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Memories...

Friday, March 24, 2006

Those of u who havent watched MUNICH yet, go catch it before it ends. It realli is a great and disturbing show! Steven Spelbierg is really a fantastic director.

I even went to check the real details of the events..and the movie has followed quite accurately the real facts..

A great movie leaves u thinking about deeper issues..that is what makes it enthralling and disturbing...

For those who are going to miss this movie, go get the vcd or dvd yeah..wont regret wan..and highly recommended for all PS and History majors! :)

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The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September – a group within Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization.

The hostage-takers eventually murdered 11 Israeli athletes, nine of them during a botched German rescue attempt, and one German police officer. Five of the eight kidnappers were also killed by police during the rescue attempt, with the three captured surviving hostage-takers later being released by Germany following the hijacking of a Lufthansa airliner.

In response to the attack, Israel planned and carried out the killings of a number of individuals who were said to have been responsible. Although it was believed that two of the three surviving hostage-takers were killed as part of these reprisals, some recent evidence appears to indicate otherwise.

Simon Reeve wrote that the Munich massacre was one of the most significant terror attacks of recent times, one that "thrust the Palestinian cause into the world spotlight, set the tone for decades of conflict in the Middle East, and launched a new era of international terrorism"

The Israeli mission later became known as Operation Wrath of God or Mivtza Elohim. Reeve quotes General Aharon Yariv — who, he writes, was the general overseer of the operation — as stating that after Munich the Israeli government felt it had no alternative but to exact justice:

"We had no choice. We had to make them stop, and there was no other way ... we are not very proud about it. But it was a question of sheer necessity. We went back to the old biblical rule of an eye for an eye ..."

"I approach these problems not from a moral point of view, but, hard as it may sound, from a cost-benefit point of view. If I’m very hard-headed, I can say, what is the political benefit in killing this person? Will it bring us nearer to peace? Will it bring us nearer to an understanding with the Palestinians or not?"

"..In most cases I don’t think it will. But in the case of Black September we had no other choice and it worked. Is it morally acceptable? One can debate that question. Is it politically vital? It was."

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Vengeance can blind people indeed.

The Incredible Hock