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Book or even film....?

The latest idea of Johnny Saade regarding the issue was to hire a French journalist to write a book about the conflict. In the course of August 2006, Johnny Saade hired by contract Alain Menargues. The book was to be entitled "The eye of Cain". The contract stipulated a retainer fee for the writing of the book, and royalties on the sales.

One of the articles in the contracts has forbidden Menargues to contact directly or indirectly Jacques Saade or any of his aides at CMA-CGM. Alain Menargues

According to a report in The Emerging Markets website, Ménargues served as vice-director of Radio France International, but was dismissed in October 2004 after publishing his book “Le mur de Sharon” (“Sharon’s Wall”). The writer was accused of “anti-Semitism” by Jewish groups and Ménargues was dismissed from his functions. In the Arab World, Ménargues' book was well received and it won the Palestine-Hamchari Literary Prize in December 2004. The prize, created in 1979 at the initiative of the Franco-Arab Solidarity Association, bears the name of the PLO delegate, Mahmoud Hamchari, assassinated in Paris in 1972 by Mossad (Israel's secret intelligence agency).