Ali La Pointe rockz (avoid if you dislike political comnts)

If the essence of your post was that American military intervention (and that of other belligerent nations across the breadth of the globe) in the rest of the world should cease, then we are in agreement. When a state commits resources to destructive ends, such as the military campaign in Iraq, the net effect of this noble undertaking is the tragic loss of human life, the deprivation of private capital, the destruction of vital municipal services, and the ruthless imposition of foreign values espoused by the conqueror, all of which are utterly gratuitous and anti-social acts.

What I find personally worrying, however, is your conscious decision to ignore the endeavours of violent thugs (Al Qaeda, Hamas) -- who you seem to conveniently separate from the rest of humanity, or the western world -- who seek to wield power over sovereign individuals through some form of governance. The kind of belligerence illustrated by the American state apparatus heretofore isn't exclusive to the American state, or indeed the wider western hemisphere in general, but is a universal facet of the statist paradigm -- it applies to all controlling governments, or would-be governments.

I assume when you speak of the day when "the settlers will be pushed away from Israel" you are referring to Israeli Jews who you believe have no claim to the land they presently inhabit. So in lieu of peaceful reconciliation (which you appear to support with regards to American interventionism) you're now advocating the armed expulsion of Israeli citizens as a means to settle property disputes that began over half a century ago. Wow, aren't you the freedom fighter!

I agree with what you're trying to say, Ali La Pointe being the central character is one of the more crucial choices that Pontecorvo made with the film, it had to have some kind of anchor or at least some kind of core within such a big story, and he puts forth a character who isn't exactly 'likeable', but isn't totally unsympathetic either, he just is.....um, not sure why you had your post as rockz, heh




"If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't of spent that year in college."

Long live Iraq!
Long live the Resistance!
Long live Saddam Hussein!

I think Ali represents sort of an uncomfortable reality, especially to Americans, that his goals - a self-ruled Algeria - are valid, but his methods are unsound. At first I thought about comparing him to bin Laden, but I don't think that comparison is valid. I think a more apt comparison would be Hamas or Hezbollah, though I can't say I agree with the "destruction" of Israel. To me that implies genocide. That may not be their aim, but it seems that way to a neutral observer.

A little history lesson: Israel was created not under sanction by the UK, which had jurisdiction over the area after WWII, but behind their backs. The UK turned a blind eye to it, though, thinking Jews who were displaced after the war deserved something, since in many cases they had no homes to return to, especially in Easter Europe. I think the problem was in creating a state that was solely Jewish. A better move would have been to create a state (or just leave it like it was) where all religions would be free to worship as they pleased, and all the holy sites would be respected and preserved. Kind of like another nation I can think of...

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i really dont understand why people call us "algerians" terroists
the frenchs came to our country and wanted to expand their borders to the oder side of the mediteranian sea and besides we helped them in the ww2 too cuz they promise to give us liberty but they didnt kept their promise and they commit a genocid instead by killing many thousand of people who claim their independence so we fought to get our independance thats logic.

I thought his acting was really bad...compare the first scene (card game) with the way its done in Lock Stock...Ali is just going thru the lines without emotion, or maybe without fully understanding that he's supposed to be portraying a character who's hustling people.