American Portrayal of Basque Terrorists

Yesterday, I went to see the new Spielberg film "Munich". I have to say Steve has more than made up for the mediocre "war of the worlds" and the disappointing "the terminal". Having seen the film in its original version in Spain, it is amusing to see Israeli terrorists fool Palestinians into thinking they are in fact ETA terrorists - an unlikely scenario seeing as those involved look about as basque as I look Outer Mongolian, as well as having quite marked Jewish complexions (at least 3 of them).


In any case - this made me recall a certain MacGyver episode in which our hero fights against a bunch of basque terrorists. Their portrayal is quite hilarious as the props make it look more like Colombia than Europe (straw huts, bananas and the lot), and some of the basques look more like Australian Aborigines rather than anything that could vaguely resemble an Euskaldun. The photo you can see is an image of one of these so called basques and clicking here will take you to an 8 minute clip of the episode. It´s in Spanish, but you get the picture. Enjoy.