Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team ( by George Jonas (book) and Munich ( Movie ) -The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg Book Review Vengeance is a true story that reads like a novel. It is the account of five ordinary Israelis, selected to vanish into the cold of espionage secrecy -- their mission to hunt down and kill the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Operation Wrath of God in Hebrew also called Operation Bayonet was a covert operation directed by Israel and its security agency, Mossad, to assassinate individuals alleged to have been directly or indirectly involved in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics This is the account of that secret mission, as related by the leader of the group -- the first Mossad agent to come out of deep cover and tell the story of a heroic endeavor that was shrouded in silence and speculation for years. He reveals the long and dangerous operation whose success was bought at a terrible cost to the idealistic volunteer agents themselves. Avner was the leader of that team, handpicked by Golda Meir to avenge the monstrous crime of Munich. He and his young companions, cut off from any direct contact with Israel, set out systematically to find and kill the central figures of the PLOs Munich operation, tracking them down wherever they lived. Munich ( Movie ) -The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg Film Review Munich is a 2005 drama film based on Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli governments secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth. Based on the book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team about Yuval Aviv, who states he was a Mossad agent, Munich follows a squad of assassins as they track down and kill alleged members of the group Black September, which kidnapped and murdered eleven Israeli athletes.
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 14:23:03 +0000
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