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Gillian Mosely has made a sequel to his classic The Tinderboxabout the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and how, as a Jewish person, he came to sympathize with the Palestinians. The film returns to the same theme, reiterating its point that, since October 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has transformed a brutal, ruthless and worrisome political culture in a government that needs right-wing people to stay in power and forever bans Netanyahu’s self-proclaimed global corruption. In addition, he says that all citizens of Israel, rabbits and doves, are asked to accept “perpetual war” as a sign of national loyalty; an eternal state of bloodshed.
It’s a perfectly valid point, a difficult one at that Israel it has neighbors who deny its right to exist at all; important, existing adversaries such as Putin, Xi, Trump and other strongmen that Netanyahu often faces. Mosely later in the film spoils his argument, in my opinion, with the vague and pointless statement that all of this “promotes anti-Semitism”; An equality that comes close to calling Jews around the world to blame themselves for anti-Semitic prejudice. (In other words, it is not allowed to mock and say that Hamas “incites Islamophobia” or that Xi “incites anti-China racism”.) But, as before, Mosely has something to say about the terrible situation that Netanyahu’s ban on foreign journalists in Gaza is designed to hide.
