The intellectual guardians of Arab nationalist orthodoxy--Said, the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, Egyptian cultural leader Saad Eddin Wahbe, Egyptian editor and pundit Mohamed Heikal--have never accepted the fact of Israel; they cannot envision a world without the rallying cause of anti-Zionism.
The Arabs can't see a world without anti-zionism
Solondz's writing doesn't cut very deep, but it does swing wide, smashing taboos on all sides--the film is the dark side of There's Something About Mary . And in some ways, it couldn't have had a more fitting launch.