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On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:39:23 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Hamas videoed their attrocities because they wanted the video to spread.
They wanted the notoriety. They intended the videos to propogate.

If there's copyright infringement, it's not the film festival that would
get sued but the producer.

Yeah - imagine the SS with portable cam corders shooting pictures in
Auschwitz and other such places.

The copyright to Mein Kampf was held by the state government of
Bavaria for the first 75 years though it ran out on 1/1/2016. The
Bavarian government still monitors who reprints it.

Not sure what the legalities are in non-German translations.
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:10:01 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

The artistic community is famously left/liberal/"progressive" in
orientation so I wasn't remotely surprised by the Festival's decision to >rescind its invitation to show the film; it's exactly what you'd expect
at a time when there is so much nonsense in the mainstream media about
the handling of aid distribution in Gaza. The imbecilic politicians -
like Macron, Starmer, Carney (Canadian PM), and Albanese (Australian PM)
- with their threats to recognize Palestine are an extra factor in >prolonging the war by encouraging Hamas. The dubious grounds they used
to reject the film just stank of the Festival capitulating to the Left.

Agreed. I would have little objection (even though I wouldn't agree
with it) if my prime minister had done so AFTER a peace deal was
completed but I agree international leaders who would acknowledge a
Gazan state run by HAMAS lengthen the current war by doing so.

HAMAS is on the record as saying they will repeat 10/7/2023 again and
again until they achieve their goal - they are quite explicit on that
point - so why the **** would international leaders support continuing
warfare?

(Of course I didn't vote for Carney and hope this encourages others
not to do so in future due to horsesh** like this)
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:10:07 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

What changed? Apparently, we have around 2 million Muslims in this
country now, far outnumbering the Jewish population, which is somewhere >around 350,000. Who can deliver more votes? The math is simple. Then
there's the CBC, with its $1.5 billion/year stipend from the government, >recently raised another 10% under Carney. They refuse to even call Hamas >terrorists, despite them being designated a terrorist organization by
our government. (This is the same stance as the BBC takes and it's >abundantly clear that the BBC is as anti-Semitic as it can get away
with, which is a lot.)

I think the average lifelong Canadian is still just as supportive of
Jews and Israel as ever but we are being ignored in favour of the newer >voices - and the leftist sympathies of our last two ministers of Foreign >Affairs, Melanie Joly and Anita Anand.

Agreed though "who can deliver more votes" is both (a) probably their motivation and (b) betrays a complete absence of moral values.

Maybe I'm just an old fart but one of the things I expect from my
politicians is a basic understanding of right and wrong and nearly all
of them have mastered that with respect to China (particularly
involving intimidation against the Canadian Chinese community - which
is mostly in Vancouver and Toronto)
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:55:44 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

I don't want UNRWA back in Gaza but I don't think what the Netanyahu >administration is doing is working.

I don't want my government giving a penny to UNRWA as they have
demonstrated their intimate link to HAMAS - and that was demonstrated
when hostages were found in houses owned by UNRWA employees.

If that's not good reason for immediately defunding UNRWA I surely
don't know what is. That and their totally phony multi-generational
definition of a refugee.
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