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I’m Not In Favor Of Vigilante Justice, But…

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On Sunday, Red State posted an article about one of Israel’s responses to the attacks of October 7, 2023.

The article reports:

In the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre that left 11 Israeli coaches and athletes dead at the hands of Black September terrorists (bonus question: the Palestinians and which other nation were involved in “Black September?”), Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir unleashed Operation Spring of Youth, a raid on Palestine Liberation Organization camps in Lebanon that killed over 50 terrorists. She also went after the Munich massacre organizers. Operation Wrath of God unleashed Mossad hit squads on Black September terrorists cowering in Europe, under the illusion they were safe there. This operation continued until its final hit on February 14, 1988, in Cyprus. Between nine and 11 key Munich planners and facilitators were ultimately killed, with slop-over from the targeted hits bringing the score to around 20. The operation was marred by the Lillehammer Affair where the wrong guy was killed, but as Napoleon said, you can’t make an omelet without whacking Arabs…I mean breaking eggs.

Many years ago, I had the privilege of meeting a member of the 1972 Israeli Olympic Fencing Team who was not killed in the massacre and hearing his story. There were a few members of the team that were not taken to the airport, and they survived. They spent the rest of their lives caring for the wives and children who were left behind.

The article notes:

According to Israeli media, Israel has killed no fewer than 2,561 of the around 3,000 terrorists who crossed from Gaza into Israel on October 7. About 1,000 of these were killed in traditional combat with the IDF. The remainder got their one-way trip to Hell courtesy of a secretive unit called Nili. Nili was formed shortly after the October 7 attack and given the mission of tracking down every single terrorist who invaded Israel on October 7. The name Nili is an acronym for a biblical phrase (1 Samuel 15:29) that translates as “the Eternal One of Israel will not lie.” It is composed of elements of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security and counterintelligence service, which operates directly under the Prime Minister, and the Israel Defense Forces. 

I am not a fan of vigilant justice, but where would Israel go to hold those responsible for October 7th accountable? The United Nations only recently fired the members of UNRWA that were involved in the attack–fired–nothing more. The United Nations has always been more likely to condemn Israel for responding to an attack than to condemn the attacker. The World Court is not any better. Sadly, Israel is the only country likely to hold terrorists accountable when they attack Israel.

Trying To Ignore History

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The 1972 Olympic massacre occurred more than 50 years ago. Many years ago I was fortunate to meet a member of the Israeli fencing team from that Olympics. Because the terrorists skipped the room the fencing team was staying in, members of the fencing team survived. It was a horrible event, and I remember watching it unfold on television, ending with the death of most of the Israeli athletes. There is no question as to who was responsible for the terrorism, and Mossad eliminated many of the terrorists after the events. But there are always people who are trying to rewrite history.

On Sunday, The Jewish Chronicle reported the following:

Nearly 1,000 people have signed an online petition calling on a cinema in Brooklyn to stop screening a film about the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics.

September 5, directed by Tim Fehlbaum, follows the terrorist attack carried out by the Palestinian militant organisation Black September, which saw two members of the Israeli Olympic team killed and nine taken hostage. Those kidnapped were later killed.

The film, which premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2024, is screening this January at the Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Brooklyn.

…The workers describe the film as “Zionist propaganda”, which misrepresents the militants who carried out the massacre as “antisemitic terrorists”.

The film is told from the perspective of an ABC Sports broadcasting team, whose coverage quickly adapted from the Olympic Games to the Israeli athletes being taken hostage.

“The film is an ahistorical and dehumanising dramatisation of Operation Iqrit and Biram, undertaken by the Black September Organisation at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in the name of the liberation of 200+ Palestinian prisoners,” the petition said.

The article includes an example of propaganda by those who don’t object to terrorism:

“Echoing the well-worn pattern seen since 9/11, September 5 is yet another attempt by the Western media to push its imperialist and racist agenda, manufacturing consent for the continued genocide and cultural decimation of Palestine and its peoples.

“It is quintessential Orientalism: Depicting Arabs and brown people as evil, antisemitic terrorists, while lionising the very newsrooms that provide political cover and, in many cases, cheer for endless wars and genocide.”

The Black September people took hostages and murdered people, how were they not “antisemitic terrorists”? The Pro-Palestinian groups have never criticized the raids of October 7, 2024. How can we expect them to criticize the events of the 1972 Olympics? Leopards don’t change their stripes.

The People Who Know

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On Tuesday, Ed Morrissey at Hot Air reported that Jordan and Egypt have refused to take Palestinian refugees. They are not being heartless–they are protecting their regimes. There is a lot of history behind this decision.

The article reports:

How could Germany, of all countries, ask Jordan to accept a mass of Palestinian refugees? The PLO under Yasser Arafat tried to seize power in Jordan after King Hussein offered them sanctuary following the 1967 war with Israel. After two assassination attempts, Hussein finally used armed force to push Arafat and his collection of ingrates into Lebanon through Syria, another Arafat disaster that the Palestinians called Black September.

They gave that name to its terror wing, which is why Germany in particular should recall that history. After its ejection from Jordan, the PLO and its Black September wing went on an international terror spree, attempting to force the West to stop supporting Israel. One of its most well-known operations was the attempted abduction and murder of Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics. As in Munich, Germany (West Germany at the time, of course).

How clueless does a German chancellor have to be to ask Jordan to recreate the conditions for another Black September — especially when the Gazans are so closely aligned with Iran? Clueless enough to attempt to ask Egypt next, apparently…

The article also notes:

Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has already rejected this idea, and with even more reason. As I wrote last week, Hamas sprang out of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the Muslim Brotherhood wants al-Sisi dead. Why in the world would anyone think that al-Sisi would allow tens of thousands of potential Muslim Brotherhood foot soldiers into his country now? If Germany or any of the other leaders in the West took even a moment to consider the precarious nature of both regimes, they’d be embarrassed to even have floated this idea.

The only country that should give refuge to the Gazans at the moment is Iran. They authored the present misery of the Gazans through their proxy Hamas. Iran won’t take them in either, though, even apart from the logistics of that kind of relocation. For one thing, the Persian Shi’ite mullahs couldn’t care less about the mainly Sunni Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank, but also they can’t afford their destabilizing presence either. They already have a restive population that the IRGC can barely contain, and that population hates the Palestinians and the way that the mullahs exploit their cause to justify their oppression.

Looking for a home for Palestinian refugees is like asking people to provide a home for a teenage murderer who has somehow escaped jail. Sometimes kindness involves great risk that can only end badly.