During the 1972 Olympics in Munich, West Germany, German officials wanted to set a different tone to the previous match where Hitler was in power, so West Germany came to the decision to limit the number of officers to make Germany's image peaceful. Of course this would have lethal consequences because, while Germany may have been peaceful at the time, the world, particularly Palestine, was far from peaceful. A Black September terrorist group took 11 Israeli Olympic athletes hostage and in 24 all the hostages were dead. This was a shock to the entire world and anger was unleashed in Israel, so much so that the prime minister himself created an agency, the Mossad, to target those who were directly and indirectly involved. The documentary Munich: Mossad's Revenge covers the formation of the Mossad agency and how they achieved their goals. The director of Munich: Revenge of the Mossad tries to inform and clarify the audience's misconceptions about the topic by using first-hand accounts and using multiple points of view on the topic, which overall informs the audience about the topic, but the However, the director omits important events that occur. In Steven Spielberg's film Munich, based on Mossad operations, he depicted Mossad agents as a terrorist group just like the terrorist who killed the 11 Israeli Olympic hopefuls, which is clarified as inaccurate in the documentary and a Mossad agent describes the film as "a Hollywood film seen through American glasses that distorts what really happened in almost every way" (MacAskill). Of course the documentary, Munich: Revenge of the Mossad, doesn't mention the film itself, but it does clear up some misconceptions like how there was a team in the operation, that there were actually a number of... middle of the paper.. ....or I feel the need for justice to be done, I launched the operations having agents without any regrets of the operations have the final say in contrast to the opposition to the operations. The documentary can translate into other aspects of today by discussing counter-terrorism and whether it works is still a problem not only in Israel, but also in the world. Some argue that it is necessary to avoid the loss of innocent lives, while others argue that the only way to address the problem of terrorism is to solve the problem that brings nations into conflict instead of making the problem worse. Even though the documentary presents both sides of this idea, it is very clear that the director wanted to make the viewer believe that Mossad operations were justified to counter terrorism, having most of the interviews in his favor..
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