[Brian Allen]

<< "I Would Die For Israel" - Interview with Steven Spielberg >>

No one wants you to die for Israel, you useless cinematic schnook, you celuloid shlumiel, you picture-hall putz!

But none of us would mind if you began to show some sign you might live for Israel.

BUMPping

[MillerCreek]

Ha, my reaction, exactly. I also wondered if but what Spielberg might consider dying for GOD instead. I think that's the point of Israel. Worshipping nationalism is a form of idol worship and we KNOW what God has to say about those who worship a golden calf, and those who did.

Spielberg's concept of Jewishness is defined in his embrace of liberalism. Note that he "loves" those he refers to as "American Jewish liberals" (something close to that)...in that they "got" his film. And he spoke with his "rabbi" -- he is affiliated with a Reform temple in L.A. and his "rabbi" from there, certainly. So, what Spielberg is saying is that he's a political person who is also Jewish. He doesn't mention God, nor Judeo Orthodoxy, which he rejects, apparently, as being among the "right wing" he thinks are not reliable.

I'm rather disgusted by his failed reasoning and certainly by his wan usery of a bogus, faux concept of "Jewishness" in this sense.

[MillerCreek]

Spielberg arrives in Havanna, Cuba

"Spielberg, who is Jewish, met descendants of survivors of Auschwitz and later laid a stone in a memorial to Holocaust victims at the city's Jewish cemetery. Cuba's Jewish community has dwindled to 1,500 members from 15,000 before Castro's 1959 revolution.

"'This culture, the people of Cuba are exploding with passion, talent and self-respect,' he told the audience that received him with a standing ovation.

"'I feel so much at home here...In only two days I have been enriched and I have gotten so much out of Cuba,' he said."

"Spielberg attacks US policy on Cuba"

...speaks out against U.S. embarg on Castro's communist dictatorship, which many liberals in the U.S. likewise also do.