Munich, 1972, in the early morning of the Olympic Village, the silence was suddenly broken. Nine Israeli athletes (the other two had been killed, so it was actually 11) were kidnapped by the Muslim militant group "Black September", and the Federal German police were unable to rescue them. , several kidnappers died, and all nine athletes were killed. The whole world of Israel is in mourning. Mrs. Meir, who was the Prime Minister of Israel at that time, was called the first generation of Iron Lady, claiming that she "will never compromise with terrorists", "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", just like the intercontinental pursuit of Nazi widow Eichmann, to let the world hear the Jewish people. Voice, but there is the Soviet KGB on the left, and the US CIA, both of which have something to do with "Black September". Arab countries, must not reveal anything to do with Israel, the assassination begins - so far, exactly as I expected.
However, the protagonist of the secret service team, the male No. 1 killer is not a robot, not a murderer. He has a family, love, a child who is about to be born, and has a thinking mind. When he accepted the task, although he hesitated a little, but after waiting for two thousand years for his Jewish identity, he would never be displaced again if he regained his country. Protecting his tribe and his homeland is the mission of every Jew. However, he is more He is a modern man, a free man, who has the right to freely choose his own life.
The assassination went as planned, but it wasn't what I imagined it to be, it wasn't the bravery of Delta Force, it wasn't James Bond's slick appearances, but the bloody horror in their eyes—though they tried their best not to. Injured innocents, but the power of the bomb explosion in the hotel is enough to destroy a floor, and the newlyweds are covered in blood; in Infernal Affairs, the information is resold layer by layer, it is difficult to distinguish whether it is an enemy or a friend, and three colleagues also lose... The hero begins to hesitate: Eliminate A terrorist is replaced by a tougher enemy, endless, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, right? But the scene of the Munich massacre kept replaying in his mind. The Jews couldn't lose their homes, so he had nightmares. Finally, as the group members joked at the opening of the film, he didn't dare to sleep on the bed anymore, and could only hide in in the closet. . . Where should he go? Spielberg gave his answer in the film: choose to quit, immigrate to the United States with his family, live the life of ordinary people, and slowly repair the wounds of the soul in the dullness. In the last scene of the film, the hero and the Mossad executive who came to persuade him to return to Israel parted ways in front of the Manhattan high-rise background, Israel belongs to Israel, and ordinary people belong to ordinary people.
The story seems to be over here, which is what I call Spielberg's style: war is not love, killing is not family, so things like "Schindler's List", like the recent "War Horse", are full of Humanistic thinking, strong anti-war plot and humanitarian feelings.
It's just that I thought the Jewish story didn't and couldn't end there. I was thinking, not long after New York broke up, in October 1973, the fourth Middle East war, the "Yom Kippur War" broke out, because Israel was careless, maybe because there were more people thinking about life like the hero, and the war was not Reproducing the miracle of the "Six-Day War", with heavy losses (according to the proportion of the population, Israel suffered the proportion of casualties in the ten-year Vietnam War of the United States within three weeks). Seeing such a situation, what would the actor think? Can he continue to stay away from Israel?
Friends familiar with my blog know that I am a sympathizer and supporter of Zionism. Jews are such a special nation. No matter where they go, their special beliefs, appearance and living habits make them different (except China, it seems), and it cannot be said that they are all good people. According to the records of the "Old Testament", Jews have committed many crimes in the past, and probably because of this, anti-Semitic sentiment in Europe has a deep history and reached its peak during World War II. After the war, old Europe who fled to the Islamic region spread anti-Semitic thoughts to the Middle East. From the beginning of the first Middle East war in 1948 to the 1970s of the Munich Incident and the Yom Kippur War, it reached a peak again. Why return after a thousand years of separation? Why do they have to have a country? Why is the territorial issue a matter of life and death for them? Why are their armies so good at fighting? For me, every bit of knowledge of Jewish history means a bit of sigh. On the other side, Palestine and the surrounding Arab countries cannot say that they have no sympathy. They are just the same. Every time they understand more, they feel more embarrassed.
The Middle East issue seems to be a dead end. How to solve it? As the Jews once asked, where was God at the time of the Holocaust? As the Americans asked, where was God during "911"? In the face of the Middle East issue, I would like to say, God, why did you create such a difficult problem for mankind?
However, if you look back, isn't this the history of human growth? From savagery to civilization, from bloodthirsty and warlikeness to humanitarianism, you think that it is people who are getting better and better, but which one thing is not God leading the growth of mankind? So as I have written before, unless human beings can solve their own chronic diseases, there is no solution to national problems. Ethnic customs, religious beliefs, survival crises, economic interests, living habits, and even personal preferences are all uncontrollable factors in this chain of problems. If there is no more mature and stable social public mechanism, the problem will be more complicated. On the contrary, a mature and stable social base will be more conducive to weakening various contradictions. From this point of view, a society that is basically mentally mature and respects individual choices is obviously more likely to solve ethnic problems.
So, a new generation of Jewish groups like Spielberg and even Natalie Portman, when John Galliano spoke badly to Jews, they would collectively protest that he lost his job, and when faced with the disgrace of his own group History, they will think rationally. To a certain extent, these "leftists" living in the West can be regarded as the opposition of the Jewish state. Israel not only has opposition from neighboring countries, but also has its own national opposition. Only then can the country be considered healthy, and then gradually solve its own problems rationally—that’s how God set a very clever situation to lead the growth of Israel and human beings.
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