Hamas to Build Hollywood-style Media City in Gaza

[scribblet]

Is this a waste of Iranian money or what... beats building an economy and feeding people I guees.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...468747,00.html

Hamas to build Hollywood-style media city in Gaza

Though its people are struggling to make ends meet, Hamas officials are busy worrying about raising funds for the ambitious project to turn Gaza into a movie-making emporium. First in the production order is a film based on a novel penned by hardliner Mahmoud Zahar

It's a tale worthy of its own movie script: The Gaza Strip's isolated and cash-strapped Hamas rulers plan to build a $200 million media city and movie production house that will be part tourist attraction and part effort to cement control of the territory it seized by force in June.

So far, though, the Islamic group has raised only a tiny fraction of the money it needs for its own Hollywood, at a time when the Gaza economy has ground to a standstill and its people are struggling to feed themselves because of Israeli and international sanctions against Hamas.

Even so, Hamas envisions a glittering facility with production and graphics studios, satellite technology, gardens, water ponds, a children's entertainment area and an array of cafes and restaurants, said the Felasteen daily, a Hamas paper.

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The first movie Hamas plans to shoot will be based on a novel by one of its hard-line leaders in Gaza,

Mahmoud Zahar, the report said. Zahar has written seven novels, including a 1980 romance called ''Beautiful Woman.''

A movie is also planned about Izzedine al-Qassam, an admired preacher who led Palestinian riots in the 1930s against the British and Jews in Palestine. Hamas' military wing is named for the charismatic leader. (and here I thought the Palestinians only started attacking Israelis in 1967 in response to the "occupation." )

[Moxie]

They are in the middle of a civil war, the Palestinian People are jobless and surviving on handouts from the West and this is a priority.

I'm surpised they'd divert funds from their current program: "Purchase more weapons" to distroy Israel". Hamas and Fatah's policy of weapons before food isn't a good thing but a Media City? Shakes head.

[M.Dancer]

Say one thing..it wold bet a great location for any new mad max movies or possibly Dune...

[Moxie]

Say one thing..it wold bet a great location for any new mad max movies or possibly Dune...

LOL thanks Dancer, hot chocolate is now all over my monitor. God those were awful movies, Beyond the Thunderdome was the worst movie ever.

I guess the violence will be real, with Hamas and Fatah lobing missles at each other.

[DogOnPorch]

Pallywood is a big industry in Gaza. Might as well have a proper place to produce their 'news footage'.

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[scribblet]

Obviously they are looking to make propaganda movies, but they don't have to spend their money - heck - there are enoughs shills here doing it for them...