Documentary: Operation Wrath of God

An interesting film about a secret operation done by the Mossad to assassinate individuals alleged to have been directly or indirectly involved in the 1972 Munich massacre in which 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were murdered.Their targets included members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, who were responsible for the Munich attack, and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) accused of being involved. Authorized by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the autumn of 1972, the operation may have continued for more than 20 years.Covert Israeli assassination units killed dozens of terrorists and conspirators across Europe during this time, as well as mistakenly murdering an innocent waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, in what became known as the Lillehammer affair. An additional military assault was launched by Israeli commandos deep inside Lebanon to kill several high-profile Palestinian targets.

More background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wrath_of_God 

On 'Meghnad Badh Kabya' (The Poem of the Killing of Meghnad)

Ok. Let's go a little farther today in reading 'The Poem of the Killing of Meghnad' - 'an epic in blank verse' written by Michael Madhusudan Dutt - which has Ravan's warrior son Meghnad as the tragic protagonist. Important to mention, according to Madhusudan's inventive mind, Meghnad - the invincible Meghnad who could be killed only by a kausal (trick) - was killed by Rama's brother Lakshman in a temple, which violated Kshatriya war code.

"Meghnad instantly seized the divine sword - but he could not lift it. He pulled at the bow - it remained in Lakshman's hand. He angrily grasped the shield, but his efforts were useless..."

Maybe I am on the verge of finding in Meghnad another hero of mine like I did in the past in Homer's Achilles, Weiss' Auguste Rodin, Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Kalidasa' Shakuntala.

Off to reading anyway. :)

(Excerpts from my diary, 15 January 2013)

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R
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On Tatyana's Unrequited Love; Onegin Stanza/Pushkin Sonnet

"Hours pass; no answer; waiting, waiting.
No word: another day goes by.
She's dressed since dawn, dead pale; debating,
demanding: when will he reply?"

Four weeks gone since I finished reading Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" for the second time, I remain guided with a fancy to write a poem on Tatyana -- the heroine of the tragic novel in verse -- who would spend many nights sitting on a window in her house, moon-watching and spontaneously shedding tears and thinking of her unrequited love for an arrogant aristocrat Onegin (the protagonist of the book).

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Although fascinated by uncomplicated Shakespearean rhymic pattern, I wish to follow this time the highly unusual and rarely used Pushkin Sonnet form ("A-b-A-b-C-C-d-d-E-f-f-E-g-g") for Tatyana.

Useful reading on Onegin Stanza/Pushkin Sonnet:

http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=604
http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1067
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onegin_stanza

R
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