Vengeance, Barbarism and Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds
Society + Culture
By Gilad Atzmon
Saturday, 19 September 2009
Once again Quentin Tarantino has managed to produce the impossible: ‘an anti Holocaust film’. The Holocaust film genre can be grasped as a realistic cinematic representation of the ‘Jewish victim’ (innocent and harmless individual) confronted with the ultimate brutal bureaucratic murderous ideology known as Nazism.
Envoys to the United Nations' cultural body, Unesco, are set to cast their ballots in the third round of elections for a new director-general, with Egypt's controversial candidate dividing opinion.
George Mitchell, the US envoy to the Middle East, has returned to Washington after failing to secure a compromise deal for renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
The UN official investigating allegations of election fraud in Afghanistan's presidential poll has said his team will not be rushed, despite increasing frustrations about the delay in declaring a final result.
Seven former directors of the US Central Intelligence Agency have urged the president to abandon a criminal investigation into interrogation techniques used against terror suspects during the Bush administration.
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Envoys to the United Nations' cultural body, Unesco, are set to cast their ballots in the third round of elections for a new director-general, with Egypt's controversial candidate dividing opinion.
