In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “book”. Today it says “a 1984 book by george jonas describing part of mossad assassinations following the munich massacre”.
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The opening as it read in 2020
Vengeance is a 1984 book by George Jonas describing part of Operation Wrath of God , the Israeli assassination campaign launched after the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre .1 It was re-released as Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team or Vengeance: Sword of Gideon in some later editions and countries. The main source of the book is also the main character, Yuval Aviv , known in the book as Avner. A Mossad officer, he is recruited to lead a small team into Europe to assassinate a number of suspected PLO and Black September militants. Each of the book's chapters deals with a separate stage of the mission, including the background to each assassination. Although Jonas claimed to have verified Aviv's story as much as possible, critics, including members of the Israeli Intelligence Community , have called into question story's validity.2 It has inspired both a 1986 made for television movie called Sword of Gideon and the 2005 Steven Spielberg film Munich .
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team is a book, first published in 1984, by George Jonas describing part of Israel 's Operation Wrath of God , the Israeli assassination campaign launched after the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre . The main source of the book is also the main character, Yuval Aviv , known in the book as Avner. A Mossad officer, he is recruited to lead a small team into Europe to assassinate a number of suspected PLO and Black September militants. Each of the book's chapters deals with a separate stage of the mission, including the background to each assassination. Although Jonas claimed to have verified Aviv's story as much as possible, critics, including members of the Israeli Intelligence Community , have called into question story's validity. It has inspired both a 1986 made for television movie called Sword of Gideon and the 2005 Steven Spielberg film Munich . v t e v t e
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team is a 1984 book by George Jonas describing part of Operation Wrath of God , the Israeli assassination campaign launched after the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre .In some countries it was published under the title Vengeance: Sword of Gideon . The main source of the book is also the main character, Yuval Aviv , known in the book as Avner. A Mossad officer, he is recruited to lead a small team into Europe to assassinate a number of suspected PLO and Black September militants. Each of the book's chapters deals with a separate stage of the mission, including the background to each assassination. Although Jonas claimed to have verified Aviv's story as much as possible, critics, including members of the Israeli Intelligence Community , have called into question story's validity. It has inspired both a 1986 made for television movie called Sword of Gideon and the 2005 Steven Spielberg film Munich .
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1984 book Vengeance is a 1984 book by George Jonas describing part of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre . It was re-released as Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team or Vengeance: Sword of Gideon in some later editions and countries. The main source of the book is also the main character, Yuval Aviv , known in the book as Avner. A Mossad officer, he is recruited to lead a small team into Europe to assassinate a number of suspected PLO and Black September militants. Each of the book's chapters deals with a separate stage of the mission, including the background to each assassination. It has inspired both a 1986 made for television movie called Sword of Gideon and the 2005 Steven Spielberg film Munich .
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a 1984 book by george jonas describing part of mossad assassinations following the munich massacre
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