No doubt you've heard that Spielberg is to make a film about the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre. I did not have much hope that this would be a film with a strong anti-terrorism message but it appears to be much worse than I suspected. According to this piece at Captain's Quarters the Spielberg film will not focus on the actual murder of Israeli athletes by terrorist thugs, but will instead concentrate on the Mossad team sent to eliminate them. According to actor Daniel Craig the film will send a message that "vengeance doesn't work- blood breeds blood."
Spielberg is apparently concerned that he "get's it right". Odd then that,
"the office of the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, which manages Mossad and its archives, has reportedly received no request for assistance. In addition, five retired Mossad agents, all of whom served in key intelligence posts at the time, have not been contacted."
Makes you wonder if he's going to get it right from the point of view of the terrorists or the agents sent to track them down and punish them? Captain's Quarters comes to the conclusion that this film is not only about Israel but about America today and its response to 9/11-
If these reports are accurate, he intends on passing judgment on America for going after the terrorists that targeted our civilians on 9/11. Spielberg has long opposed the Iraq War and the Bush administration for its efforts to eliminate the threat of Islamofascist terror and tyranny.
Well, according to Spielberg himself, that analysis seems to be correct-
"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 stand-off we find ourselves in today."
According to this post at Ain't It Cool-
"In Mr. Kushner's script, people who have read it say, the Israeli assassins find themselves struggling to understand how their targets were chosen, whether they belonged on the hit list and, eventually, what, if anything, their killing would accomplish."
The article posted there goes on to point out-
"I don't know how many of them actually had 'troubling doubts' about what they were doing," said Michael B. Oren, the historian and author of "Six Days of War." "It's become a stereotype, the guilt-ridden Mossad hit man. You never see guilt-ridden hit men in any other ethnicity. Somehow it's only the Jews. I don't see Dirty Harry feeling guilt-ridden. It's the flip side of the rationally motivated Palestinian terrorist: you can't have a Jew going to exact vengeance and not feel guilt-ridden about it, and you can't have a Palestinian who's operating out of pure evil - it's got to be the result of some trauma."
Spielberg is trying to keep information on the film under wraps but it seems pretty odd that he's chosen to consult one of Bill Clinton's Middle East diplomats and Clinton himself, rather than the Israelis involved. I don't hold out much hope for this one, given the director's agenda.
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