Your child has finally earned enough money to purchase their own PSP system—you know he has wanted it for a long time, but you could not justify in your mind another gaming system in the house. The technology keeps changing faster than you can afford to buy the system himself, but you forgot one important thing that he did not. He did buy system, but you did not tell him that he had to buy his own games and accessories.

Children are smart today and will use any technicality they can to their best advantage. Okay, you were a sucker, but such is life. How much could a few PSP accessories cost? Well, you could be surprised because there are more than a few accessories available. So where do you start? To begin with, make a decision on how many are needed-you could go to the poor house if you let your child decided on which accessories he needs. Remember, there is a big different between 'needs’ and ‘wants'- but children do not quite get this concept. PSP accessories are any additional items that are compatible with the PSP. It can include many different types and styles for each of the following: * headphones, * speakers, * carrying cases, * hand straps and neck lanyards, * skins, sticker decals, * memory sticks, carrying cases for UMD, and * faceplates Then there is the glare shield, optional lens cleaner, UMD disk cleaner, memory card reader, backup battery, hand grips, AC adapter, cables, battery chargers and the list goes on and on and on. And, you can literally spend hundreds of dollars for these different accessories.

Before heading out to the store, figure out how much you want to spend and make sure that the PSP accessories being purchase are really needed. A faceplate is nice, but not necessary to play with the system and to enjoy it. However, a batter charger and backup is very important to keep the system going and an USB cable is needed to facilitate downloads of games, movies, pictures and other items from the internet. Okay, now you are really confused and just want to get him some. Now, off to the store you go. Remember to take your charge card! During the 1972 Olympic male masturbation Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack. The movie recounts their brutal acts, but much more important, their Jewish ambivalence toward these acts.

Some general reflections are in order. First, Golda Meir, former Israeli Prime Minister, once said to Egyptian President Anwar Saddat just before Israeli-Egyptian peace talks: “We can forgive you Arabs for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.” That is the crux of the movie. Five Israelis volunteer to avenge the murder of their fellow Israelis, but some of them quickly begin to feel a sense of “fear and trembling” when we talk about the killing of another human being, even an enemy. Munich presents us with their differing views of retribution, allowing us to make up our own minds while we watch their human struggles at what they are called upon to do. You can see them develop as moral actors who are confronted with their consciences before each and every murderous action or suicide bombing anywhere in the world. Now that we have the State of Israel, Jewish blood is no longer cheap. But please note, the Rabbis of the Talmud never interpreted this text as meaning precise retributive justice, rather they understood the punishment for blinding someone to be a monetary one instead. Many pages in the Talmud explicate how exactly we estimate the value of human life.

I have a friend who is extremely close with the Head of the Israeli Air Force. The general said to my friend last week that many of his pilots categorically refuse to kill innocent civilians, rather they must have irrefutable evidence that their bombs will fall on adult combatants or they will stay home. Whatever your opinions on this may be, you cannot help but wonder—where are others with this same attitude and respect for human life? Where are the other mothers and fathers whose sons feel the same ambiguity as our Israelis do? How long will it take before Israel can talk with neighbors who will share their concerns about the fragility and the sacredness of human life? I believe that there must be a sense of moral repugnance at having to take the life of another human being, and it is this precise feeling which comes across loudly and clearly in Spielberg’s movie. Go see it and decide for yourself. It is a hard movie to watch, and well worth it..