Stephen Spielberg's "Balanced" View of Terror

Front Page Magazine ^ | June 28, 2005 | Debbie Schlussel

[Rummyfan]

Don't count on it. The film, starring the outspokenly pro-Palestinian Ben Kingsley, is bound to be no different than the "balanced" Oscar-winning documentary, "One Day in September,"

I've seen ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER and I have to say it is anything but pro-Palestinian.

[ko_kyi]

"accidentally killing a Moroccan waiter"

Mistakenly killing, not accidentally. They meant for him to die, but they thought he was someone else.

[Borges]

Yeah really the guy is party Jewish and was in Schindler's List.

[frogjerk]

Uum, to Jewish people, WW2 was something else entirely regardless of politics. What a callow statment.

I guess non-Jews had no stake in WWII? I stated the Libs love Stalin and that is the truth. I said nothing regarding the Jewish people or what their stake in the matter was. Don't put words into my mouth and do not try to set me up as an anti-semite.

[Borges]

Wasn't impying you were. Just that blanket statements like that about WW2 have always gotten my goat. You were however implying that Spielberg made the Nazis look bad in various films only because he wanted Stalin to win. That, considering everything he does for Jewish charities, is callow and misguided. IMO

[BenLurkin]

Will not be seeing WOTW.

Had planeed not to already.

[Valin]

Also a fictionalized version in "The Little Drummer Girl" by John Le Carré

[Cultural Jihad]

And Hollywood film makers can't seem to figure out why their revenue is dropping.

As mogul Louis B. Meyer said in the previous century: "If you want to send a message, use Western Union."

[pabianice]

Stephen Spielberg: continuing to demonstrate to the world that some of us Jews are really, really stupid.

[Vision Thing]

So now Spielberg is a Stalinist? The Indy films are some of the most blatantly pro American heroism films ever made.

Snicker. The Indy Jones films show more Nazi flags than American flags.

[johnb838]

I'll tell you one thing the Munich Massacre did. It sealed the deal for me. I was thirteen years old and just starting eigth grade when it happened. I had just moved to Illinois to live with my Dad and Dan Walker was walking the length of the state running for governor. I'd always been on Israels side, raised that way, Dad's family had been Jewish, I wasn't told that but...

You'll see me write things like Israel Right or Wrong on here and "Israel, with you from the first, with you to the last", stuff like that, and it was that despicable event that made me like that. Nothing has ever happened EVER since then to elevate the pals one iota in my eyes. They deserve to understand the lesson of decimation.

[Borges]

Indiana Jones is an American heroic type, modelled on Doc Savage and other pulp adventurers. He's fighting the Nazis. the threat is never minimized. Hence all the flags.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I wrote off Speilberg when he felt he needed to remove guns from the hands of the military in his ET revision.

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You should have written him off because he feels the need to remove collectible machine guns from the hands of the citizens by buying them up for his ample personal collection.

[frogjerk]

According to information and opinion provided in the article I have a question:

Why does Spielberg hate and vilify the Nazis for the cold blooded murder of 6 million Jews in WWII but he does not hate and vilify the Palestinian terrorists of the brutal cold blooded murder of the athletes of the Israeli 1972 Olympic Team in Munich?

Is Spielberg now under the trance of liberalism/socialism/communism?

[Vision Thing]

Stephen Spielberg: continuing to demonstrate to the world that some of us Jews are really, really stupid.

And full of pathetic liberal self-loathing.

[Casloy]

Let's see, hunting down terrorists and killing them. And that is bad, because.......?

[Borges]

Why does Spielberg hate and vilify the Nazis for the cold blooded murder of 6 million Jews in WWII but he does not hate and vilify the Palestinian terrorists of the brutal cold blooded murder of the athletes of the Israeli 1972 Olympic Team in Munich?

This movie hasn't been made yet. Debbie is famous for making tenuous connections like this. If this movie...when it is made...is sympathetic to the Palestinian terrorists I'll eat my hat. Spielberg has been to Israel numerous times.

[frogjerk]

Snicker. The Indy Jones films show more Nazi flags than American flags.

You are correct.

[Cecily]

Don't forget, current PA president Mahmood Abbas helped to finance the terrorist attack in Munich.

The only hope the Pals have is to get shed of the Arafat gangster generation (including Abbas), and the terrorists who have leached onto them like parasites. Can they ever do it? Do they want to do it, or is it more satisfactory to live with the leeches and thugs in order to keep on hating the Jews?

I was hoping Spielberg's movie was going to be pro-Israel/anti-terrorist, but it sounds as if he plans to take more of an Appease Now line. That is too bad, because I was looking forward to seeing it.

[frogjerk]

This movie hasn't been made yet. Debbie is famous for making tenuous connections like this. If this movie...when it is made...is sympathetic to the Palestinian terrorists I'll eat my hat.

Fair enough...