[Marxism] Munich, Reviewers Missing Impetus Behind Black September?

[Alex Briscoe <obeynow20001@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think that this review, while generally okay, does
not mention the impetus behind the 72 hostage taking:
the onslaught/slaughter of Palestinian guerillas and
civilians in Jordanian guerilla bases and refugee
camps.  My recollection of this, I think from _The Gun
and the Olive Branch_, is that Israel and the U.S.
pushed the Jordanian gov't, their U.S. puppet, to
crush the PLO, which was primarily stationed in Jordan
at the time.  The Jordanian army was sent in,
thousands of Palestinians were killed and the PLO was
pushed into Lebanon.  This happened in September
(71?)  The Angry Arab blog didn't mention this either.
   
  Thus the group Black September was named after the
onslaught which killed thousands of Palestinians. 
Ignoring this continues the morality that 11 Jews are
worth more than thousands of Palestinians.  However, I
do agree with other posters that "Munich" seems to be
on balance a good thing as it is condemns Israeli
assassinations of Palestinians, and forces dialogue,
whatever one thinks of Palestinian-Israeli-Western
actions in September of 1972.
   
Alex Briscoe
   
   
   
  Below is the review of "Spielberg's "Munich" in
today's Mornign Star:

Munich (15)
(Friday 27 January 2006)
Directed by Stephen Spielberg
  JEFF SAWTELL watches as Stephen Spielberg throws a
spanner in the
works and gives us his view of the events in Israel in
1972.


Not since Schindler's List has Stephen Spielberg
provoked such
controversy. You may remember that, following his
Holocaust tale, he
included an epilogue that was effectively a recruiting
film for Israel.

With his new film Munich, about Israel's attempt to
assassinate the
Palestinians responsible for organising the attack on
their athletes
at the 1972 Olympics, Spielberg has managed to upset
people in both camps.

Based on George Jonas's controversial book Vengeance
as interpreted
by scriptwriters Tony Kushner and Eric Roth, it's
supposed to be an
account according to the former Mossad agent Yuval
Aviv.

Naturally, the zionists accuse Spielberg of being
anti-Israel,
despite the fact that critics in the other camp
criticise him for
failing to illustrate the extent of the Palestinian
suffering.

Spielberg counters this by insisting that Schindler
proved that he
wasn't anti-Israel and that he's simply asking
questions about the
immorality of illegally executing Israel's enemies.

Understandably, since all of the major characters are
Jewish, critics
have pointed out that the Palestinian characters are,
with one
exception, largely the terrorist image of Israeli
propaganda.

Quite simply, if you didn't know anything about the
events, you might
just see it as an overlong action film about Israeli
terrorists
terrorising Arab terrorists before some of the former
see the error
of their ways.

For those who haven't a clue what happened in 1972,
the film opens
with a review of events as seen by the Western media -
a group
sneaking over the fence and taking 11 hostages.

They are members of Black September, a faction of the
Fedayeen who
were prepared to sacrifice themselves to draw
international attention
to Israel's criminal occupation of Palestine.



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