Terrific movie, with Spielberg politically naive; Kushner self-hating

Rating: 8/10 (23 December 2005)

I bring certain insights regarding the Mideast into this movie i just watched. If you are only interested in the human drama which is so excellently portrayed, my remarks may appear irrelevant to you. Since we are nearing the "next holocaust" for the Jewish (Israeli) people, I must share my insights now. Owning dual citizenship as an American and Israeli, i also share many years of deep research into the history of Israel's place in the Mideast. It is therefore, with resignation that i watched the movie bend its knee to the accepted left-wing viewpoints totally accepted by Tony Kusner (he sits on a board of the most shameful pro-Arab Jews) and to some extent naively assumed as truth by Mr. Spielberg. This is most evident here by the unspoken assumption that the Arabs are freedom fighters for a land "taken by force" by Jews (Israelis). This is the classical BIG LIE of the terrorists and believed by the Left, and it is unfortunate that it is not only kept solidly in place in this movie, but given credence (while the majority of Arabs came to Israel for employment under the Zionist enterprise in the 1930's and 40's, every one now claims his grandfather had orange groves and olive trees taken by the Jews.) While this is common knowledge in Israel, Spielberg falls for it in a major scene of moral- equivalence. The vitriolic, unapologetic Jew hatred so evident in all Arab countries is not deemed important enough to even address, nor deemed as important as pointing out their refugee camps (in reality slum cities kept in place by the Arabs thru the UN) or the fact that there was no "Palestinian movement" even in years prior to 1967, when Jordan and Egypt held the West Bank and Sinai, respectively. In other words, there is not a single character who really speaks for an intelligent, historically accurate. strong nationalist Israeli position. A position that would be regarded as "normal" for any other country.