I was fourteen years old and starting my freshman year during 72 Munich games. I remember vividly the anger, sadness, and rage I felt as I watched and listened to John McKay report on the events as they unfolded.

While the methods, motivating ideology, and scope of terrorsim may have changed the results have not, deaths and injuries to innocent civilians.

The more terrorsim changes the more it stays the same.

I have not seen the movie Munich but I will try to catch it sometime.

The ethical relativism of the film is hugely popular here in Germany. Every crime Jews commit, really or imagined, reduce a wee bit our own guilt about the Holocaust. I still remember the gushing review of the film from a major radio station: “The good are bad as well and the bad are good too”. So we don’t have to worry about guilt anymore.

I have commented on all this here and here.

May they not be forgotten and rest in peace, Yossef Gutfreund who threw his considerable weight against the door in an attempt to stop the intruders and thus gave his roommate time to escape, Moshe Weinberg who, wounded, attacked the kidnappers, allowing one of his wrestlers to escape, Yossef Romano, veteran of the Six-Day War, who attacked and wounded one of the intruders before being shot dead, Ze’ev Friedman, David Berger, Yakov Springer, Eliezer Halfin, Kehat Shorr, Mark Slavin, Andre Spitzer, Amitzur Shapira — and the German petty police officer Anton Fliegerbauer as well.