Is the movie District 9 a warning to all of us? (Warning: Spoiler)

I saw District 9 yesterday and realized that the movie critics got it all wrong. They assume that because it was set in South Africa that it was a commentary on the country's history of Apartheid. I looked at the movie and saw Gaza and the West Bank. At the end f the film, that narrative said that in the new camp, District 10, the alien population stood at "2.5 million and growing". THAT stood out to me as an indication of a possible sequel and a parallel to a refugee population in Israeli occupied territories and the anger that has boiled over for so long. And I left the theatre wondering if the human jail-keepers knew what they were in for.

that was going pretty good until they had to bring in the cutesy baby alien - what a cop out.

I don't go to movies often, but I should probably see this one.

I don't think they had to spend too much money on sets - it was already there.

I think it also touches on some of the foreigner backlash that occurred in SA after the end of Aparthied - the influx of people from Zimbabwe after Mugabe trashed that country.

Best science fiction movie in the last several years. Far, far better acting and character development than usual, not to mention excellent cinematography and sound design.

cat threw up. After all, they love to eat cat food. The alien beings in “District 9,” nicknamed “prawns” because they look like a cross between lobsters and grasshoppers, arrive in a space ship that hovers over Johannesburg. Found inside, huddled together and starving to death, are the aliens, who benefit from a humanitarian impulse to relocate them to a location on the ground.

Here they become not welcomed but feared, and their camp turns into a prison. Fearing alien attacks, humans demand they be resettled far from town, and a clueless bureaucrat named Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley) is placed in charge of this task. The creatures are not eager to move. A private security force, headed by van der Merwe, moves in with armored vehicles and flame-throwers to encourage them, and van der Merwe cheerfully destroys houses full of their young.

Who are these aliens? Where did they come from? How did their ship apparently run out of power (except what’s necessary to levitate its massive tonnage?). No one asks: They’re here, we don’t like them, get them out of town. There doesn’t seem to be a lot to like. In appearance, they’re loathsome, in behavior disgusting and evoke so little sympathy that killing one is like — why, like dropping a 7-foot lobster into boiling water.

(Rest of review)
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090812/REVIEWS/908129987

The aliens weren't trying to wipe-out the the humans from day 1.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9#Apartheid_references

I don't think it has anything to do with Israel. At all.