I was talking to my dad (I call him Aba) I donβt really know how we got to this point in the conversation but he started talking about operation entebbe that the IDF carried out in the 1970s. Then we watched the movie operation thunderbolt. I donβt know how to describe how it made me feel. It made me think. I donβt think any other country would do something like that to save their own people simply because they are their own people. Maybe it made me feel some sort of pride for being Jewish and half Israeli.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe
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I'm not seeing any connection to Palestine other than he's a Muslim himself. Was he sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, just an anti-Semitic person, or something else? Was there really no good reason?
I mean the fact that he backed up the hijackers with the Ugandan military seems to say to me that he felt this was important.
I learned of this operation in university while speaking to a friend who was doing graduate work in Middle Eastern relations. The whole sequence of events seemed absolutely remarkable to me, and I was surprised to find that few people, even decently informed individuals, were aware of this operation.
I can only speak for people I've spoken with in the northeastern US, Canada and Russia, but many of these individuals were Jewish, and many were relatively well-informed regarding the broader subject. The only people who were specifically aware of Entebbe were my Middle Eastern friends, and each one of them fully believed the narrative and details to largely be a fabrication of Israeli propaganda.
I understand several films were made in Hollywood about Entebbe a few decades ago, but given Hollywood's penchant for historical films, remakes, and wildly inaccurate 'based-on-a-true-story' movies, it is puzzling to me that this is not a 'bigger deal', so to speak. The Wikipedia narrative itself reads like a thrilling covert ops film with a heartbreaking and powerful ending. (I do not share this viewpoint on the operation, I'm just saying that the potential blockbuster story is already there.)
I apologize in advance if my question is too broad, too long, inherently biased, or confused. I understand there is certainly a difference between public perception/knowledge and the motivations and actions of Western entertainment media. This may also not be the ideal subreddit for it, but I wanted to get this forum's opinion. Hopefully there's a historian out there who gets the gist of what I'm asking.
Edit: TL;DR - Why do so few people in the West know about Operation Thunderbolt (Entebbe)? Why is this not a 'bigger deal', especially as something like a potential Hollywood blockbuster?
