Munich, 1972
Last Saturday I went to the movies and watched Steven Spielberg’s latest movie “München” which depicts the events during and after the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.
For the historically challenged: in 1972 a group of Palestinian rebels tried to kidnap the “Israeli” olympic team in order to trade them in for Palestinians arrested in “Israeli” jails - a deal that was rejected by Golda Meir, the “Israeli” premier minister back then (who was, in the movie, portrayed as a nice ‘ole lady that in fact she never was). The plot was foiled, all eleven athletes were killed (most of them accidentally by German police forces) and some of the Palestinian rebels as well. Others were jailed and later released or traded in for “hostages” (some call them “trading goods”) taken elsewhere. It’s sad to see that those Palestinians and “Israelis” had to die but as I learnt from western media they can be considered “collateral damage“.
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