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ou've got to wonder whether

the CIA ever would have been
given a role in the recent Wye
Middle East Peace Accords
had Binyamin Netanyahu or anyone on
his staff first seen The Siege.
There's a lesson for Israel to learn in
this movie: Those whom you covertly
train in the skills of inflicting sudden
death and mass destruction may some-
day come back to haunt you with the
lessons they so well learned under your
tutelage.
The film, directed by Edward Zwick
(Glory, Courage Under Fire), begins with
the U.S. military clandestinely kidnap-
ping an Arab sheik who has been identi-
fied as the man behind the bombing of
a U.S. Marine base. Sound familiar?
The sheik's followers demand his
release. To make their point, they innov-
atively target New York City instead of
Tel Aviv. Heard that somewhere before?
The Hamas-like terrorists blow up a
city bus filled with hostages, kill a good-
ly share of New York's movers and shak-
ers by detonating a bomb in a Broadway
theater during a charity event and drive
a bomb-laden van into a New York fed-
eral office building,
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killing 600.

In addition, they seize a group of
schoolchildren. But the kids are fortu-
nate because Anthony Hubbard (Denzel
Washington), head of the Joint
FBI/NYPD Terrorism Task Force, is on
the scene and is a crack shot.
In his efforts, Hubbard is aided by
Lebanese-American FBI agent Frank
Haddad (Tony Shalhoub) and under-
cover CIA operative Elise Kraft (Annette
Bening), both of whom are torn
between their official duties and their
personal angst.
Arab terrorists aren't the only nemesis
wreaking havoc upon the Big Apple.
Enter General William Devereaux
(Bruce Willis), an American Army gen-
eral whose troops are occupying
Brooklyn, where most of New York's
Arab population is concentrated.
Here's where The Siege veers from
taut action thriller to a candidate for
apres-cinema, philosophical discussion at
Starbucks.
Willis and his crack troops impose
martial law, seal off Brooklyn and begin
going door-to-door, where they seize all
young Arab men — and some older
ones, too. The Arabs are detained in
makeshift concentration camps in a sta-
dium on Riker's Island.
Now the images, ones retained in our
collective memories, become familiar.
The Nazi round-up of Jews during the