Spielberg's Munich and me

Spielberg's Munich and me

by Rachel Neuwirth

The American Thinker

(I CAN'T RECOMMEND THIS CONDEMNATION OF SPIELBERG MORE HIGHLY)

I had deep misgivings about seeing Spielberg’s Munich. The tragedy was too close to my heart.

I was supposed to be with the 1972 Israeli Olympiads as a member of the Israeli women’s basketball team. At the last minute, the International Olympic Committee decided against including a women’s basketball event. (It did not become a regular event until the 1976 Olympics.)

I didn’t go to Munich, but I spent years training with the athletes who did go. We developed a close camaraderie, as people do at training camps where tensions and hopes are high. I knew each one of them personally. They were my friends. I watched in horror as the massacre unfolded on TV. I, too, could have been slaughtered by the killers linked to Yasser Arafat.

Instead, I watched them slaughter my friends and saw how callously the world responded. The games went on even as my friends’ bodies were flown home draped not in medals but in burial shrouds. MORE

Posted by Ted Belman at January 3, 2006 06:26 PM

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1. daniel said:

Once again Rachel Neuwirth is on target. She is one of the few pro-Israel writers that really gets to the core of the issues that are threatening Israel. She wrote two excellent essays recently about the disgracefull reaction of the Jewish orginizations in regard to the expulsion. See html://www.michnews.com to view.

Posted by: daniel on January 3, 2006 07:21 PM

2. Bill Levinson said:

Rachel, I am glad that the Mossad gunned down most of the vermin that perpetrated this action. The only omission was Yasser Arafat, who also should have gotten a bullet through his head.


I heard that Germany is releasing one of the terrorists who helped beat U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem and then kill him on a hijacked airplane. I hope President Bush will order the CIA to have this individual hunted down and killed,* preferably by a Navy SEAL team. The idea of a SEAL jerking this terrorist's head back and slitting his throat, just like a pig's, is very appealing and my country ought to make that happen as soon as possible.


* If he's within U.S. jurisdiction, of course, he is entitled to a fair trial before he is strapped to a gurney for a lethal injection.

Posted by: Bill Levinson on January 3, 2006 09:14 PM

3. kuhnkat said:

If he is in US territory we will need to deport him to some other country where they can deal with him.

In the US by the time the trial and appeals were done he would have died of old age.

Maybe Israel?

Posted by: kuhnkat on January 3, 2006 11:53 PM

4. Bill Levinson said:

Israel? Are you kidding? Israel doesn't have the death penalty and it even lets the terrorists out. At least if he's convicted in the U.S., the terrorist WILL die of old age IN PRISON where he belongs if he manages to drag the appeals out to avoid execution.


1260 foot-pounds divided by the weight of the problem (terrorist) equals the length of the solution. We really need an expert "craftsman" like Albert Pierrepoint to deal with these Islamofascists...

Posted by: Bill Levinson on January 4, 2006 03:09 AM

5. BobW said:

Shalom Kuhnkat and Bill,

Not so for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

In 1993 a barbarian from Pakistan living in Virginia went to the parking lot at CIA Headquarters, McLean, Virginia and randomly murdered 2 CIA employees. Three others were wounded.

This barbarian, Aimal Khan Kasi, said he did the shooting in retailation for US policy in the Middle East and US support for Israel.

NOT using legal avenues, a US team hunted down this barbarian and returned him to the US. He was tried, convicted and executed in 2002.

Originally, this barbarian was believed to be acting along. There is new material affiliating him with Mohamed Atta of al Qaeda.

One of the murderers of USN diver Robert Stethem is at large somewhere in Lebanon. This murderer could get a fair trial in Virginia but finding a jury would take a few decades. So many people within a 100 mile radius of Amphib Base, Little Creek, Virginia Beach have offered to assist the judicial system, taxes need not be used to avenge the murder of Robert Stethem. The suggested capital punishment was not lethal injection.

To close, after Kasi was executed in Virginia, some Americans (believe engineers) were murdered in retaliation, in Karachi, Pakistan. It is a long process to control the barbarians.

Kol tuv,
BobW

Posted by: BobW on January 4, 2006 05:10 AM

6. kuhnkat said:

That is because the animal admitted to his crime. If this guy gets a lawyer and pleads not-guilty...

Remember the Blind Sheik from the first Towers Bombing?? He's still hanging around. No other animal has done anything but jail time so far.

I was in Guantanamo Bay for 6 months. Some of the "detainees" call it a terrorist religious retreat. I want to spit on every filthy liar that spews about all the torture we do to these animals!!! I'd like to do more but just spitting will probably get me jailed now a days!!

Posted by: kuhnkat on January 5, 2006 01:38 AM

7. Bill Levinson said:

"One of the murderers of USN diver Robert Stethem is at large somewhere in Lebanon. This murderer could get a fair trial in Virginia but finding a jury would take a few decades. So many people within a 100 mile radius of Amphib Base, Little Creek, Virginia Beach have offered to assist the judicial system, taxes need not be used to avenge the murder of Robert Stethem. The suggested capital punishment was not lethal injection."


Here's my suggestion for a fair trial for this individual. (1) Divide 1260 foot-pounds by the terrorist's weight. (2) Attach one end of a stretched rope of that length to his neck and the other to a gallows. (3) Pull the lever. If the trapdoor fails to open, it's assumed that God wants him to live and he is acquitted. Otherwise, verdict and sentence are carried out automatically. :-)


Of course, the trapdoor must be well-lubricated and checked to make sure it works. There HAVE been a few rare cases in which it didn't, and the prisoner had to be let off. On the other hand, a jury of 12 Navy SEALs might work. The convenient thing is that, as soon as the verdict was rendered, you would have 12 men on hand to make up a firing squad.

Posted by: Bill Levinson on January 5, 2006 01:15 PM

8. kuhnkat said:

Bill,

actually someone should "introduce" that guy to one of our trained canines. For some reason they are deathly afraid of dogs even if the dog ISN'T biting them!! I hear it is quite humorous watching them in the presence of one snarling and barking!!

Now, if that dog should somehow get loose and get the idea that he was a BAD GUY...

Posted by: kuhnkat on January 6, 2006 12:45 AM

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