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...following a tip-off from a former film club director, and discovered two dusty film cans containing a 16mm copy of the original. Felix-Didier took the material to Berlin to have film experts, amongst them Rother and Wilkening, confirm its authenticity before exclusively allowing the German weekly Die Zeit to make the findings public. Indeed, it has subsequently come to light that a long version of the film was first sent to Buenos Aires back in 1928 at the request of the Terra film distribution company. A film critic named Manuel Peña Rodríguez obtained...
JOSEF JOFFE PUBLISHER AND EDITOR OF THE GERMANY WEEKLY DIE ZEIT...
...That generational shift is notable. Many Germans raised in the 1960s, caught up in the backlash against their parents' involvement with National Socialism, tacitly sympathized with the RAF's stated goals, though rarely with their tactics. Films such as Die Bleierne Zeit (1981) and Stammheim (1986) depicted the terrorists as victims of their times. In the 1990s, a Hamburg-based designer even created a T shirt with the slogan prada-meinhof. Since Sept. 11, such radical chic has lost its allure...
...conquest by the Assyrians nearly 3,000 years ago. The story of the Middle East for years has been, in many ways, an endless pageant of the self-defeating. ''We were in a different time zone 40 years ago,'' says Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian professor of philosophy at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. As the Zionist immigration came to critical mass, especially after World War II and the Holocaust, when Israel became the haven for 687,000 new immigrants with no homes elsewhere in the world, the Arabs' alarm rose to lethal levels. ''We found ourselves paying...
...Israelis, who had previously assaulted the Palestinian settlements from the air, soon encountered troubling problems closer to home. Palestinian students staged a demonstration at Bir Zeit University, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Restive Israeli troops fired on them, killing two youths and wounding twelve. The next day Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian near the city of Nablus after he threw stones at them. Once again, tension in the West Bank was running high...