Munich and revisionism.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)

To the editor:

As a "balanced" review with a tenuous grasp of the facts, Herta Newman's "Much Ado About Munich" falls into the same traps as Munich itself. Given producer Steven Speilberg's valued contributions to the Jewish community with "Schindlers' List" and the Holocaust archives, it pains me to criticize his current work.

But today's battleground is the more morally complex issue of Israel, which acts as a kind of Rorschach test of our own Jewish identity. Is Israel a "tragically flawed" "occupier" of someone else's land, "oppressing" the natives and