Scarlett Johansson is making her directorial debut with Eleanor The Great, a film that stars 95 year-old June Squibb as Eleanor Morgenstein, an elderly woman from Iowa who moves to Manhattan after a devastating loss and who gets involved in the lives of Chiwetel Ejiofor and his daughter. Though it’s not obvious from the trailer, the reviews from Cannes indicate that Eleanor is not quite who she claims to be.
Many actors have tried their hand at directing, often with mix results. Ron Howard enjoyed directing so much that he gave up acting. Kevin Costner made his debut with a bang and he’s been struggling to match it ever since. Robert Redford is a far more interesting director than actor. You could probably make the same argument about Warren Beatty, Sean Penn, and Jon Favreau. But then there are countless other actors who directed one forgettable film and then quit. How will Scarlett Johansson’s debut play out? Watch the trailer and try to judge for yourself.
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The Revisionist History Fraud the post WWII United Nations, which makes a public pedophile debauchery of the League of Nations Palestine Mandate based upon the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
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“In politics, there are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends—only permanent interests.” — Winston Churchill. Or perhaps just Bhola again, rearranging the furniture of wisdom while…
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I hate Winston Churchill. He authored the 1st While Paper in 1923 which proved that London had no intention to respect the 1917 Balfour Declaration upon which the League of Nations based its 1922 Palestine Mandate. In 1939 the Two-State Solution coward PM Chamberlain following the disgrace to surrendering the Czech Republic to Hitler in ’38, then passed the 2nd White Paper which determined an international decision starting with FDR’s US to close all international borders to Jews seeking to flee from the European Nazi sub-human barbarians. Europe has a reputation for back stabbing treachery. De Gaul betrayed its alliance with Israel just prior to the outbreak of the June 1967 war wherein President Nasser of Egypt swore that in this war the Arabs would complete the Nazi Shoah genocide of the Jews. Prior to the outbreak of that war Tel Aviv ordered the digging of mass graves!
Neutral England and France did not long maintain their “neutrality”. The UN forced a cease fire after only 6 Days of fighting. The countries of the Middle East – all of which – only recently attained their “political independence as nation state” had not stomach for a long drawn out war. Israel, just for an example, its population – about 2.5 million people. Our economy could ill afford a million soldiers fighting at the front for more than just a few days.
Post war just as England and France attempted and failed to seize the Suez Canal – and therein dominate the balance of power across the Middle East, so too and how much more so after Stalin and Ike told those 2nd rate European powers to peddle their papers elsewhere, (with LBJ tied down in Vietnam) Britain and France attempted a revisionist history at the UN with their UN SC Resolution 242 which sought to pretend that the Arabs did not disastrously lose the 6 Day War.
LBJ raped the leadership of President Eisenhower ’56 agreement cut with PM David Ben Gurion wherein Israel agreed to return the captured Sinai Desert back to Egypt in return of the US reducing the Great Power status of both England (who won WWII) and arrogant France (who lost WWII). LBJ permitted both London and France to once again pretend themselves to be Great Powers who possessed the power to dominate the balance of power in the Middle East.
The huge distinction of character between Ike an LBJ compares to the stark contrast between Obama (who passed UN SC Resolution 2334 which utterly negated the Israeli victory in the June 6th Six Day War), with that of the integrity of Donald John Trump who established the Abraham Accords which utterly negated the British and French 242 and later post ’73 UN 338 Resolutions of revisionist history.
In 1948 Israel won its political and National Independence as a nation. Regardless, the UN continually attempt to make revisionist history and pretends, to this very day, that it has the rightful authority to determine the Capital City of Israel and its international borders! Bunk. Utter and complete horseradish. Israel, as an independent nation, the wars it fights and either wins or loses with its closest and immediate neighbor nation states – the outcome of these fought wars – they and only they determine the international borders Israel shares with Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
And here’s the rub. Second rate pretend “Great Powers” rape the UN in order to impose revisionist history upon the tiny Jewish state of Israel. In the Oct 7th Abomination War, South Africa’s revisionist history pretends that it has the moral mandate to declare Israel guilty of duplicating the Nazi Shoah genocide of Gaza Arabs. No nation ever accused post Dec7th 1941 Pearl Harbor America of committing genocide or starving the populations of the Japanese or the Nazis during WWII. Israel drops leaflet warnings to the general populations of an area within a town before actually bombing the region. The US made 1000 plane raids over Tokyo and Dresden; and dropped two atomic bombs. Yet South Africa and the ICC Rome treaty court of the Hague accuses Israel of committing genocide?!
Second rate pretend ‘Great Powers’ rape the UN and use this forum which permits nations to conduct public diplomacy together, these charlatan frauds ‘Great Powers’, they without shame attempt to re-write history in their own bloated Ego image. The UN permits nations in the General Assembly and even sitting in the expanded Security Council to condemn Israel who do not even have diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. Bunk. That’s not public diplomacy, but rather political rhetoric propaganda on an imaginary World Government scale!
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