Talk:Lebanon (film)

"The Golden Lion is the highest award given to an Israeli film to date"
2 other Israeli films won Golden Globes for best foreign language film and another won the Cesar. I don't think that claim is very accurate. Kakun (talk) 19:10, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The source used is The Guardian which says: "The award marks the highest honour accorded an Israeli film and comes as attendees and organisers at the Toronto Film Festival, a big rival to Venice, are being urged by famous figures including Ken Loach, Danny Glover and Jane Fonda to boycott a section focusing on film production in Tel Aviv." Is there a misunderstanding or is the source incorrect? -- can  dle &bull; wicke  19:14, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think The Guardian's claim is very accurate. But it's really not that important. Kakun (talk) 17:19, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Who has placed this rather un-important event, not just on the Main page, but on the top of news items?
It has been there for at least two days now, but whereas 3 out of the five news listed - namely about a fire, about Moldova and about Chen Shui-bian, can all be traced to entires for 9/13 and 9/11, only the Cuba-newsitem and this rather un-important film coming from a country the size of Delaware, HAS NO PREVIOUS LISTING, ie. no people have previously spend their time entering this new-item for consideration, as we all have tried - as we all do, and then awaits that some admin will find it important to be included on the front page. It means that this news-item was included by an administrator bypassing normal rules, and it unfortunately plays to the popular held belief that there exist a bunch of people on Wikipedia anxious to promote all things Israeli. This is unacceptable and unwise for a number of reasons, the most obvious being that it easily offends an Arab and wider Muslim community, who feels that Israel is being treated disproportionally. Could anybody please put me in touch with the Admin who is responsible, so that I can deal with he/her directly ans so we can make sure this sort of thing will not happen in the future? Michelle Bentley (talk) 12:00, 15 September 2009 (UTC)


 * If this is the case, you should bring it up on the Administrator's notice board incidents: Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents. I haven't followed how it got such prominent coverage.  --John Bahrain (talk) 14:27, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. Update/Correction: Actually the 'Lebanon' film was mentioned 9/12, so I was incorrect in asserting that it had not been listed previous. But it still seems odd that it has been on top for two days. And it is this that I will now complain about.Michelle Bentley (talk) 14:35, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Have you nothing better to do?! Jesus wept.  Lugnuts  (talk) 19:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello, I expanded this article for ITN (although I did not post it) and I assure you I have neither a pro- nor anti-Israeli agenda. I first proposed the inclusion of the Venice International Film Festival on the Main Page several months ago (alongside Berlin) as Cannes is always included and yet Venice claims to be the "oldest film festival in the world" so I thought why not. When the time came, the Golden Lion was won by this film so I updated accordingly, not because of the content matter but because it had won. If it helps I expanded two other ITNs which are on the Main Page right now, Vladimir Voronin some time before it and 2009 Taldykorgan fire just after on the same day (this can be seen by checking my contributions) and I do not have much more interest either way in this article than in the other two. -- can  dle &bull; wicke  19:36, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The Arab community should grow some self esteem fast if this is what offends it. Kakun (talk) 17:21, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Boycott
The Maoz quote in the Reception section is problematic, since it describes the Toronto IFF protests as a "boycott" when, in fact, the members of that protest have repeatedly stated that it is not a boycott. If we're going to include the quote, do we have to include the "boycott" part? Following it up with a statement about the protesters saying it's not a boycott would seem irrelevant to this article, and yet having one without the other gives a misleading impression, AFAICT. - dcljr (talk) 18:54, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, I've gone ahead and included a parenthetical remark about how it's not a boycott, despite what I said above. I just don't think we can allow a misleading quote in an article to go unchallenged. If anyone wants to remove what I just added, I think they should remove the quote, as well. - dcljr (talk) 15:44, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

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