Posted on 12/13/2005 6:53:28 AM PST by Witch-king of Angmar
As the Monitor noted back in July, “alarm bells went off like crazy when Steven Spielberg hired Tony Kushner last year to rewrite the script of a movie about Israel’s clandestine — and lethal — response to the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.”
The Monitor found cause for concern because Kushner is a radical leftist whose views on the Middle East are hardly distinguishable from the hateful screeds found on the most rabidly anti-Israel websites.
(Excerpt) Read more at thejewishpress.com ...
Speilberg's next movie is about Tookie Williams putting 4 terminally ill people out of their misery.
It's entirely another thing to state your hatred, like Kushner, for America. If you do that, you are my enemy. Kushner, Stone, Moore and a swarm of other America haters are my enemies.
It was an accident. And I have no doubt that our people killed a few innocent civilians fighting the "cold" war. Should we not have fought that one? Remember, there was no declared war going on.
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No, an accident is when you slip on ice. This was a mis-calculation that resulted in a murder.
Thanks, buddy.
Good one! :)
Reeve shows that the Israeli revenge operations were undertaken out of disgust after it became clear that the Europeans, particularly the West Germans, were not interested in punishing the surviving Palestinian terrorists and their "managers," such as the so-called Red Prince, Ali Hassan Salameh. It's really good read and gets to the root of the matter without coddling Arafat, his Fatah movement, and the Palestinian terrorists operating in Europe during the 1970s.
He already jumped it with AI.
Hah?
I thought that was me!
Brian(Boru-stein of the Bog of) Allen!
In the long run, such tragedies are not avoidable. Sooner or later something goes wrong and innocent people die, whether you're talking about hunting down terrorists, testing new airplanes, or just driving through an intersection enough times to be the unlucky bastard who's there when someone runs a red light.
Whenever military action is undertaken, no matter how justified, it is all but a mathematical certainty that innocent people will die. All we can do at that point is:
a) Make sure we are justified in taking military action;
b) Do whatever we can to prevent/minimize the death of innocents without unduly jeopardizing the mission;
c) Accept whatever deaths of innocents do occur as the tragic cost of doing business;
d) Don't look back.
Anything else is overthinking, second-guessing, or emotional/political grandstanding.
You both made very good points.
How is a miscalculation not an accident?
But I will always be grateful to Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, and along with Tom Hanks, finally giving us the WWII Museum. At least he has done some good things.
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This was not a military action it was a (supposedly) well-researched, planned hit that did not have to be made at that moment. And, it was avoidable.
Spielberg and the rest of Hollyweird is crying about empty theatres and reduced dvd sales. What do they expect when they try to put this crap over on us.
They better find some patriotic actors and start making movies, pointing their fingers at the actual bad guys. I am sooo tired of this relatavistic crapola.
I am still pissed off that Spielberg ruined War of the Worlds.
A lot of accidents are avoidable. That doesn't meant they're not accidents.
So I don't understand your point. Are you then saying that the Israelis deliberately spent all this research and planning on making SURE they killed the WRONG MAN?
Special Operations stuff like this counts very much as military in my book.
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Get real.
Do you even know the sequence of events in Lillihammer? Mossad used local amateurs to look for, identify and follow Salemeh. They saw someone who looked like him and immediately called in the hit team from Paris. No effort was made to insure that the local amateurs had the right guy. The wrong guy was shot dead while walking with his pregnant wife within a day. That was not an accident. It was a rush-to-vengeance and absolutely avoidable.
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