Hey, I'm Norm Weisman, and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history,

the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense,

historically fascinating, and confusing events in Israeli history.

All that in just about 20 minutes. Yala, let's do this. We the people of Israel are people.

We, the people of Israel are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.

There are people in Israel elsewhere say it's impossible to make peace between the Arabs and Israel of the

Jewish people. I think they're home.

That's right, it's the 1970s. I wasn't alive them, but a memorable decade for short. You might be thinking

of discos, the counterculture revolution, and Saturday night fever. You may also have no idea what I'm talking about if you're a millennial or younger.

That's cool too.

But the 70s saw another kind of fever.

The epidemic of terrorism.

It's really sad because today perhaps many of us just accept terrorism as a part of current events

Something to be expected

But prior to the 1970s it wasn wasn't really like that. Events across the world, including the

troubles in Northern Ireland and the Argentinian dirty war, contributed to the 70s being termed

the golden age of terrorism.

As it relates to Israel, this is particularly relevant because throughout that decade

Palestinian terrorism reached new levels of intensity and frequency.

The most infamous case of terrorism in the 70s, the one that brought Palestinian terrorism and actually Palestinian

national aspirations into the international arena was the 1972

Munich Olympics massacre in which 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were murdered.

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