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"I Would Die For Israel" (so says Steven Spielberg)
DER SPIEGEL ^ | 26 January 2006 | DER SPIEGEL

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Germany; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hollyweird; isael; israel; munich; spielberg; stevenspielberg; waronterror
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To: Cornpone

"I would die for Israel" is what every Jihad Bomber pledges too. Somehow I am not impressed as much with words as deeds.


61 posted on 01/26/2006 9:39:19 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Hypervigilant
Talk is, as always, cheap.

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.

62 posted on 01/26/2006 9:39:56 PM PST by SAJ
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To: 302damnfast
As a person who is normally disliked by Jews on sight for my arian features

You are certifiable.

63 posted on 01/26/2006 9:46:22 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: Cornpone

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.


64 posted on 01/26/2006 9:47:39 PM PST by no dems ("99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name." Steven Wright)
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To: Timmy
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.

OMG

65 posted on 01/26/2006 9:56:43 PM PST by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
Check out post #24 (Bill Clinton quote)

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

66 posted on 01/26/2006 9:58:22 PM PST by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: doug from upland; Mia T

Check out post #24 (Bill Clinton quote).


67 posted on 01/26/2006 9:59:01 PM PST by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: Cornpone

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".


68 posted on 01/26/2006 10:11:03 PM PST by mkjessup ("The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank" -Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott - NCC1701)
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To: Palpatine

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!!!!


69 posted on 01/26/2006 10:17:01 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: Cornpone
Well, Steve, to steal a line from "A Few Good Men".....

Pick up a rifle, and stand a post
70 posted on 01/26/2006 10:39:35 PM PST by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
Yeah, but can he make a documentary about them killing his wife, etc., so that he wins another Oscar, I mean, there are younger directors coming up in competition with him and they have greater Huzpah and Steven is middle aged and the press just doesn't talk about him anymore unless he pays them or they are personal friends and....

In other words, it all a shtick because he's a phony bastard to begin with.
71 posted on 01/26/2006 10:57:31 PM PST by Blind Eye Jones
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To: Timmy

Semingly intelligent people CHEERED at this tripe? What a bunch of gullible people.


72 posted on 01/27/2006 3:10:08 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience. T)
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To: 302damnfast
My problems a little different. I'm the guy the Asians don't like, but only when they run Chinese buffets. "You no come back! You no come back!" What the hell? I'm dyslexic and I thought the sign said: "You can eat all"...*sigh*
73 posted on 01/27/2006 3:36:52 AM PST by Caipirabob
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To: lawnguy
Is anyone actually going to this movie?

Not me. I sent the money I would've spent to see it to Free Republic instead.

74 posted on 01/27/2006 4:02:42 AM PST by DejaJude (Admiral Clark said, "Our mantra today is life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!")
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To: 302damnfast
As a person who is normally disliked by Jews on sight for my arian features

Two of my daughters married guys with "arian features" and now I have blond and blue-eyed grandkids. What's to dislike?

75 posted on 01/27/2006 5:40:12 AM PST by Alouette (Psalm of the Day: 119)
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To: 302damnfast

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.


76 posted on 01/27/2006 6:51:21 AM PST by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: GladesGuru

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!


77 posted on 01/27/2006 6:55:20 AM PST by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: 302damnfast

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.


78 posted on 01/27/2006 7:00:13 AM PST by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

All avoidable, if we fight the WOT properly, without Karen Hughes and Condi Rice bowing and scraping to the Arabs.


79 posted on 01/27/2006 7:02:43 AM PST by veronica (....."send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, Marines never do.")
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To: Cornpone

It is so easy to say you'd die for a cause when you know that you will never have to...


80 posted on 01/27/2006 7:03:46 AM PST by WV Mountain Mama (Here we go Steelers, here we go!!! One for the thumb!!!)
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