs", how about Iran using children as suicide bombers and mine sweepers during the Iran iraq war. How about Turkey brutally oppressing the Kurds for generations. Syria shelling and massacring thousands of its own civilians. Hezbollah killing hundreds of innocent aid workers and diplomats at the american embassies in beirut.
Longtime Washington Post correspondent Colum Lynch reports on all things United Nations for Turtle Bay.
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