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...this does not justify Carter's tendency to belittle Israeli fears about the ultimate aims of its neighbors. For example, neither he nor the academics (including Harvard Government Professor Nadav Safran) who helped him research the book call Yasir Arafat to account for his statement to Carter that "the PLO has never advocated the annihilation of Israel." A quick scan of the organization's charter, which rejects the notion that a Palestinian state can coexist with a Jewish one, would have refused this statement in spirit, if not in letter...
Further, Muslims have degraded and humiliated Oriental and Sefardic Jews who are the majority of Jews in Israel for the better part of a millennium. The PLO is merely the modern expression of traditional Islamic Jew-batting. When Blacks express sympathy for former Muslim oppressors who specifically state (usually in Arabic) that they intend at least to become current oppressors of Jews and other non-Muslim minorities. Blacks forfeit any right to sympathy because they have been oppressed...
...News, Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz said: Every spring at Harvard, there is an event, which has become a substitute for the traditional panty raid, where the Third World Community and the Black communities say this is "Stick it to the Jew's week. They bring a PLO speaker or they bring some other opponent of Jewish values and they conduct an event in which they have very little interest except that it really riles up the Jewish community. And we never see the reverse...
...group, Klaus Kinski, is nothing short of eerie. His restrained tension saves the script, which at times is too obvious in its attempt to show how even nice guys can get tough in times of war. For instance, in one scene Kinski is shown simultaneously ordering a PLO girl killed and calling his wife "to check up on family news." His understated brutality--he always seems on the edge of exploding--teamed with his paternal aura save scenes like this from heavy-handedness. In many ways, this is his film...
...scenery is also delightful, with locations switching from Dorset, England to sparkling Mykonos to war-ravaged Beirut. The chilling shots of a PLO training camp bring home the Middle East conflict more sharply than any news report--and that more than justifies the sometimes puzzling plot...