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Saturday January 14, 2006 · 5:03 AM PST

2006/01/14 · 05:03

I am a life-long movie fan.

And/but despite the Oscar buzz, I haven't yet seen Spielberg's Munich (although my son has).

Now you should also know that I don't agree with (or even respect) anything Charles Krauthammer writes, OK? But his op-ed in the Post got my attention:

Spielberg makes the Holocaust the engine of Zionism and its justification. Which, of course, is the Palestinian narrative. Indeed, it is the classic narrative for anti-Zionists, most recently the president of Iran, who says that Israel should be wiped off the map. And why not? If Israel is nothing more than Europe's guilt trip for the Holocaust, then why should Muslims have to suffer a Jewish state in their midst?
It takes a Hollywood ignoramus to give flesh to the argument of a radical anti-Semitic Iranian. Jewish history did not begin with Kristallnacht. The first Zionist Congress occurred in 1897. The Jews fought for and received recognition for the right to establish a "Jewish national home in Palestine" from Britain in 1917 and from the League of Nations in 1922, two decades before the Holocaust.

I've often said that Americans (ok, "liberals") have it all wrong when they invoke the story of David (Palestinians) and Goliath (Israelis). All you have to do is look at a map and understand some basic history to see that's hogwash.

And as for those who liken the Palestinians' historial plight to that of Native Americans -- well, they're wrong too. Oh, make no mistake, the analogy is a good one -- it's just that they have casted it all wrong.

In reality, it is the Israelis who are the Indians -- the Indians at Little Big Horn.

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