Karen
04-04-2006, 12:27 PM
Book and Film Review from Dissident Voice
“The Case Against Israel” and “Munich”
by Julian Samuel
Steven Spielberg’s film Munich is about Israeli agents who cloak-and-dagger around Europe murdering dark, hooked-nosed Palestinians thought to have conducted the 1972 Munch attack on Israeli Olympic athletes. Is Munich a morally complex film which shows us how and why Israel has to use terrorism to stop terrorism? If one’s source of history and international understanding and compassion is, somehow, taken from news media such as CNN and the BBC, then the film offers a deep experience on morality and politics. However, if one looks at Munich through Michael Neumann’s book, The Case Against Israel (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904859461/ref=ase_dissidentvoic-20/103-0203770-9627020?s=books&v=glance&n=283155&tagActionCode=dissidentvoic-20), the film becomes a transparent work in the tradition of American filmmaker D. W. Griffith.....( full article (https://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr06/Samuel04.htm))
“The Case Against Israel” and “Munich”
by Julian Samuel
Steven Spielberg’s film Munich is about Israeli agents who cloak-and-dagger around Europe murdering dark, hooked-nosed Palestinians thought to have conducted the 1972 Munch attack on Israeli Olympic athletes. Is Munich a morally complex film which shows us how and why Israel has to use terrorism to stop terrorism? If one’s source of history and international understanding and compassion is, somehow, taken from news media such as CNN and the BBC, then the film offers a deep experience on morality and politics. However, if one looks at Munich through Michael Neumann’s book, The Case Against Israel (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904859461/ref=ase_dissidentvoic-20/103-0203770-9627020?s=books&v=glance&n=283155&tagActionCode=dissidentvoic-20), the film becomes a transparent work in the tradition of American filmmaker D. W. Griffith.....( full article (https://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr06/Samuel04.htm))