Hollywood mogul Steven Spielberg's latest film "Munich" focuses on Israel's efforts to avenge the tragic killings of its athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Although the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is ripe with great ideas for potential blockbuster films, Hollywood flicks about the conflict have tended to remain formulaic and dehumanizing.

Spielberg hopes "Munich" will be different, and claims he didn't want to make "a Charles Bronson movie - good guys vs. bad guys and Jews killing Arabs without any context." Critics say Spielberg is too pro-Israel to make a fair film about the conflict.

Imagine for a second it is Opposite Day. Imagine we're in some kind of Twilight Zone parallel universe in which Hollywood gives Arabs, Muslims, and Jews a fair shake and peace a fair chance. What kind of movies about the Middle East would we then be chomping Goobers, Junior Mints, and popcorn to at the local twenty screen multiplex?

Maybe these movies might actually be made by some of the 125 Palestinian kids Spielberg is giving video cameras to document their lives. Perhaps a talented few will go on to become big-time Hollywood directors. Here are ten potential films - all inspired by actual events - that are just waiting for the magic of Spielberg & his wannabes:

1. King David Hotel: The bombing of the King David Hotel, which served as headquarters of the British administration in Palestine, killed 91 Arabs, Jews, and Brits in 1946. Two future Prime Ministers of Israel, David Ben Gurion and Menachem Begin, masterminded the attack. Disguised as Arabs, members of Begin's Irgun placed 350kg of explosives inside the building. In this action-packed thriller, David (Pierce Brosnan) a British officer ordered to hunt down the killers falls for Margaret (Uma Thurman), an American journalist working for Life Magazine. But is Margaret really in love or is she a secret Zionist assassin out to stop David in his tracks?

2. Nakba: A story of innocent love in a time of war and tragedy. Layla (Penelope Cruz) & Salam (Orlando Bloom) are a Romeo & Juliet against the backdrop of the 1948 Nakba, the Palestinian national catastrophe. During the Nakba, over 700,000 Palestinians fled voluntarily & involuntarily their homes. Can their love survive conflict?

3. USS Liberty: When Israeli boats and fighter jets attack the US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty in the middle of the 1967 Six Day War, 34 US servicemen are killed and 173 are wounded. The official word from Washington and Tel Aviv is that the attack was a mistake. But Brad Pitt & Tom Cruise, who play surviving officers from the Liberty, swear vengeance after discovering that the attack was actually part of a plot to start World War III.

4. Sabra & Shatila: It's 1982 and the war in Lebanon rages on. British war correspondent Robert Fisk (Star Wars star Ewan MacGregor) hides in the camps of Sabra & Shatilla, while a Lebanese militia aided and abetted by Israel slaughters thousands of Palestinian refugees. Sahar (Sandra Bullock) is a Palestinian mother determined to protect her family at any cost.

5. Vanunu: A political thriller set in Israel, Australia, Thailand, England, and Italy. "Syriana" star George Clooney plays Mordechai Vanunu, the nuclear technician who exposes Israel's nuclear weapons program and pays the ultimate price. Nicole Kidman plays Cheryl Bentov, the American Mossad agent who seduces and kidnaps him.

6. Hebron: A story of tragedy and torn loyalties. In 1994, Brooklyn Jewish doctor Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslim worshippers in Hebron, killing 29. Palestinian American Mazen Khalili (Tom Hanks), a State Department official assigned to investigate the massacre, struggles with his job responsibilities and his roots. Leah Rabinowitz (Meg Ryan) is a Jewish American journalist who discovers a dark family secret that will change her life forever.

7. Qana: On April 18, 1996, Israeli shelling of a UN Compound that shelters Lebanese refugees kills more than 100 & injures over 300 men, women, and children. Jessica (Angelina Jolie) is a UN worker determined to let the world know what happened after witnessing the atrocity. Yossi (Robert De Niro) is a Mossad agent assigned to kill Jolie.

8. Gaza: Chris Hedges (Harrison Ford), a New York Times correspondent in Jerusalem, files stories from his hotel room. Hedges reaches a turning point when he witnesses Israeli soldiers killing young Palestinian boys for sport, then defies his editors by writing stories that humanize Palestinians. David Schwimmer & Sarah Jessica Parker make cameo appearances as the parents of Muhammad al-Durra, the 12 year old Palestinian boy killed by Israeli troops in 2000.

9. Rachel: Rachel Corrie (Gwyneth Paltrow) is the idealistic young American activist crushed to death by the Israeli army with a Caterpillar bulldozer. Sally Field, well-known for her role in "Not Without My Daughter", plays Rachel's mother.

10. Refuseniks: When a fellow soldier commits suicide after killing an unarmed pregnant Palestinian woman (played by Natalie Portman) in cold blood, two young Israeli soldiers (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) decide that the occupation and the killing of Palestinians is immoral and unjust.

LOL, sorry ms.

For the other readers of this post....

Ask yourselves a few questions. Is what truthorconsequences is doing a positive thing? What are her motives? Why is she stereotyping a whole religion, with the exception of a handful of Jewish writers that might share her same views? What she is doing is equivalent to someone going on a Jewish newsgroup and spreading lies that ALL MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS. She is trying to spread hateful messages. Luckily, like Chomskys divestment campaign that went belly up, most people don't take people like her seriously. It's still important for people to combat this sort of hatred.

Being Jewish has, unfortunately, never precluded fealty to anti-Semitism. In fact, many of the most brutal polemical assaults against Jews and Judaism have been accomplished at the hands of their former co-religionists. Again, don't fool yourself into believing that even a small percentage, of the millions of Jews worldwide, share his views (Chomsky). Chomsky has his followers, and unfortunately, many of them are the same people that spend their free time googling for information about Holocaust denial. Fun discussion. Bye sexy! :D

"I don't know what it will take to knock sense into people like you who honestly believe there are people who make this stuff up, who have that much time on their hands to try to dishonor anyone for the simple reason that they just don't like these people or something. Please! Don't flatter yourself. People are far too selfish to devote that much time to anything unless they have good reason, to expose the truth."

So lets understand my sweetie's point. It would be foolish of "people like me" to think that people have so much time on their hands to uncover the "truth" about bad jews. But the very idea that throngs of Jews have plenty of time to sit around and devise ways to cover up Jewish wrongdoings is not foolish.

I donít understand the humor of this ìten movieî article. Firstly Hollywood was founded by secular jews ñ in the main eastern European immigrant. Hollywood is not run by jews, it was established by jews and is now run by all sorts of people ñ among them are arab stockholders too. Surely it is absurd to think that Hollywood productions will portray events through the prism of islam ñ with no historical or cultura bias. More interesting to me is the obsession that exists in the middle east with Hollywood. We all love Hollywood deep down, just like we all drink coke even though we know it rots our teeth. What about all those shows that are arab remakes of Hollywood productions: isnít there an arab version of the ìNannyî!!

In light of the movie production in Iran about the ìElders of Zionî (which tried to present a pamphlet created by the tsarist secret polic in Russia as a factual historical event for the brainwashed Iranian population) - I think Spielberg is a very liberal intellectual.

This particular issue/desire has an easy resolution..

Several of the wealthier muslim nations, Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar, etc, pool the required amount of capital and buy a movie studio, Tv network, distribution network, etc. and fund their own movies & tv shows.

Given the enormous propaganda value of these media, I'm surprised it hasn't been done long ago!!

Whoever took that topic off of munich and started talking about religion ,,,,this here is something interesting everyone should read and try to understand:

Look at all the countries and religions,,,,,,,,, America ,,,Russia,,,france,,,spain,,,,germany,,,,england,,,,,huge countries,,,all christain and catholic,,,Then u have ,,iran ,,,turkey,,iraq,,,,kazakstan,,,,Egypt,,,,Syria,,,azerbajan,,,afganstan,,,,,and so on,,,,,,, huge countries all muslim,,,Then you have,,,,china ,,,,korea,,,,japan,,,India,,,,and so on huge countries buddist,,,,and the jews the source of all religions,,,,the first religion to speak out about 1 g-d having to pay for it in blood all their life,,,,, In 1942 to ask any german or Russian soldier and say that that the torah ,The jewish bible says that the jews will return to isreal, and claim their land, they would of laughed and said these jews will soon all be dead,,,,jews were getting killed rapidly and it looked as if Germanys,,,dream was going to come true,,,but no,,that would of never happened,,,because every tyrant who rised up to destroy innocent lives has fallen ,,and their was a matter of time till it happened.and right after the war these beaten up jews from the war and holocaust return to a small land of isreal around all the muslim and arab countries and biuld a land,,,Amongst all and win wars ,,,was a puree miracle of g-d,,,blessed be he the almighty one who looks after us blessed be his name forever and ever. It was from the knowledge of the jewish bible the torah ,,,that jesus(yehoshua)and his followers teachings
were passed down to later be formed to Catholic and cristianity,,,,,it were the teachings of Abraham,,,,passed down to thru moses,,,,that mahamed spread to his followers,,,,,,(most muslim names are taken from jewish leaders) and yet isreal the only jewish land in the world that belongs to the jews from thousands of years before their were any other religions is always being taken from them.


Hezbloaal made a massive attack by kidnapping civilians and soldiers hitting isreal with rockets,,,then when isreal retaliates ,,,it is the jewish ppl who get overlooked,,,simple: because the workld hates the jews and always did becassue of the jealousy of the knowledge and the teachings that came from us and cause of what we have ,,when we have it.

I heard a very good argument between arab and isreali leaders in the sixtys,,,,, The arab leader said this country belongs to us the arabs,,,the jewish leader replied ,,,he said lemme tell u something,,,,when moses was going up mount Sinai he seen a lake so he took his clothes off and decided to bath himself,,,,,,,while he was in the water the arabs came and stole all of his clothes,,, the arab leader stood up and scram what arabs their were no arabs back then,,,,the jewish president looked at him and said thatís exactly what I was tryng to tell you.


< Jews stole land

By the way jews never stole land they won the war and got that land, then gave it back to you anyway the arab nations were ungratefull ,,we gave so much land away yet they want more,,,

< raped wives

and jews never raped any arab women,,,,u have never seen it with your eyes or on a tape i garauntee u that.

< Do Jewish kids know their state was created by terrorists who became prime ministers?

And do arab families tell their children,,,,that their knowledge came from the jews that most of the names and teachings they are from the jews that yishmael was the son of a jew Yitzhak.


<war-making and enslavement has been done by Christians and Jews


Inslavemen by jews????? since when were u slaves to the jews,,,u are not aslaves the whole middle east is Arabic,u have always lived in the middle east in big countries,,,as big countries u were never enslaved by jews ever!

<led others to gas chambers<

Led other to gas chambers,,,do u even know what u are talking about,,,no jew has led another jew to a gas chameber ,,,jews were captured by the germans and led into gas chambers get your facts right.

<the Jewish Israeli shoots Palestinian schoolgirls<

The only palastinian school girl A soldier would ever shoot is the one with a bomb strapped to her body

<because "yaweh" tells them to

And donít ever discriminate,,,,g-ds name ,,,we have the true names of g-d before u existed,,,,,u havenít seen 1 jew discrinate g-ds name on this site whether in muslim or Christian.


u want to talk about women,,u treat ure woman like sh*t, I have seen Arabic women who got away from afaganstan ,,iran,,iraq ,,,to America,,who breath now they are so happy the left the cruelness of their men,,,,,beating a woman with no power to fight back is cowardly.




Let me tell u something else
,,,u are brain washed like a lot of other arabs,,,ive seen with my own eyes arab families takin money to send their children for the cause of terror,,,jews donít murder their childern they love them and save them,,,,it is the palastinian nation who encourages their children to explode themselves. And no one murders their daughters,,,,u get brainwashed with a lot of false information,,,what u forget is that isreal never got a break from the arabs,,,,they hated the jews from the start never let them live in isreal ,,,suicide bombers have killed isreali women and children for years,,,and when isreal retalitlies,,,,,the world hates them,,,the arabs start to cry and scream the jews are murderes,,when they started it all,,they plan it out,,against the jews,,but this will soon end g-d sees everything and when the time comes the world will see the truth,, ,,, Isreal has been givin to us by g-d bless be his name for all eternity(baruch shem kevod malchutay leyolam voyed) before the muslims or any other relgion existed and it will be with us forever.