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		<title>LEMON TREE: Q&amp;A with Eran Riklis</title>
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Based on actual events, Eran Riklis&#8216; Lemon Tree (no connection to Sandy Tolan&#8217;s novel The Lemon Tree), which opens today in the Los Angeles area, chronicles a Palestinian widow&#8217;s fight to prevent the Israeli army from razing  her lemon grove. The problem is that all those lemon trees are  located right next door to the brand new house &#8212; actually, &#34;fortress&#34; would be a better description &#8212; of the Israeli minister of defense. Security agents have deemed the grove a potential hide-out for terrorists, who could then fire rockets right onto the minister&#8217;s dining table.
Sounds like a political film? Well, sure. Lemon Tree is definitely political. (The real-life case was that of defense minister Shaul Mofaz and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEMON TREE: Q&amp;A with Eran Riklis Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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LEMON TREE: Q&#038;A with Eran Riklis Part I
Along those lines, the men in charge in Lemon Tree don&#8217;t come  across in a very positive light. A bossy male security agent demands  the destruction of the lemon grove. A bossy Palestinian man threatens  Salma because of her relationship with her lawyer. The defense minister  is obsessed with his career and may be having an affair with an  assistant. The Palestinian lawyer himself seems to be as interested in  advancing his career as in helping Salma, even though he actually cares  for her.
The two women, however, are both admirable characters. Was  that a conscious decision, to make the women &#8220;stronger&#8221; &#8212; in their  [...]]]></description>
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