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...Arab world. They are by and large quite secular. They are overwhelmingly Shia which is different from the Wahabis of the peninsula, and they don't bring the sensitivity of having the holy cities of Islam being on their territory. We're seeing today how much the people of Poland and Central and Eastern Europe appreciate what the United States did to help liberate them from the tyranny of the Soviet Union. I think you're going to see even more of that sentiment in Iraq...
...Gibson's film is accused of fanning hatred against the Jews; Spielberg's, which won the Best Picture Oscar and six others in 1994, dramatizes the toxic effects of that hatred, and the ability of one man--the gentile factory owner Oskar Schindler--to save 1,200 Jews in Poland during the Nazi Occupation. The two movies are kin, though, as serious, violent historical dramas made against great odds--and as personal testaments that, their directors have said, transformed them as artists and men. On the new DVD of Schindler's List (Universal Video; $26.98), Spielberg declares, "It changed...
...film remains a potent document, in gritty, memorial black-and-white, of malevolence and heroism portrayed in the starkest terms. Schindler (Liam Neeson) is a reluctant savior. "He didn't come to Poland to save Jews," survivor Leon Leyson says in Voices from the List. "He came to Poland to make his fortune." Keeping his Jewish workers alive was at first just good business, then a matter of stubborn pride and finally a humanist crusade for which his beneficiaries are ever grateful. "He was life, he was maybe future," says Rena Finder...
...when he witnessed the Poles preparing to invade Czechoslovakia. From 1972 to '81, he provided some 35,000 pages of documents to the CIA, intelligence that an agency analyst said "virtually defined our knowledge" of the Warsaw Pact, and may have helped prevent a Soviet invasion of Poland...
GLOBAL LIFE A20 Poland's unexpected pleasures...