Hollywood's Anti-Arab Propaganda Movies

Published: October 31, 2007, 9:16 am

As I watched "The Kingdom" I couldn't help feeling throughout the film that I had seen this all before many times The film uses the same tired, and sadly successful, Hollywood formula of Arab villains, American heroes, and lots of weaponsSurprise, surprise. Who'd have guessed it?Hollywood presents Arabs in a negative light!Be it the careless ridicule of funny accentsand clothes in the Indiana Jones trilogyor the more malevolent terrorist caricaturesevident in The Siege, True Lies and The KingdomHollywood plays a vital part in concocting the trigger-happy bogeyman Americans are always too eager to declare war upon, and to condition us into accepting their version of reality.The bogeyman is dehumanized and made sub-human by the state's propagandists, both essential elements in conditioning the populace into accepting destruction and murder of the enemy.Now we have a newly minted enemy, the Arab bogeyman.Years of conditioning by Hollywood vilifying Arabs had jump-started the American

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