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In September 1972 during the Munich Olympics, 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. The world was horrified, but in Israel, grief soon turned to anger and determination. Hard-line opposition leader Menachem Begin told the Knesset: ‘Retaliation no longer suffices. We demand a prolonged, open-ended assault against the murderers and their bases ...’ In what became known as ‘Operation Wrath of God’, prime minister Golda Meir swiftly sanctioned secret plans for exacting retribution against those who had planned the slaughter – transforming herself into judge, jury and executioner at the stroke of a pen.A covert, fast-track bureaucratic chain was set up between Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, and a panel of ministers collectively called ‘Committee X’, which met to sanction each killing. Because the Israelis didn’t want to be accused of using the same methods as terrorists, a critical factor was that no one should be able to make a direct connection between the assassinations and Israel.
There was a movie about that subject that was very well produced, but my last, lonely brain cell is having trouble coming up with the name.
