Munich Page #4

who survived Munich...

and the Germans said yes,

instantly.

The Arabs would be flown by

private charter plane to Zagreb.

Look.

They're free now.

They're in Libya.

No qualms about rejoicing

on their side, eh?

The Israeli kills the Arabs...

in Egypt, in Jordan,

in Lebanon, in Syria-

Look at them.

They're movie stars.

But did you shoot any

of the Israeli hostages?

It's not important to say

if I killed Israelis or not.

We should go to Tripoli.

Kill them.

We don't go

to Arab countries.

We stick to the names

we've been given.

Mahmoud Hamshari.

Do you think,

looking back on it now...

that you achieved anything

in the Munich operation?

We have made our voice heard

by the world.

Are those your words?

The same thing again.

They have made their voice heard

by the universe or the world...

who has not been hearing

before.

Well, I believe what

he meant by this is...

that now the world

will begin hearing us.

We are, for 24 years, the world's

largest refugee population.

Our homes taken from us.

Living in camps,

no future, no food.

Nothing decent

for our children.

And, so was the attack

in Munich justified?

The PLO condemns

attacks on civilians.

Though for 24 years...

Tell your newspaper that.

...our civilians have been attacked

by the Israelis day after day-

Tell them about all the years

and years of Palestinian blood...

spilled by Israel.

And who mourns for us?

You know,

Israel just bombed...

two refugee camps

in Syria and Lebanon.

Tell them that-

Right after Munich they did

this. It did not begin in Munich.

And where does it end?

How will it ever end?

I'm sorry, I need to use your

phone. I need to call my editor.

Yes, yes. Sorry.

You see it. It's by

the window. Thank you.

This way, please.

This man, we don't know

what he did specifically?

Hamshari arranged the attempted

assassination of Ben-Gurion...

in Copenhagen

a few years ago.

Now he organizes

for Fatah in France.

He organizes?

Yes.

In Tel Aviv they showed you

evidence for this?

Not evidence.

It was more...

this is the story

and I believe them.

Why? Don't you?

It's a crisis, a war.

You don't have to always...

What? Be thinking?

Scrutinize. Yeah, think.

You want to wire Ephraim and

ask for evidence, you do it.

You're on your own.

Okay, I'm done.

Good.

Don't think about it.

Okay.

So, now, I turn it on.

He picks up the phone,

turns on the red light...

then I take out the key,

insert it...

and turn.

So now we wait

for the red light.

Is the truck blocking the signal? No.

Will the remote still work?

Yeah, it's a powerful transmitter.

Go back to your position.

You can't start improvising

now. Go back to your corner.

Don't worry. It's okay.

It's going to work.

Stop!

Stop!

Abort.

Are we on or off?

Mahmoud Hamshari?

Yes.

He's at the hospital Cochin.

I don't know how badly we

hurt him. They aren't saying.

Why did you put a firecracker

in that phone?

Because I didn't want

to blow up the building.

What do you want from me?

An Arab corpse.

Another $200,000, more or less,

to eliminate target number two.

Yeah, if he's been eliminated.

We should stick with guns.

No one notices a shooting.

Bombs achieve

a double objective.

They eliminate targets

and they terrify terrorists.

That only works

when the bombs work.

Lunch?

The Israeli embassy in London

was rocked by a letter bomb...

shortly after 9.:30

this morning.

Dr. Ami Shachori was opening

his morning mail...

when the envelope exploded,

killing him instantly.

They discovered seven in a mailroom

near the embassy in Earls Court.

I guess they missed one.

Right after Hanukkah.

I guess there was a big pileup

of mail and they got careless.

They found other letters

in Israel, of course.

Canada, Argentina, Vienna,

Kinshasa, Paris, Brussels.

Dozens of them, mainly posted

in the Netherlands.

It's all Black September.

It's a response, then.

To Hamshari.

And to Zwaiter.

They're talking to us.

We're in dialogue now.

Where are you?

I'm in New York,

following a lead.

I'll call again.

Are you going

to visit your father?

Why is this taking

so long?

It isn't fast.

We have the best hospitals

in the world.

When you were born, your father

was elsewhere. I was alone.

He was in prison.

Should you be here?

Aren't you on duty?

What are you going to do?

Turn me in?

How is he?

I don't visit

your father so much.

Wilma lets him yell at her

all the time.

She depresses me.

How are you?

I'm managing.

Don't worry about me.

I'm proud

of what you are doing.

You don't know

what I'm doing.

I look at you and I know

everything I need to know.

She is frighteningly

ugly.

She takes after you.

I want you to move,

for a time.

I've arranged a place for us

in Brooklyn.

I can't come back to Israel.

I don't know how long for-

New York?

I can see more of you

this way. New York City?

But I have my family here,

and your parents.

You want my parents

to help raise her?

Look what they did to me.

Don't you want your daughter

to be an Israeli, Avner?

She'll always be an Israeli.

Not in Brooklyn. She'll

just be another homeless Jew.

I can't do what I'm doing

if I can't see you.

What are you doing?

Don't do it then, Avner.

This is our home.

You're the only home

I ever had.

What?

This is so corny.

It wasn't easy for

me to say that. I bet.

Don't laugh at me then.

Why did I have to marry

a sentimentalist?

You're ruining my life.

Your mother's teasing me.

Look at the waistline bulge

on that guy.

Look at that.

Think he might be armed, eh?

As are the Russians.

It's definitely him.

Hussein Abad al-Chir.

His room is next to

Israeli newlyweds.

They married in Cyprus

because she's not Jewish.

A mixed marriage.

A shande for the goyim.

Yeah, okay. But let's

try not to blow them up.

The KGB brings him home

every night after dark.

He turns on the light,

gets undressed...

turns off the light, gets

into bed, we blow up the bed.

I knew a field agent who got

too scared to sleep in his bed.

So every night he slept

on the floor of his closet.

He still does, every night.

Sleeps in closets.

Now if al-Chir sleeps in

his closet, we're in trouble.

But if he gets in the bed,

his weight arms the device...

it closes the circuit.

Then we hit the remote.

Okay.

Okay, we're good.

We're good, let's go.

Careful.

I've checked into the room

next door.

Why?

There are balconies.

When he gets into bed...

I give the signal

by switching off the light.

And if the bomb's too powerful

and you're in the next room?

Well, that won't happen.

Right?

Robert?

Robert?

Robert?

It won't. No.

Okay.

Avner.

Boy or girl?

A girl.

Mazel tov.

News from Paris.

Dr. Hamshari succumbed

to his wounds.

So, again, mazel tov, Avner.

Steve, shut up.

Hey.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Beautiful night.

Beautiful night, yeah.

Where are you from? I can't place

- Dsseldorf.

Yes?

I wouldn't have guessed it.

I thought perhaps a Swede.

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