True enough, and that is the reason he should be afraid.
Posted on 12/27/2005 7:53:53 AM PST by Hildy
GAZA(Reuters) - The Palestinian mastermind of the Munich Olympics attack in which 11 Israeli athletes died said on Tuesday he had no regrets and that Steven Spielberg's new film about the incident would not deliver reconciliation.
The Hollywood director has called "Munich", which dramatizes the 1972 raid and Israel's reprisals against members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), his "prayer for peace".
Mohammed Daoud planned the Munich attack on behalf of PLO splinter group Black September, but did not take part and does not feature in the film.
He voiced outrage at not being consulted for the thriller and accused Spielberg of pandering to the Jewish state.
"If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone," Daoud told Reuters by telephone from the Syrian capital, Damascus.
Daoud said he had not seen the film, which will only reach most screens outside the United States next month.
But he noted that Spielberg arranged previews in Israel, where some have accused "Munich" of lacking historical accuracy.
Several Israeli historians have also complained about what they see as a moral symmetry in the film between slain Olympians and the Palestinians assassinated by the Mossad spy service.
"Spielberg showed the movie to widows of the Israeli victims, but he neglected the families of Palestinian victims," said Daoud. "How many Palestinian civilians were killed before and after Munich?"
MOSSAD ASSASSINS
The Munich attack was "one of the pivotal moments of modern terrorism" he told Los Angeles Times in rare interview last week.
Daoud used different terms.
"We did not target Israeli civilians," he said.
"Some of them (the athletes) had taken part in wars and killed many Palestinians. Whether a pianist or an athlete, any Israeli is a soldier."
Spielberg's producer, Kathleen Kennedy, told a preview audience at Princeton University that a Palestinian consultant was used for "Munich". She did not say who it was.
"I do feel that we spent an enormous amount of time in discussion and put effort into exploring a fair and balanced look at the Palestinians that were involved in the story," she said, according to an official transcript of the event.
Historians noted that "Munich" presents Mossad assassins as having hunted 11 members of the PLO, while other accounts put the final Palestinian toll at as many as 18.
Daoud survived a 1981 shooting in Poland that he blamed on a Mossad mole in the rival Palestinian faction of Abu Nidal.
Though Israel allowed him to visit the occupied West Bank after 1993 peace accords, and Mossad veterans say the reprisals are over, Daoud said he feels he could still be targeted.
"When I chose a long time ago to be a revolutionary fighter I prepared to be a martyr. I am not afraid, because people's souls are in God's hands, not Israel's," he said.
Spot on. Spielberg and his amoral equivocating comrades prefer their Jews weak, victimized, and most importantly, unarmed.
Riiight. Which would explain why you're still alive well into your retirement years. Maybe you can swap war stories with all the surviving Japanese Kamikaze veterans.
"How appropriate the movie is titled "Munich," a name synonomous with appeasement."
Too bad the olympics weren't held in Numremburg.
There was NO appeasement there.
Right on, cousin!
Spielberg, the self hating Jew, makes an high-profile appeasement offering to the terrorists and they turn him down? What a surprise...
Do these Hollywood people really think they have that kind of power? I mean, really, think about it. I was watching the wonderful SUNSET BOULEVARD yesterday and there's a line in it that bears repeating. Cecille B. DeMille tries to explain to an underling why Norma Desmond behaves the way she does and the warped frame of mind she lives in....he says, "It's amazing what 20 press agents working overtimes will do to the human spirit." I remembered it because I think it's so true about so many of our stars today.
True enough, and that is the reason he should be afraid.
They are surrounded by like-minded toadies who never dare to tell the Emperor that he has no clothes. They live insulated livesm They aren't connected to the real world and they no very little real history. AND Tony Kushner appears to be a self-hating Jew.
Sorry for the typos. :) I haven't had enough coffee yet.
I refused to see Angels in America...on stage and on Cable. I just knew I would get angry, so why even bother? And then when it won every Tony and Emmy known to man, I knew I made the right choice! :)
I refused to see Angels in America...on stage and on Cable. I just knew I would get angry, so why even bother? And then when it won every Tony and Emmy known to man, I knew I made the right choice! :)
you're right....but we both know damn well if the Israeli's rightfully put a bullet through the head of this POS everyone but America will come down on them for breaching treaty's\etc....
I'm noticing alot of commercials for this movie in the last few days...they're scared. But the surefire thing for me not to go see a movie was just mentioned in the commercial...EBERT & ROEPER GIVE IT TWO ENTHUSIASTIC THUMBS UP! BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR! That's my cue to stay away!
Spielberg has laid a massive egg with this movie. The only thing worse this movie season is "BareBack Mountain."
I believe the quote you might be interested in is that Spielberg said, about the Palestinian attackers, that "they have families, too."
I think at that point he anticipates us all to look at the moon and ponder ET.
Speilberg (also) is a member of a popular L.A. Reformist group, last time I heard anything about his affiliations with things like that. Might be different now, just don't know, but I do know he's about as liberal and as Democrat and as a friend of Bill Clinton's as they come, and this film seems to have been advised by political intrigue-ers and otherwise liberal propogandaists (Public Relations specialists) from the preproduction state forward...
And that Kushner has said he "hates America" and is a gay, gay, gay homosexual liberal.
And that Spielberg rejected an earlier script by the guy who wrote the script for "Forest Gump" (Roth) and chose Kushner to write another one because Spielberg said that he "wanted to humanize the story" so he chose Kushner, of all people, to do so. <<-- That last part mystifies me.
That's (^^) a quote from Tony Kushner's commencement speech before Vassar College recently.
I have the same reaction to anything and everything that is Tony Kushner as President Bush does to Kim Yong.
Kushner wrote the vile and profane "Angels in America" and Hollyicky awarded him for his crudeness with awards and lauds and lies.
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