Dear Editor,
In his review of “Munich" (USA Today 12/22/05), Anthony Breznian says that the Palestinian “argument for the right to a homeland… sounds eerily like the Israeli point of view.” So Israel’s right to their own country, the one Jewish country in the world, is equated to the Palestinian’s desire to have their own Arab country, of which there are 22? In a world that has persecuted Jews for the past two thousand years, Jews need a safe haven. If there had been a Jewish homeland during the most horrendous case of Jew hating, the extermination of the Jews of Europe, millions of lives could have been saved. This is similar to the Palestinian experience?
The movie depicts the massacre of Israeli athletes in 1972. Israel won the West Bank and Gaza in 1967. How can Breznian compare this 5 year "longing" to the Jews 5000 year longing for a homeland? There was not even such a thing as a Palestinian Arab until the 1960’s, when they adopted that moniker to mislead the world (not to mention Spielberg and USA Today) into thinking they had been there since time immemorial. This film, along with other reporting on the conflict, ends up as a revision of history that provides more fodder for the persecution and hatred of Jews.
Michael Berenhaus
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