Israeli Consul Lambasts Spielberg’s “Munich” Film
Israel’s consul-general in Los Angeles has lambasted Steven Spielberg’s film about the 1972 Olympic massacre in Munich as a “superficial“, “pretentious” and “problematic” work that draws an incorrect moral equation between Mossad agents and Palestinian terrorists.
Speaking to Israeli radio, Ehud Danoch, said: “As a Hollywood movie, I assume that it will be defined as a well-made film, but from the standpoint of the messages it sends, the messages are problematic.”
Munich follows a hit squad from the Israeli secret service, Mossad, as it hunts down and kills the gunmen from the Palestinian Black September group who held hostage Israeli athletes during the Olympics. A botched rescue operation by German security forces ended in 11 of the athletes being killed.
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