Israel (now broader Mid East discussion)

Madmarsha said
Discussion question: What knowledge and understanding do those of you under my current age of 60 have to the Munich massacre of 1972?

I was only 9, avid watcher of the Olympics, I remember it very well albeit with NO frame of reference here as a WASP in the US to the Jewish plight save for having memorized the soundtrack to Fiddler on the Roof and seeing ads for the Time Life books on the Holocaust. Most definitely my first exposure to international terrorism.

Here we are 51 years later. 56 years after the 6 Day War, 52 years after the Yom Kippur War. This is LITERALLY the first time I have dived this deep into this really trying to understand.

Obviously, being 45 and born 6 years after the event took place limited my knowledge on the subject. After reading on it in college, I came around to it similarly to you in that it was a lesson on international terrorism. The 1st Gulf war was my first exposure to war, being the first 'televised' war, as everything was captured on television during that time.

Having near real-time access makes these things so much more difficult to navigate, I imagine, than it did when there was a delay for communication relays.