Posted on 12/19/2005 1:17:51 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl
This hour's discussion is focused on Steven Spielberg's film "Munich" and how the film, via Tony Kushner ("Angels in America") suggests not only that the terrorists are sympathetic characters, but that they may even have been innocent.
Peyser of the NY Post equates Spielberg with the president of Iran. Is this going too far? Kushner, the writer, says Israel is a mistake that "f-ed people over." Why is it that Hollywood's (and English theater's) apparent agenda is decidedly anti-Israel?
"Why is it that Hollywood's (and English theater's) apparent agenda is decidedly anti-Israel?"
Wait - I thought that the belief was that Hollywood was "run by da Jews"?
It's hard to keep up with lunatics.
Spielberg is pathetic if this movie is as bad and fictitious as it sounds. I remember "Gideon's Sword" from the early 80's.
Yes, that is one of the great mysteries-- if the media is run by the Jews, why do the major networks, newspapers, and Hollywood hate Israel?
Hollywood for some time looks to other markets to sell their wares. They are just giving their new public what they want to see. Expect more of the same.
It will bomb at the box office.
Don't forget -- many Jews are secular and very liberal. Goes with pro-Palestine.
Medved says there's a fictitous scene in the film-- as in, it never happened, Kushner-- of the Israelis and the terrorists ending up in the same safe house together, drawing guns, but then talking it out, I guess.
Your forgetting "Schindler's List", which at least presaged the birth of Israel. How Spielberg could do both of these is difficult to imagine. Oh, now I understand: Schindler's list was done in 1993... Clinton was president... It's Bush's fault!!!! We used to support Israel during Clinton's Administration, but now they must be the equivalent of terrorists because they embrace and support Bush's middle east initiatives.
The film is a fictionalization of the events as was the 1984 book it's based on.
There's a caller on right now who is sincerely confused about the different between a suicide/homocide bomber who blows up civilians at a pizza store and an Israel tank tearing down a bomber's home. Very confusing.
any net feed?
The same 'cycle of violence' blather.
Those murdering bastards were never properly punished. Instead the supreme mastermind, Yasser Arafat (yimach shemo vezikhro!) became a hero to the world and got the Nobel Peace Prize, and more people who were in on it are around today running the "Palestinian Authority." Every one responsible for that disgusting atrocity should be killed regardless of how much time has passed or whatever shameful deals were made to let them walk.
As I said in a previous post, Jewish Leftists are pulling out the stops right now, for whatever reason. Spielberg is such a hypocritical bastard. He became a hero for documenting the Holocaust, and now he completely ignores the denial of that event in the Arab/moslem world and jumps in bed with Israel-hating homosexual Leftie Kushner.
If, G-d forbid, another great Holocaust were to occur in our day perpetrated by the Arab/moslem world and cheered by the Left, do you imagine he or any other Jewish liberal in Hollywood would make a documentary lamenting it?
Where's the star-struck, Hollywood-worshipping, Baptist-bashing Rabbi Marvin Hier while the president of Iran is denying the Holocaust? What's he doing, monitoring Billy Graham's e-mails???
We just need to understand the terrorists.(/sarcasm)
The greatest downfall comes from within. The worst Anti-Jews are Jews themselves. The biggest haters of America are Americans. The most rabid anti-christians are christians.
I wouldn't call the Clintoon's makeout sessions with the Arafats supporting Israel, but it is interesting the point out the different political climate. While Israel is positively regarded at the end of Schindler's List, the film is not about Israel. If the film had continued, to show how Jews had to fight to defend the existance of Israel, then we probably would have seen a similar "both sides are naughty" "cycle of violence" story from Spielberg.
I can't agree with your comments about Rabbi Hier.
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