I wouldn't say the comparison was meaningless. The blood toll of Entebbe and Landshut was less, but the public impact was enormous. One must keep the public m

I wouldn't say the comparison was meaningless. The blood toll of Entebbe and Landshut was less, but the public impact was enormous. One must keep the public mood in the back of one's head - this was in 1977, there was a series of attacks by the Red Army Faction, which everyone had thought was dead, and then, just as now, there was the discussion about dragnet surveillance and civil liberties, there was even discussion about the aims of the RAF, perhaps they even had a point. The keyword is "Deutscher Herbst".