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To: Sully- who wrote (16685)	12/28/2005 1:43:36 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

The Last Word on Spielberg's "Munich"... Power Line ...goes to the Palestinian terrorist who organized the 1972 massacre, via Reuters: <<< The Palestinian mastermind of the Munich Olympics attack in which 11 Israeli athletes died said on Tuesday he had no regrets and that Steven Spielberg's new film about the incident would not deliver reconciliation. Mohammed Daoud planned the Munich attack on behalf of PLO splinter group Black September, but did not take part and does not feature in the film. He voiced outrage at not being consulted for the thriller and accused Spielberg of pandering to the Jewish state. >>> Daoud helpfully explained the philosophy that guided the Munich terrorists, which somehow eluded Spielberg, even though the terrorists have expressed it many times: Whether a pianist or an athlete, any Israeli is a soldier. Which is to say that all citizens of Israel are fit subjects for genocide. It seems a bit pointless to make a movie about Palestinian terrorism, and Israel's response to it, without mentioning that inconvenient fact. powerlineblog.com today.reuters.com

To: Sully- who wrote (16685)	1/10/2006 1:52:58 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

"Munich" and revenge by Dennis Prager townhall.com Jan 10, 2006 Nearly every review of the Steven Spielberg film "Munich," especially those that are sympathetic to the film's "stop the cycle of violence" message, describes the movie as a story about Israeli "revenge" for the Palestinian murder of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. In so doing they reveal their instinctive ambivalence, if not antagonism, toward what Israel did: sending out a hit team to kill those involved in the Munich massacre. So let's deal with this whole question of revenge and the widespread assumption -- from the secular Left to the religious Right -- that revenge is by definition morally wrong. Revenge is defined by the Cambridge University dictionary as "harm done to someone as a punishment for harm that they have done to you." Now, in general, especially in personal life, this is not a good policy. If someone steps on your toe, it is not wise or good to do the same to him. However, the desire to see identical harm inflicted on the evildoer is not only not wrong, it is at the essence of an empathetic, moral and just heart and conscience. What sort of person reads what a torturer did to an innocent victim and doesn't want to see that torturer suffer? Those who have no desire to see such people suffer commensurate with the evil they have inflicted have blunted the natural human desire for justice. And talking about justice, what sort of justice would it have been for Israel not to seek the death of the murderers of their athletes? Would the world be a finer, kinder, let alone more just, place if all those murderers had been allowed to live? That argument is never advanced in the screenplay of "Munich." Instead, all the arguments put into the mouths of the Israeli hit team are about "Jewish blood is not cheap" and other nationalistic -- as opposed to moral -- defenses. This is because the chief writer, Tony Kushner, is a man of the Left; and the Left has lost its hatred of evil, its ability to recognize evil and, most of all, any desire to wage war against it. That's why the movie is a paean to "stop the cycle of violence." Its leftist writers and well-intentioned but naive director reduce wars against perpetrators of evil to "seeking revenge" or becoming "no better than their enemies," and other cliches that literally demoralize wars fought by good societies. The same arguments are given by the same people against executing murderers: "When we kill murderers, we are no better than them." As if killing Timothy McVeigh was morally equivalent to his murder of innocents in Oklahoma City. Of course, none of this means that all revenge is moral. When revenge is unjust -- if, for example, the Israelis had murdered a group of Palestinian athletes -- it is immoral. But what could be more just, more moral, than Israel targeting only the murderers for death? Though the film attempts to portray the Israeli response as morally useless -- with "cycle of violence" and "it accomplishes nothing since they just substitute a new terrorist for the one last killed" arguments -- the film is nevertheless a tremendous compliment to the Israelis. First, it shows how careful the Israelis were to kill only the murderers (though the Israeli hit team did in fact kill one innocent Moroccan in Norway, which is not shown in the film). Second, while the Israelis are constantly asking themselves if they are doing what is right, there is not a hint of moral self-inquiry among the Palestinians. For good reason. So while the film is dedicated to the proposition that men involved in killing murderers become themselves morally inferior beings and therefore pay a great personal price for their war on evil, the facts of the film, as opposed to the made-up dialogue, suggest quite the opposite: That the world is a better place when revenge and justice are the same. Dennis Prager is a radio talk show host, author, and contributing columnist for Townhall.com. Copyright © 2006 Creators Syndicate, Inc. townhall.com

To: Sully- who wrote (16685)	1/30/2006 10:05:32 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Munich Mastermind: 'I Regret Nothing' By Captain Ed on War on Terror Captain's Quarters One of the first terrorist attacks to achieve global attention came in 1972 at the Munich Olympics, when Palestinian terrorists held 11 Israeli athletes hostage for two days, trying to pressure Israel into freeing captured comrades. The incident ended tragically, with all 11 Israelis murdered by their captors at the airport during a botched attempt to rescue them. The man who organized the terrorist attack, Mohammad Oudeh, told a German that he doesn't have any remorse for his acts: <<< A former Palestine Liberation Organization guerrilla who was one of the masterminds of the 1972 terrorist attack on the Munich Olympics in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed said he "regrets nothing" about the incident. Speaking to Germany's Spiegel TV in an interview released Saturday, Mohammed Oudeh, better known as Abu Daoud, said it was up to Palestinians to "fight as long as it takes Israel to recognize our rights." "I regret nothing," of the Munich attacks, he said, according to a transcript of the interview released ahead of its broadcast. "You can only dream that I would apologize." >>> Abu Daoud, as he is also known, tried to tell the Germans that they never intended on killing the Israelis, but that seems at odds with the known facts of the attack. They opened fire on them in the Olympic compound, and at the airport they had ample opportunity to release the athletes instead of shooting them point-blank while restrained. Oudeh also claimed that the people killed later by the Mossad for their complicity in the attack were all innocent. One suspects that truth and Oudeh are not exactly close company. It does shine a different light on the Spielberg film Munich, which struggled to portray the terrorists as troubled human beings. Oudeh reminds us that Spielberg missed by a mile in his analysis. captainsquartersblog.com news.yahoo.com