“[A] direct connection to the Munich massacre was no longer needed. Anybody found to be an outspoken supporter of the Palestinian armed struggle or actively involved in the preparation of terrorist events was a potential target of Mossad’s killing team.”
Aviva Guttmann, Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Assassination Campaign, Cambridge University Press, 2023
“The book,” writes Alain Gresh, “will disappoint readers who expect revelations. The exchanges mostly confirm that the frame of reference (the “war on terror”) used to analyze the Middle East is utterly useless, that on the contrary it has a blinding effect, making the western services incapable of understanding the nature of Black September, its relationship with Fatah and quite simply the meaning of the Palestinian struggle. For them “the war on terror” was a “technical” campaign with no political content. The author herself is not immune to this simplistic reading.”
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