Munich, the movie

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We saw it yesterday and were moved.

No, I don't think that it is anti-Israel or pro-Palestinians. I think that it tried to look at 1972 events from a 2005 vantage point and it really cannot be done. Not in this case.

In 1972 the memories of the Holocaust were still fresh, and raw. And when the Golda Meir character said that Jews were being murdered in Germany, again, while the whole world just looks - it resonated then.

Also, I think that after WWII there were people from the new state of Israel that did go to Europe in search of Nazis so having a group capturing leaders of Black September was not that outrageous.

As I was watching all the bungling and failures that they had with each target - and I don't know how much this is true - I thought that another message was that tracking and killing assassins is not as sleek as all the James Bond movies were trying to tell us. That this is a messy business following the good old Murphy's law: anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Still, a very powerful images, especially if one remembers the actual events, which I do.