Benny Avni - The UN General Assembly is hosting a premier showing of Julian Schnabel's "Miral," a tale of the Middle East's travails through the eyes of a young Palestinian Arab girl, which has already received advanced notices as a film heavy on message but short on artistic merit. The event tomorrow is being held over the protest of Jewish organizations and Israeli officials, who had asked the General Assembly's president, Joseph Deiss of Switzerland, to cancel it. Offering one Arab tale of Israeli-committed horror after another, it ignores Arab violence against Jews. Deiss decided on his own, as president, to screen the movie at the General Assembly hall. Miral "has a clear political message, which portrays Israel in a highly negative light," said the president of the American Jewish Committee, David Harris. Using the General Assembly hall to screen it "will only serve to reinforce the already widespread view that Israel simply cannot expect fair treatment in the UN."
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