Prayer for peace or Israel-Palestine firestarter? The controversy behind Spielberg's Munich
The West Side Story director's dramatisation of the revenge mission that followed the 1972 Olympics massacre started a conflict of its own
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The West Side Story director's dramatisation of the revenge mission that followed the 1972 Olympics massacre started a conflict of its own
This actually a play on Michael Shrimpton’s article, which is entitled “Israel hammers Hamas,” and which is completely devoid of historical facts and deep analysis about what has been doing on in the Middle East for the better part of sixty years. Back in 2014, Shrimpton and I had a long discussion about similar issues, both at VT and via email messages. For the life of me, I simply cannot understand why Shrimpton continues to avoid scholarly studies that have been written on these issues and move on to perpetuate the Israeli narratives, which, as my dear friend Mark Dankof put it in ou...