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Hafez Aladdeen is an Israeli Patriot

by Gilad Atzmon
Monday, May 21st, 2012

The Dictator-A Film Review by Gilad Atzmon

On the face of it, Baron Cohen’s The Dictator is a horrid film. It is vulgar, it isn’t funny and if it has five good jokes in it, they appear in the two minute official trailer. In short, save your time and money – unless of course, you are interested in Jewish identity politics and neurosis.

Similar to Cohen’s previous work, The Dictator is, once again, a glimpse into Cohen’s own tribal morbidity. After all, the person and the spirit behind this embarrassing comedy is a proud self-loving character who never misses an opportunity to express his intimate affinity to his people, their unique comic talent and their beloved Jewish state. But let’s face it, Cohen isn’t alone, after all, he has created The Dictator together with a Hollywood studio. So, it’s reasonable to say that what we see here is just one more Hollywood-orchestrated effort to vilify the Arab, the Muslim and the Orient.

I guess that Arab rulers, regimes and politics are an ideal subject for a satirical take, still, one may wonder what exactly does Sacha Baron Cohen know about the Arab World? As far as the film can tell, not much. Instead, Cohen projects his own Zionist and tribal symptoms onto the people of Arabia and their leaders.

In the film, Cohen plays General Hafez Aladeen, the Arab ruler of the oil-rich North African rogue state Wadiya. On the face of it, he is the satirical version of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, but in reality, Aladeen’s actions are no less than a vast amplification of the crimes committed by Israel and its war criminals such as Shimon Peres, Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni.

When Baron Cohen ridicules the Arab Dictators who obsessively seek WMD and nuclear weapons he should bear in mind that it is actually his beloved Jewish state that has, since the 1950s, been pushing the entire region into a nuclear race. It is his Israeli brothers and sisters who express every too often their lethal enthusiasm to destroy Iran and other regional entities. When Baron Cohen mocks the Arab rulers who murder their opponents and kill kids, women and elders, he once again projects Israeli symptoms because it is actually the Jewish state that so often engages in systematic mass murder and war crimes on a colossal scale. Someone should remind Cohen that the pictures of white phosphorus pouring over UN shelters were taken in Gaza, not in Saddam’s Baghdad, Homs (Sirya) or imaginary Wadiya. When Sacha Baron Cohen presents the Arab leader as a savage rapist he may want to remind himself that Moshe Katzav, who was, until recently, the President of the Jewish State is now locked behind bars after being sentenced for rape. It is therefore far from coincidence that when Cohen attempts to bond with his protagonist Dictator Aladeen, he actually speaks in his mother tongue, Hebrew. Cohen speaks Hebrew because Aladeen is not an Arab dictator, he is actually an Israeli patriot like Cohen himself.

But let’s try to transcend ourselves beyond Baron Cohen’s projections and confess: as much as Cohen’s new film is lame, Cohen, himself is far from being a fool. In fact, he has managed to bring to light a few interesting and astute political insights. For example, towards the end of the film Dictator Aladeen produces a remarkable speech at the UN in favour of dictatorship. In front of the delegations, Aladeen draws a pretty profound list of unintended parallels between the USA and dictatorship. Delivering a sharp political criticism by means of comedy deserves respect.

Another provocative insight is delivered through the character of Zoey (Anna Farris), a devout feminist and a human right activist. Zoey runs a multi-ethnic eco-friendly grocery store in Brooklyn. She is the ultimate solidarity campaigner and this time she rallies against Aladeen and his regime. While Zoey invades the street demonstrating against Aladeen’s brutality, Aladeen’s Chief of Staff Tamir (Ben Kingsley) plots against his ruler inside the UN building. He sells out his country’s assets to oil tycoons and world leaders. The cinematic meaning of it all is clear- the bond between the so-called Left and the imperial powers has been established. Zoey, the lefty progressive seems to work towards the exact same goal as the leading corrupted capitalist expansionist forces. They all want to bring the Aladeen regime to an end. I guess that many of those who monitor solidarity activism and discourse would agree with Cohen’s readings. After all, it was feminists and women’s rights groups that, in the 1990s, prepared the ground for the War against Terror and the invasion of Afghanistan. The Left was also very reluctant to support the democratically elected Hamas. I guess that a Leftist, thrown into a room together with Dershowitz and Bin Laden, would probably attempt to bond first with Dershowitz.

But Zoey isn’t just a progressive solidarity and human right activists. As the plot progresses, Aladeen and Zoey fall for each other. Towards the end of the film ‘solidarity activist’ Zoey and Dictator Aladeen get married. This is when Dictator Aladeen and the rest of us find out that Zoey is actually a Jew. From a cinematic perspective, the Jew, the human right campaigner and the solidarity activist leader are all one. This amusing reading is unfortunately consistent with the reality of the solidarity movement. Those who monitor Jewish Left activism detect a relentless effort among some Jewish campaigners to tribally hijack and even Zionize the discourse of solidarity, human rights and marginal politics. However, from a Judaic perspective, Zoey, the new wife of Dictator Aladeen is nothing short of an incarnation of Biblical Queen Esther. Like Esther, Zoey has managed to infiltrate into the corridors of a lucrative foreign power.

I guess that with AIPAC controlling American foreign policy and 80% of Tory MPs being CFI (Conservative Friends of Israel) members, a Jewish queen of a fictional Wadiya is almost exotic.


 

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28 Responses to Hafez Aladdeen is an Israeli Patriot

  1. pgg804

    May 21, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    Thank you Gilad, for confirming and expanding upon my feelings about Sacha Baron Cohen. I knew this director was expressing his love for being a Jew and his distaste for the other peoples of the world already because of what his previous films were about. That is why I have never gone to see any of them.

    I think I am aware of Cohen’s three most famous films and in each of those films Cohen attacks one of Jewish Hollywood’s favorite targets: In “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” one of their favorite subjects, “anti-semitism”, is in the movie and we find out that Kazakhstan is supposedly an anti-semitic country. I recall that when the film came out the leader of Kazakhstan felt it was necessary to defend his country’s reputation and commented on the film. I’ve never been to Kazakhstan and don’t know too much about it and I suspect the same can be said of Cohen. I thought it was odd that he picked the obscure nation of Kazakhstan (which most people know very little about) as his target. Maybe someone from Kazakhstan said something once that Cohen objected too, so in his bigoted mind the whole nation hates Jews.

    In his film “Brüno” Sacha Baron Cohen again attacks one of Jewish Holywood’s favorite enemies – Germans, in this case an Austrian. Bruno is a gay fashion show producer and among other things we here expressions like “Keep them in the ghetto” or “Train to Auschwitz”. With the huge decrease in the number of Auschwitz’s supposed victims and more people doubting what is still claimed, someday people may wonder what that statement meant, but I don’t know if the Cohen’s of the world will ever be taken to task for their attacks on Arabs or Germans or how their propaganda has continued to empower the ever powerful Jews of the world.

    And now in “The Dictator” Jewish Hollywood’s other favorite target is taken aim at: Arabs, and supposedly worse than that Arab Muslims. Since 2003 over a million Arabs have been murdered by the USA under the leadership of Jewish Neo-cons and their associates in organizations like AIPAC. In Iraq every excuse that was used to attack that country and murder its people has been shown to be a lie. The USA also attacked and murdered many Afghans and Pakistanis. In Iraq the Jewish influence in how to deal with their enemies was carried out when Saddam Hussein and his son were murdered after being humiliated by pulling Saddam out of his hiding place by his hair. Saddam’s daughter was forced to flee for her life across the border to Syria. In the 1930′s Jewish Hollywood made another movie also called “The Dictator” aimed at their enemy in those days – Germany and Adolf Hitler. Charlie Chaplin starred in the movie. At the end of WW II they dealt with their German enemies in a similar way to how they treated Saddam and his family.

    And despite what they do to other people they continuously ask “why us”. They ask why does anti-semitism continue to exist in the world? They need help and maybe Gilad Atzmon can help them.

    Sacha Baron Cohen continues the Jewish Hollywood tradition of Steven Spielberg who has dedicated most of his career to advancing Jewish interests by making holocaust movies like “Schindler’s List” and war movies like “Saving Private Ryan”. In “Saving Private Ryan” Spielberg’s pride in his Jewishness and hate for others boils over. Despite Jews being 1% of the US population and even less than that in the US army, when the American cemetery is shown in “Saving Private Ryan” he can’t help showing a grave marked with a Jewish star. Prior to that scene he had a German soldier who got the better of an American Jewish soldier slowly plunge a knife into the hated Jew’s heart while whispering into his ear. Such beautiful film making.

  2. Jonathon Blakeley

    May 21, 2012 at 1:00 pm

    Totally agree, I had the mis-fortune of seeing “Brüno”. Disgusting.

  3. searching

    May 21, 2012 at 1:41 pm

    The heck with Sasha Cohen’s movies.
    It’s a waste of time, money and brain cells.
    Here is a move that I am planning to see soon.
    And the Juice from Hollywod donlt like it.
    The movie tells about the events that the Power Elite does NOT want us to know .
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QUb_StcVzg
    http://www.bing.com/movies/search/overview?
    q=For+Greater+Glory&id=d4a75f32-63e0-40c1-a608-0d9db5ceb657&qpvt=for+greater+glory&FORM=DTPSHA

  4. Ariadna Theokopoulos

    May 21, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    “A very funny review…”
    “Anyway, no matter. This review is one of the funniest things I’ve read”

    Scathing, I’d call you and yes, funny too. But “no matter”? You have not a single comment of your own on the review? Are you unable to say what exactly you disagree with it in it? Only some rants you claim represent what you call “real life” and “everyone in the world” but which is only your protected and fiercely protective millieu.
    This site “claims” nothing–it only allows a free expression of opinion and that seems to scares the daylights out of you.

  5. searching

    May 21, 2012 at 3:18 pm

    Instead of wasting money for a new Cohen’s projections, please watch ( for free) this beautiful performace of a beautiful Russian girl.
    “Dance with swords”.
    That’s a skill that requires a lot of work to achieve results.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepw8tlQcig&feature=related

  6. searching

    May 21, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    Jewish Power Elite tries very hard, for many years ,to achieve world’s domination.
    It is a fact that should scare the hell out of the whole human civilisation.
    Their demonical/luciferian plans should be known to everybody and stopped immediately ,
    if it’s not too late.

    • Gilad Atzmon

      May 21, 2012 at 5:02 pm

      I don’t think that they try very hard, it seems to me pretty smooth actually…this is why the negation when it takes place, happens to be vile..

  7. Ariadna Theokopoulos

    May 21, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    If you keep going back to consume that which disgusts you you have additional problems that you may need to address.

  8. searching

    May 21, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    here is a must read article. it explains very well the usage of symbolim that is prevailing in the current culture. one shoud be aware of the meaning of the symbolism.’it is a must- to- know info.
    Without understanding it one is not able to comprehend too much from what is going on.
    http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-rockefeller-center/

    • Gilad Atzmon

      May 21, 2012 at 4:56 pm

      Searching: The heck with Sasha Cohen’s movies.
      It’s a waste of time, money and brain cells.

      Gilad, I don’t agree, they are horrid, the man is vulgar beyond belief, he is not particularly talented, and yet, he provides us with an incredible opportunity to look into the tribal mind.

      He is going to be at the centre of my new book..

      • searching

        May 21, 2012 at 5:08 pm

        Gilad will do, what Gilad wants to do . Searching will do, what searching wants to do :) , which means no watching Cohen’s movie.
        Though, you are probably correct, Gilad.
        His movies are “an incredible opportunities to look into the tribal mind’. I watched about 30 % of Borat’s movie and I found it incredibly boring.
        I am glad to hear that you are planning to write another book ( hm.. which reminds me that I still have not …hm..read..hm…:)
        Any more info in addition to the fact that Sasha Cohen will be at the centerfold of it??

      • searching

        May 21, 2012 at 8:26 pm

        I think your book is badly needed, Gilad. Looking at the massive amount of “hits” (almost 10 millions) under the you tube video of Sasha Cohen at Oscars 2012, as well as majority of idiotic comments underneath, makes me sad and upset.
        The public will always stay the same: mindless, brainwashed heard/sheeple.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhAg0COnqds

      • who_me

        May 21, 2012 at 8:29 pm

        Gilad Atzmon

        “I don’t agree, they are horrid, the man is vulgar beyond belief, he is not particularly talented, and yet, he provides us with an incredible opportunity to look into the tribal mind.”

        that sums up cohen very well. a representation of his face should be displayed on the inside of every urinal. :)

  9. searching

    May 21, 2012 at 4:16 pm

    “And “Searching” – is your comment serious? Or more satire? I’m finding it increasingly hard to tell which is which on here”.
    Your opinion is of NO interest to me.
    I do not pay too much attention to opinions of brainwashed, ignorant, currupted hasbarats.
    I have a proposition for the admin.
    If Kaufamn is so disgusted by this website, why we can not do some banning??
    This way at least we won’t be disgusted by his idiotic comments.

  10. searching

    May 21, 2012 at 4:26 pm

    Here is very “strange” , chinese ad promoting Soocer tournamnet Euro 2012
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s38_BMjIxBE&feature=player_embedded#t=94s

  11. Ariadna Theokopoulos

    May 21, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    Not even Jews like you disgust me, let alone “Jews.” The behavior enacted by Jewish Power does disgust me. Hard for you to fathom, isn’t it? Not hating “the other.” Not hating antithetical VIEWS. Not hating your own who thinks out of the Tribal box. Not hating!
    I don’t know anything about Luciferians but I can venture one guess:
    if they are supposed to be smart, and if all of them would be rounded up and killed, and you among them, you would die an innocent man.
    If there were a trial I’d be there to testify that you are innocent and support my defense with some of your posts.

  12. Lasse Wilhelmson

    May 21, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    Exellent Gilad, after u book u writing has reached a new level – I think. What worries me, is that everything now is so open. Is it desperation or can it be that jewish power now is more established than ever? Or may be both at the same time? Yes, I think so… This would mean that there will be more of the same in new films.

    Swedish media is absolutely shameless nowadays. A big diffrerence since only 10 years ago. And they get away with it, and to many by the shit, because honest intellectuals do not speak out any more. They are afraid to be labeled as “antii-semites” or “nazis” if they are not in the “left”. And if they are, they join the Zionists in labeling.

    I really thought that the Gaza-massacre should be an eye-opener, but it seems as I was wrong. Why donot decent people bother about the world? Is it a sort of protection for their personal life and that they just donot want to beleave that the world is up side down, as it would mean that those who rules are more evel than decent people can or want to beleave as they are humanists “by nature”.

    So what do I say to my children and grandchildren when they se The Dictator, and think it is funny and very good?

    • searching

      May 21, 2012 at 8:41 pm

      “Swedish media is absolutely shameless nowadays. A big diffrerence since only 10 years ago”.
      ………
      what is going on in Poland since the Smolensk’s Polish president and his people assassination aka plane accident is beyond shamless.
      Within those two years from the event the current, corrupted government of thugs, opportunists and thieves managed to create so many conflicts, changed so many laws, aggreviate so many people,that it’s is almost unbelievable that there is no major uprising in there. They try to destroy whatever is possbible to destroy, economy, family, schools, religion etc. Polish MSM is as corrupted and manipulating as western media elsewhere.
      I guesss the same people are pulling strings from behind the curtains.

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