Posted on 12/26/2005 9:37:16 AM PST by l33t
"There's no peace at the end of this," warns Avner, the morally anguished Mossad assassin, as Steven Spielberg's new film, "Munich," draws to a close. And by "this" he means the targeted killings that Israel is said to have begun after 11 of its athletes were murdered at the 1972 Olympics by members of the Palestinian Black September offshoot of Fatah.
But Mr. Spielberg, in collaboration with his screenwriters, Eric Roth and the playwright Tony Kushner, also has a different "this" in mind. The camera pointedly settles on the period's skyline of lower Manhattan, showing the World Trade Center in sharp relief.
The warning and image are meant to suggest that militant attempts to destroy terrorism lead not to peace but to cycles of violence, and that the 9/11 attacks may even be consequences of Israel's response to the Munich massacre. A war on terror amplifies terror. Moreover, the movie teaches, opposing sides begin to resemble each other. Moral credibility is destroyed along with hope.
The same argument is being made now about the war in Iraq, of course, as well as about Israel's continuing responses to terrorism. Indeed, before "Munich" opened, when it was reported that the film would emphasize the ethical qualms of the Mossad assassins, Mr. Spielberg explained, "By experiencing how the implacable resolve of these men to succeed in their mission slowly gave way to troubling doubts about what they were doing, I think we can learn something important about the tragic standoff we find ourselves in today." But can we? Though said to be "inspired by real events," Mr. Spielberg's film taps into a highly influential theory about terrorism that itself bears little relation to what is known about this history.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The world is up against demonic death cultist butchers.
The fault is not the jews, but the demonic death cult.
But Mr. Spielberg, in collaboration with his screenwriters, Eric Roth and the playwright Tony Kushner, also has a different "this" in mind. The camera pointedly settles on the period's skyline of lower Manhattan, showing the World Trade Center in sharp relief.
As long as sane people speak up, this attempt at rewriting history will fail.
I'm not sure when, exactly, movies were accepted as a valid substitute for reality, hence history, but there is a strong tendency in that direction among the ignorant, and they get to vote.
This dovetails nicely with the "'forgeries' but true" new school of journalism. In the old days, individuals and groups would never attempt outrageous propaganda because they would be a laughing stock and little else. Only governments had the means or the motivation to pull it off.
What's changed?
So, we can expect balance from the NYT...every other Monday...
The Left wanted to trot out this "moral equivalence" claptrap on 9-12, but they had to wait a full year until the rage of the US citizenry abated. There is, and there never will be, a moral equivalence between fanatical sub-human Muslims and the West. There will be peace only after the civilized Muslsims do something about their evil spawn -- or the West is forced to kill them in great numbers until they stand down.
was a lie until the mass slaughters of WW1 were over. I suggest it will take the same level of death for the Muslims to learn the same lesson.
"Though said to be "inspired by real events," Mr. Spielberg's film taps into a highly influential theory about terrorism that itself bears little relation to what is known about this history." I used to have respect for Spielberg as an artist and an observer of humanity. He now seems to have joined the "navel-gazers"
A good read!!
But Mr. Spielberg, in collaboration with his screenwriters, Eric Roth and the playwright Tony Kushner, also has a different "this" in mind. The camera pointedly settles on the period's skyline of lower Manhattan, showing the World Trade Center in sharp relief.
Oh, I get it. The Israelis were really to blame for 9/11--because the retailiated against what happened at Munich.
So what Mr Kushchner is really saying is that the West should just bend over and take it.
Well, yes. That's the view of one dumbass, masquerading as an American. Or, in the PC realm, as a normal human being...
... in months ending in 'er'.
L
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