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 ...
Well, apparently, I guess it didn't happen then. I guess you're right. Since you declare it a crock, it must be. (you're an idiot)
Spiegel: Only in principle?
Spielberg: A campaign of vengeance, even though it may contribute towards deterrence and preventing terror, can also have unintended consequences. It can change people, burden them, brutalize them, lead to their ethical decline. ......Violence usually engenders violence.
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Typical leftist tripe. Far from leading to ethical decline, responding appropriately to terrorism (as Israel did following the Munich massacre) is an ethical imperative.
Alouette had it down pat. He knows the score.
Bill Clinton says he would 'fight and die' for Israel Sat Aug 3, 1:22 AM ET
NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Clinton ( news - web sites), who avoided the Vietnam War, told Jewish supporters in Toronto that he would fight and die to protect Israel if Iraq or Iran ever invaded.
"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.
So make him ambassador to Iran and let him prove his worth...
Oh, for the love of ...
Take your meds. Take a deep breath.
I stated my opinion.
Ad hominen attacks are unbecoming of a thinking person.
Yet your opinions remind one of...
yada yada yada...
I'm not going to fight with you. I'm sorry I called you an idiot. It just so happened that you declared MY opinion as a CROCK, which isn't exactly polite either, now is it?
Sorry. I got a bit confused about who was quoting whom about which life.
Prejudice, bias, bigotry is common to ALL humans. Sorry you had those bad moments as a kid.
And, my opinion can sound like yada yada yada, but I'm usually right ;-)
I don't believe him. He's too much of a moral relativist to suffer for any real causes...
Well hell, I'm usually right too...maybe we should start a club.. :p
I honestly think the ONLY things Bill Clinton would fight for are (1)a popularity contest (2)a piece of young tail and (3) the front of the buffet line.
A proud Jewish state that embraced it's biblical history would be worth it but not the "Holland on the Mediterranean" as it exists now?
The United States is an ideal worth dying for, but would Steve say that?
And apparantly he wants all Israelis to did for Israel as well.
In the wise words of General Patton, the objective is not to die for your country, but to make the other guy die for his. If Spielberg would only understand that.
What on earth are you talking about? Unless you have a Hitler mustache and a close physical resemblence, I think you must be delusional.
Seeing as how this a thread about Jewish matters, I have a question which has nothing to do whatsoever with Speilberg.
I bought a box of kosher salt for my rye rolls. These are the big, square salt crystals that you sprinkle on before baking the rolls. BTW, the rolls turned out quite good.
So here's the question: What makes this salt "kosher?" And how is kosher salt different from other salt?
If you're disliked by Jews because of your appearance, you can be sure that these are liberal Ashkenazi Jews (of European descent).
Al Sharpton could call for the extermination of every Jew in New York on Super Bowl Sunday, and these idiot liberal Jews wouldn't even notice because their gaze would be focused on Jimmy Johnson speaking on the NFL Today, and they'd be thinking "man, he's SUCH a "goyishakop".
What a broad brush of ignorance we stroke tonight. Put a lid on that can of imbecility please.
Montezuma died for the Aztecs with a sword up his butt.
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