As a student of philology I can tell you that EVERYTHING in such a film is important and has a raison d etre i e it is not there by accident or because the script writers couldn t think of anything else The whole movie systematically portrays the Israeli soldiers in a bad light they are either utterly incompetent and cowards or they are like Nazis The German Nazi porn is not there by accident it is a symbolic representation of the Israelis supposed drive to emulate their historic persecuters the Nazis A drunk Israeli general in the midst of a war watching German porn that scene is so overloaded with symbolism In other scenes the Israeli psychiatrist explicitly likens Sabra and Shatila to Auschwitz and in yet another scene he compares it to the Warsaw Ghetto The message the movie wants to bring across in a less than subtle way is crystal clear The Israelis are the Nazis of today