Munich

So, um,

You want to do Munich?

Yeah, yeah, we can do Munich.

Yeah, so I did a random pick, and I got Steven Spielberg's Munich from 2005, which I was so excited that we got it.

Because you had never seen it.

You bought the Blu-ray.

You were mentioning, there's two things I wanted to bring up, how Mossad operations are just those type of operations that do take place and they often get botched.

A really good example of that is the film Munich, which is about the 1972 Israelis that got murdered.

So there was a Mossad operation to go after what's called Black September in order to retaliate for those specific, you know, that crime of what happened at Munich for the Olympic Games.

So, yeah, people might want to check it out, but it's a good example of what you were talking about because there was a lot of mishaps that they didn't anticipate.

But, you know.

Okay, I will look him up.

And then you mentioned Europa, and what was the other movie you mentioned?

Munich.

War of the Worlds was 2005 with

Munich.

Well, he made Munich and War of the Worlds in 2005.

So maybe the year before.

You might be right.

I didn't see Munich at the cinema, but I saw War of the Worlds.

And to me, that's sort of his last hurrah, that era.

And Munich got straight up dramatic success.

Christ, I miss the Cold War.

In September 1972, the peace of the Munich Olympics was shattered as five members of the Palestinian Liberation Organization group, Black September, took 11 Israeli athletes hostage.

After two days and several failed rescue attempts by the German authorities, all of the athletes were dead.

In 1984, George Jonas published the book Vengeance, which detailed Operation Gideon, a mission by the Israeli Secret Service Mossad to hunt down and assassinate the architects of the Munich attack.

In 2005, Hollywood director Steven Spielberg released Munich, a thriller inspired by vengeance that follows a Mossad team on their mission through Europe and the impact upon them of the violence that they inflict.

The film would gather significant attention and retains power and resonance more than 20 years after its release.

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And there is reflective nostalgia, looking back on the past with an awareness that there were problems to be acknowledged along with the fondness.

Because of all that, I mean, I guess I was going to say I only got to a couple, but I actually got to like five movies, which isn't too bad.

Munich, Steven Spielberg.

Dude, so fucking good, this movie.

Oh, my God.

That's Munich.

Five of them

came out.

yes it's it's uh here i'll read the synopsis for you um during the 1972 olympic games in munich 11 israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a palestinian terrorist group known as black september in retaliation the israeli government recruits a group of masad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack so it's like you're following these like Mossad agents as they're like hunting these people down it's kind of like you know they're away from their families they're like confining these spaces doing these like horrible things like it's so it plays a lot with like the morality of the situation and all that um and it's super interesting and it's not very good but uh what's up

And I do believe that it was used for all kinds of Israeli intelligence operations.

I don't know if you ever saw the movie Munich with Steven Spielberg.

Well, there's this scene where Avner, the Mossad agent that was supposed to take out all of these guys that were involved in the 1972 Olympic massacre in Europe.

And they just basically sent a kill team into Europe And they show Avner, who's the head of the team, going to a bank account in Switzerland, in Zurich, and having access to millions of dollars in order to obtain the intelligence and the equipment, everything they needed in order to take out all the people responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre, Olympic massacre.

That's the kind of account that Arnold Milton filled with cash.

Yeah, if I recall correctly, just like one specific deal that he did, I think that his referral cut of that was like $300,000, if I remember correctly.

It would,

absolutely, yeah.