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I haven't read that article but it is telling... Apparently Spielberg struggled with the morals of the story. In my opinion the film is relatively complex in its politics. It is because it plays with the concept of counter-terrorism as good and bad that it rises above being a piece of propaganda for Israel or a condemnation of the same.
I don't think the film goes out of its way to suggest that the whole mess is way more complicated than the author of Vengeance seems to suggest.
The two key scenes that brought the whole film together for me were the scene where Eric Bana's character is speaking with the leader of the Palistinian faction in Greece (the Palisinian says that they will keep fighting until they have their land) and the scene where Eric Bana's character's Mother says that she doesn't want to know what he did, what is important is that they have their land.
Two cultures/nations fighting for the same piece of dirt with the same level of committment. Nothing good can come of this.
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