So now we talk about the bad guys. Every story has bad guys, no? Well, then, almost every story does, and THE VASE certainly does. And who can be worse bad guys than terrorists? After all, they’re murderers. Child killers even. And that’s about as low as a bad guy can get. And the terrorists in THE VASE are all of that. We see in a flashback the results of an uprising they caused, and the tragedy it truly is. Several lives are lost and several more are impacted horribly. Fathers lose sons, husbands lose wives, and hatred escalates out of control.
So we have Hakim Khaleel, himself a tragic figure with a tragic past. Raised in a slum, that later became a state park, he holds no warmth to anything Jewish. To him, Jews are oppressors, who have occupied Palestine, his homeland, and rule with no regard to Palestinian interests. He is Hamas, at first, but rebels against his own leader when he makes peace with Israel. To bring home his fight, he plans on assassinating the Israeli prime minister, the visiting Pope, and even his own Hamas president. He has a gang of six wayward individuals, which includes his right hand man, Rashad Aziz, and together, they recruit youngsters as suicide bombers.
So that’s all scumbag stuff. Or is it? Consider he doesn’t do it for money. He doesn’t do it for fame. And he doesn’t do it for advancement within any organization. His ultimate purpose? To liberate Palestine from Israeli control. But do his means justify his end? Certainly not to any reasonable person. But who said he was reasonable? In his mind, he’s perfectly justified. But is he living a dream…or a nightmare?
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