However, language, tone and the protocols of debate matter.
Turkey responded with fury and the protocols were endangered.
In the clash between the conventions of the book and the protocols of the screen, the screen will prevail.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Küntzel goes on, was a crucial distributor of Arabic translations of "Mein Kampf" and the "Protocols".
In 1966, he published "Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
"I think it's very important to understand that good friends don't worry about the symbols and the conventions and the protocols," Mr. Obama said.
As articles of faith go, this one falls somewhere between a belief in Santa Claus and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
The texts of all the Geneva Conventions and the protocols can be found on the Web site of the International Committee for the Red Cross: www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/CONVPRES.nsf/CONVPRES
The texts of all the Geneva Conventions and the Protocols can be found on the Web site of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Conspiracies in general, and the Protocols in particular, have been recurrent themes in Eco's work, notably in his second novel, Foucault's Pendulum, where as a joke three nondescript book editors concoct a grand conspiracy that comes to take over their lives.
This is why documents like the memorandums for which Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" continued to be believed even after they had been exposed as forgeries, and why the Moscow Trials were defended even by people who knew that the "confessions" were fraudulent.
