Posted on 01/26/2006 7:29:12 PM PST by Cornpone
US director Steven Spielberg discusses his controversial new film "Munich," which deals with the aftermath of the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. In an interview with DER SPIEGEL he talks about the moral aspects of dealing with terrorism and responds to critics who claim he's betrayed the Jewish people.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Spielberg, can you remember the hours of the Olympic massacre? Do you know where you were when you heard the terrible news?
Spielberg: Yes, I do. I was watching a "Wide World of Sports" live broadcast from Munich when the news suddenly flashed in, and the well-known sports commentator Jim McKay became a man for the hard facts of world politics. I was glued to the TV for the next few hours. I think it was then that I heard the words "terrorist" and "terrorism" for the first time - they hadn't been part of my vocabulary up to then.
SPIEGEL: Later, you were frequently approached with ideas for a "Munich" film. For a long time you couldn't warm to the material, and kept putting it off. Why?
Spielberg: I declined for several years because I didn't like the scripts and because I considered it too complex a problem. I discussed this film with all kinds of people who mean a lot to me, in the hope that they would talk me out of it, even my parents and my rabbi. But no-one would do me that favor. So my scriptwriter Tony Kushner and myself took on the project as seriously and politically unbiased, and as uncompromisingly as possible.
SPIEGEL: And do you regret it?
Spielberg: Not at all. I am now extremely happy that I had the courage to make "Munich".
(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...
"I would die for Israel" is what every Jihad Bomber pledges too. Somehow I am not impressed as much with words as deeds.
Anyone want to bet that this jerk, self-hating his heritage, would actually ''defend'' Israel in ANY active way?
No effing way, is my vote.
You are certifiable.
Just catch the next El Al flight to Tel Aviv and join the Israeli Army; you might get your chance to die for Israel.
One can only hope.
"The Israelis know that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan River, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die," Clinton said to cheers at a Hadassah children's charity fund-raising dinner this week.
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Check out post #24 (Bill Clinton quote).
Spielberg would die for Israel?
That's ok Steven, your most recent movie already died so you won't have to.
If Spielberg were to produce a film about the Israeli Air Force taking out Saddam's Osirak reactor, he would no doubt paint the Baathists as sympathetic characters.
You know, in the interest of "fairness".
Hamas and the Iranians will make certain that Israel/USA traitor Democrat Steven Spielberg gets his death wish. Only it won't only be Mr. Spielberg getting his throat slit for Israel and because he is simply a Jew. First his wife will be raped, abused and murdered. His children will be promptly slaughtered. And...then, the Hamas, Iranian, Bin Laden terrorists he and his "Traitor/Treason Democrat friends love so much will systematically murder all Jews, then all gays and lesbians, and finally all Blacks. It really is funny that many American Jews, Gays, Lesbians and Blacks don't have a clue that they are supporting their own deaths by their own political actions. What Dummies!!!!
Semingly intelligent people CHEERED at this tripe? What a bunch of gullible people.
Not me. I sent the money I would've spent to see it to Free Republic instead.
Two of my daughters married guys with "arian features" and now I have blond and blue-eyed grandkids. What's to dislike?
An interesting statement. I have classic Aryan shiksa features, yet my mother was Jewish (as was her mother) and I am very proud of this heritage. I can never recall any fellow Jews disliking me for my appearance.
The Jews will die first, and being liberals will not save the fools. I do wish my brethren who are still liberal would wake up and recognize the left is now in bed with Islam and will facilitate their goals at any cost. Enjoy the weekend Glades!
I replied before I read the whole thread..looks like you already had quite a discussion about the comment. Sorry I threw my two cents in, it was really unnecesary.
All avoidable, if we fight the WOT properly, without Karen Hughes and Condi Rice bowing and scraping to the Arabs.
It is so easy to say you'd die for a cause when you know that you will never have to...
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