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==Controversies==
Some reviewers have criticized ''Munich'' for what they call the film's equating the Israeli assassins with "[[Terrorism|terrorists]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=11809|title='Munich' Refuels Debate Over Moral Equivalency |accessdate=January 6, 2007|last=Ain|first=Stewart|date=December 16, 2005|work=The Jewish Week|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009000948/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=11809|archivedate=October 9, 2007|df=}}</ref> [[Leon Wieseltier]] wrote in ''[[The New Republic]]'', "... Worse, 'Munich' prefers a discussion of counter-terrorism to a discussion of terrorism; or it thinks that they are the same discussion".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wieseltier|first=Leon|date=December 19, 2005|title=Hits|journal=The New Republic |volume=233|issue=4,744|page=38}}</ref>
 
Melman and other critics of the book and the film have said that the story's premise—that Israeli agents had second thoughts about their work—is not supported by interviews or public statements. In an interview with [[Reuters]], a retired head of Israel's [[Shin Bet]] intelligence service and former Internal Security Minister, [[Avi Dichter]], likened ''Munich'' to a children's adventure story: "There is no comparison between what you see in the movie and how it works in reality". <ref>{{Cite news|title=Sharon's aide helps Spielberg promote controversial film|url=https://www.theguardian.com/israel/Story/0,2763,1670523,00.html|work=The Guardian|date=December 19, 2005|location=London|first=Conal|last=Urquhart|accessdate=May 13, 2010}}</ref> In a [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']] magazine cover story about the film on December 4, 2005, Spielberg said that the source of the film had second thoughts about his actions. "There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating," Spielberg said. "It's bound to try a man's soul." Of the real Avner, Spielberg says, "I don’t think he will ever find peace."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1137620,00.html|title= Spielberg Takes on Terror|date=December 4, 2005|work= TIME|author=Richard Schickel}}</ref>