Tragedy of the Munich Games via @Qitman

Fair Use publication as per US Copyright Law. The PLO started its terror attacks in the 1960s before the 1967 Six Day War, and graduated to skyjacking in the early 1970s. It is now widely believed and reported (though I have not yet personally confirmed) that Yasser Arafat and other terror actors were funded and trained by the Soviet Union consistent with the worldwide attempts to provoke socialist takeovers of virtually any unstable nation.

Tragedy of the Munich Games

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One Day in September

Deserving its new Oscar status as Best Documentary, "One Day in September" reminds us that documentaries are rarely released theatrically and have long since been the province of television. This has led to the typical TV documentary being, creatively at least, dull in the extreme, consisting as it does of talking heads and a bunch of clips.

"One Day in September", by contrast, owes much to the craft of cinema, and includes huge amounts of ebb and flow, explosive scenes, quiet moments and the stirring use of music. The events themselves, stemming from the hostage-taking of eleven Israeli athletes by eight Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, are possessed of a natural drama and so prove of great benefit to director Kevin MacDonald (whose brother Andrew famously produced "Trainspotting").

Yet MacDonald employs the drama to heighten, not hype, the truth, and the sadness and hopelessness of almost every moment are never blotted out. READ ON

The PLO started its terror attacks in the 1960s before the 1967 Six Day War, and graduated to skyjacking in the early 1970s. It is now widely believed and reported (though I have not yet personally confirmed) that Yasser Arafat and other terror actors were funded and trained by the Soviet Union consistent with the worldwide attempts to provoke socialist takeovers of virtually any unstable nation.

This event is nearly always viewed independently from the Cold War, as if is somehow transpired out of a vacuum. Were they acting on their own?

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