The left’s favorite charge against the President is that he ordered an invasion of Iraq based on faulty intelligence, perhaps even knowingly.

Are they ready to level the same charge against Steven Spielberg and his coming movie on the 1972 Munich terrorist murders of Israeli athletes and the resulting efforts by Israeli intelligence officers to hunt down and kill the perpetrators?

Spielberg has already been attacked and defended about the movie, its subject matter, and its tone. And we all need to take a breath before getting too worked up about a movie that hasn’t been finished yet. Meanwhile, according to this article from Haaretz the film is based in part on a book which has been seriously discredited. The book “Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team,”

by Canadian journalist George Jonas, is “strewn with mistakes” to start with, but more importantly, it relies heavily on a very shady source named Yuval Aviv, a man who among other things seems to falsely claim to have been a Mossad agent. Perhaps most troubling is the fact that Aviv was exposed in 1989, giving Spielberg and his team no excuse for basing any part of his story on him or the book.