Why is it then that Munich caused so much controversy?
I don’t know what made me more uncomfortable, the historical inaccuracies, the humanisation of terrorists and terrorism, the justification of vengeance or the unnecessary wah wah self-righteousness of the Jewish protagonists. As a ‘fictionalised account’ of the Munich aftermath Spielberg does awfully well at making a [...]

Last night’s documentary Munich: Mossad’s Revenge was absolutely brilliant, especially the reconstruction of Barak’s infamous donning of female attire in the Beirut shootings. During the 1972 Olympics in Munich a dozen Israeli athletes were kidnapped by a PLO group known as Black Sunday demanding the release of their fighters in Israeli prisons. In a botched [...]