[Publius6961]

"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.

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?

[rbg81]

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.