Comments on: "Death Cry"-Part One !!! http://www.mideastyouth.com/2009/10/23/death-cry-part-one/ Thinking Ahead Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mohsin Maqbool Elahi http://www.mideastyouth.com/2009/10/23/death-cry-part-one/#comment-24227 Mohsin Maqbool Elahi Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:12:07 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2009/10/23/death-cry-part-one/#comment-24227 Sami: I never knew you had spent several years in a Zionist jail, which is why your short story brings out all the suffering in graphic detail. You are a brave and patient man, and the Almighty will reward you and the other Palestinians for it. Yes, the 1967 film was based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 novel which won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. But the novel has been inspired by a true story that takes place in Czarist Russia in the early 20th century. Yes, Yakov Bok, brilliantly portrayed by British actor Alan Bates, is imprisoned as he is falsely accused of killing a Christian boy on Passover. However, he is first accused by the woman of raping her. He rejects her advances which is why she becomes frustrated and takes revenge on him by getting him into trouble with the authorities concerned. By the way, John Frankenheimer is one of my favourite directors. You must watch "The Train" (starring Burt Lancaster) and "The Fixer" (which also stars Dirk Bogarde as a lawyer), both of which are stupendous films. You are most welcome my Bedouin friend Sami where my comment is concerned. :)) Sami: I never knew you had spent several years in a Zionist jail, which is why your short story brings out all the suffering in graphic detail. You are a brave and patient man, and the Almighty will reward you and the other Palestinians for it.
Yes, the 1967 film was based on Bernard Malamud’s 1966 novel which won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. But the novel has been inspired by a true story that takes place in Czarist Russia in the early 20th century.
Yes, Yakov Bok, brilliantly portrayed by British actor Alan Bates, is imprisoned as he is falsely accused of killing a Christian boy on Passover. However, he is first accused by the woman of raping her. He rejects her advances which is why she becomes frustrated and takes revenge on him by getting him into trouble with the authorities concerned.
By the way, John Frankenheimer is one of my favourite directors. You must watch “The Train” (starring Burt Lancaster) and “The Fixer” (which also stars Dirk Bogarde as a lawyer), both of which are stupendous films.
You are most welcome my Bedouin friend Sami where my comment is concerned. :) )

]]> By: Sami, the beduin. http://www.mideastyouth.com/2009/10/23/death-cry-part-one/#comment-24226 Sami, the beduin. Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:00:41 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2009/10/23/death-cry-part-one/#comment-24226 Thanks you Mr. Mohsen for reading and commenting, This story is based on my own experience as I have spent several years in the zionist jail and knew how it there, but when you have a strong believe nothing can change or break you !!! I bet you mean "The Fixer" by Bernard Malamoud. It talks about an innocent jew who faced death for a false accusation that he killed a russian chiled and practiced bloody rituals with his blood... He was a strong man and he didnt break down to the jailors that he not only was sure of his innocence but he didnt want to go along with the version of the authority and stigmatize the jews of killing children for bloody rituals... He got out of jail finally but after loosing any trace of hope..... History does repeat itself... but now the jailor is the zionist jew and the victim is the indigenous Palestinian !!! I read this Novels and some others by this great writer. Thanks again Mohsen. Sami, the bedouin. Thanks you Mr. Mohsen for reading and commenting,

This story is based on my own experience as I have spent several years in the zionist jail and knew how it there, but when you have a strong believe nothing can change or break you !!!

I bet you mean “The Fixer” by Bernard Malamoud. It talks about an innocent jew who faced death for a false accusation that he killed a russian chiled and practiced bloody rituals with his blood… He was a strong man and he didnt break down to the jailors that he not only was sure of his innocence but he didnt want to go along with the version of the authority and stigmatize the jews of killing children for bloody rituals… He got out of jail finally but after loosing any trace of hope….. History does repeat itself… but now the jailor is the zionist jew and the victim is the indigenous Palestinian !!!

I read this Novels and some others by this great writer.

Thanks again Mohsen.

Sami, the bedouin.

]]> By: Mohsin Maqbool Elahi http://www.mideastyouth.com/2009/10/23/death-cry-part-one/#comment-24225 Mohsin Maqbool Elahi Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:14:24 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2009/10/23/death-cry-part-one/#comment-24225 Sami: "Death Cry -- Part I" reminds me of John Frankenheimer's "The Fixer" in which an innocent Jew was jailed in Russia for 'raping' a woman whom he did not even touch. His head was shaved like 'Sheikh Buddha' and he was tortured on a daily basis by the Russian jailors just like Kifah to break him up. He was beaten, abused and sodomised so that he would plead 'guilty' but he is a resolute and strong man who fights right to the very end because he knew he was innocent and he preferred dying rather than giving up on his rights. Your short story vividly portrays how much Palestinians have to suffer at the hands of callous Zionists. It also brings out the plight and helplessness of man in minute detail against cruelty and injustice of the highest order. You are doing a good job, Sami. Keep it up! Sami: “Death Cry — Part I” reminds me of John Frankenheimer’s “The Fixer” in which an innocent Jew was jailed in Russia for ‘raping’ a woman whom he did not even touch. His head was shaved like ‘Sheikh Buddha’ and he was tortured on a daily basis by the Russian jailors just like Kifah to break him up. He was beaten, abused and sodomised so that he would plead ‘guilty’ but he is a resolute and strong man who fights right to the very end because he knew he was innocent and he preferred dying rather than giving up on his rights.
Your short story vividly portrays how much Palestinians have to suffer at the hands of callous Zionists. It also brings out the plight and helplessness of man in minute detail against cruelty and injustice of the highest order.
You are doing a good job, Sami. Keep it up!

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