adam sandler play zohan dvir and an israeli counter terrorism army commando who and after grow tire of the israel or palestine conflict and fake his own death in order to pursue his dream . he want to become a hairstylist in america . like spielberg munich and the underlying point in zohan be simple . why can not middle easterner and their admit religious and political difference notwithstanding and just make love and make money and and eat hummus in peace . it a trite message and but what complex be the way sandler and his writer have abstract the conflict . zohan be a jewish superhero . he israel national perception of itself . he invincible and strong and and effortlessly kick palestinian butt . but zohan have another side which his country would not let him nurture . he love and kind and simply want to be a hairdresser . i want to make thing silky smooth and he say . he want to cast off his hyper masculine national identity and become something else . the film be fill with sex and hummus ( love and sperm ) and a zohan move about and bring love and joy to others . zohan want to escape his superhero counter terrorist israeli persona . he want to go to america and make hair silky smooth . of course the other jew all mock him for this . they call him feigele or homo and mock his perceived weakness . only at the end and with his financial and personal success and do his parent accept zohan . you can be what you want and they say and so long a youre rich and successful at it . the film get more complex when zohan reach america . sandler take the jewish inferiority complex and play it against american superiority . thus and your jewish superhero be only ever good enough to be a lowly american hairdresser . america and a melt pot of all culture and assimilate all creed and race and remove their historical and tribal baggage and and transform their faith into a belief in consumer culture . a such and the second half of the film take place on a new york street in which one half be own by jewish shop and the other half be own by palestinian shop . both side live in harmony and sell to their customer and rake in the cash . there be no conflict here and no war and only peaceful trading . the plot of the film buy into the be all the same philosophy so clearly that zohan arch nemesis and a palestinian superhero call the phantom ( john turturro ) and have the same dream a zohan . he want to open a shoe store . both superheroes and one palestinian and one jewish and have dream of simply open a shop and tend to their own business . it the ultimate capitalist dream represent to make money in peace . in spielberg munich and we watch avner revoke his country and turn away from violence . in zohan and sandler maturation be far more complex . he replace the childish craziness of the middle east with the sanity of the united state ( usa equal diverse mother land of capitalism ) and then replace his adolescent promiscuity with monogamous marriage . zohan cease to be a pro nationalist superman and and become the bourgeois and monogamous and hetero businessman . the bland hero of every american dream . he have a house and a car and a wife and and he happy . america placate need and remove ethnic tension and and keep you sufficiently happy until you die of old age . by the end of the film and it turn out that the real enemy be a business man call walbridge ( wall street ) and who want to take the land from the jew and the palestinian in order to construct a huge shopping mall . wallbridge gather a group of uneducated redneck and appeal to their patriotism and bigotry and racism and and get them to start a war between the arab . the film go far than munich and in that it say that racial tension be really a manifestation of class tension and and that middle eastern conflict be really the product of the whiteman greed . and so the conflict in new york be not between arab and israeli but between the rich white walbridge ( who want to pit the racial minority against one another and claim the real estate a his own ) and the working class coalition of hummus eater . the jew and the palestinian thus form an alliance and defeat walbridge and his bigot army and and unite to build a mall of their own . so what we have here be jew and palestinian hold hand and create their own american dream and their own eden and without america . they build their own mall and in which each can live out their own flavour of the bland american dream . mall be good and capitalism work when it personal and religious and racial difference be illusory or superficial and blanket bigotry be the province of greedy white men and and heterosexuality and monogamous marriage be a natural part of grow up . don not mess with the zohan isn not as funny a sandler best movie ( wed singer and happy gilmore and 50 first date etc ) and but it an honest film which at least try to delve into it issue . by place the palestinian conflict in socio economic context and zohan be actually far more complex than spielberg munich and which be far too frightened to say anything . 6/10 this be your typical adam sandler comedy and albeit with clever subtext . zohan dream be to reverse the zionist transformation of the effeminate european scholar into the macho soldier of god . the film would have work well a a satire than a straight up comedy and but adam sandler be too lowbrow to do such thing . the other problem with all these middle east movie and be that theyre all make by rich white jew . aside from john turturro and all the major palestinian be play by jewish actor .