Kushner defends 'Munich', proves himself more eloquent than Rob Schneider

In the LAT Sunday Current section, Tony Kushner eloquently defended ‘Munich’ (which he co-wrote with Eric Roth) against various ideological charges: that it’s anti-Semitic, anti-Arab, a fabrication of history, and so forth. I agree with everything he says, though I’m sure somebody’s going to pounce on this:

In the film, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is presented not as a matter of religion versus religion, or sanity versus insanity, or good versus evil or civilization versus barbarism or Judeo-Christian culture versus Muslim culture, but rather as a struggle over territory, over geography, over home.

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