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Terror, suicide bombings are explored
in books, TV shows, plays and films.

1024710

Tom Tugend

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Los Angeles
our years after the terrorist
attacks on New York's World
Trade Center, films, television,
plays and books are just beginning
to grapple seriously with the phe-
nomena of suicide bombings and
terrorism.
The lag time between a cata-
clysmic experience and its absorp-
tion into popular culture is hardly
surprising.
The greatest novel about World
War I, All Quiet on the Western Front,
was written 11 years after the
armistice.
Popular worldwide perception of
the Holocaust has been shaped most TV, Too
graphically by Schindler's List, which
Television viewers will get their
came out almost half a century after first sustained, if fictional, look at
Hitler's fall. Though there have been
Muslim terror in December, when
several impressive attempts, some
the 10-part Sleeper Cell debuts on
critics feel the definitive books or
the Showtime cable channel. Eerily
movies about World War II and
reminiscent of the British-born ter-
Vietnam have yet to appear.
rorists who bombed London's sub-
An initial serious cinematic foray way system in July, the Muslim cell
into exploring the mind and moti-
in the TV series is based in Los
vation of the Muslim suicide
Angeles and its hit list includes Los
bomber comes not from Hollywood, Angeles International Airport, the
which has been timid about tackling UCLA campus, Rose Bowl Stadium
Sept. 11 and its implications, but
and the San Onofre nuclear facili-
from the Palestinian-Dutch-
ties.
German-French co-production
The cell is led by the brutal yet
Paradise Now, scheduled to open
personable Farik, played by the
next month in Detroit.
Israeli actor Oded Fehr. To heighten
The film tracks the recruitment of the irony, Farik operates in the
two young Palestinian suicide
undercover guise of an observant
bombers — their motivations,
Jew, who regularly attends a West
preparations, video testaments and
Los Angeles synagogue.
ultimate hesitations — but stops
Farik's sleeper cell, however, has
short of divulging whether they
been infiltrated by a black Muslim
carry out the bus bombing they're
and undercover FBI agent, Darwyn,
planning in Jerusalem.
played by Michael Ealy of
Other movies, both mainstream
Barbershop fame.
and independent, are starting to
The plot and cast thus offer up a
explore a world in which the enemy
"good" Muslim as counterweight to
is not a clear-cut uniformed pres-
the "bad" Muslims, and the produc-
ence but the shadowy, even invisible, ers have further hedged their politi-
suicide bomber. Steven Spielberg
cally correct bets by making most of
calls this growing dread in Western
the Islamic terrorists Europeans and
nations the "paranoia of the
Americans, rather than Arabs or

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unknown." His recent The War of the
Worlds is infused with it.
As fear of the unknown spreads,
so do conspiracy theories to explain
the unexplainable. A historical
example is The Protocols of the
Elders of Zion, a venerable forgery
that posits a global Jewish conspira-
cy to dominate the world.
The long-discredited theory has
been brought up-to-date by blaming
"Jews and Zionists" for plotting Sept.
11. In his upcoming film, The
Protocols of Zion, also scheduled to
open here in November, director
Marc Levin explores the old and
new hatred and zealotry underlying
the revival of the worn canard.

October 13 2005 'TN