Together, the Italian and French petitions garnered twice the number of signatures as the Levy-Finkielkraut declaration.

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Nirenstein's petition notes that in their anti-Israel diatribe, Levy and Finkielkraut ignore the fact that the absence of Middle East peace is due not to Israel's size but to the Arab world's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Making Israel's case

But as Ophuls expands the scope of his film to include discussions with a range of media figures and intellectuals (including Phillip Knightley, Alain Finkielkraut, and the filmmaker Romain Goupil) his critique of the conventions of the information business, in which journalists are ineluctable players, emerges.

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