I have been writing the last few days about the refusal of the International Olympic Committee to hold a moment of silence for the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists 40 years ago at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Personally, I have watched very little of the Olympics over the course of my life because very few of the sports interest me. I feel I have more important reasons for not watching them this year. The only interest I have been able to garner is to see what kind of shenanigans or worse the radical Islamists or terrorists will surprise us with this year. First of all, there are the actual terrorists themselves. I feel there is a definite danger of some sort of repeat of the Munich massacre. Then there is the UK's homegrown problem, people like Anjem Choudary and his band of mopes, who have been promising some sort of disruption. According to the below article, they have just called off a planned protest for the opening ceremony but are promising something to give another black eye to the event .
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/globalpost-blogs/world-at-play/120727/radical-muslim-group-calls-opening-ceremony-protest-a
If this article below doesn't get your blood boiling, nothing will. The article is written by the son of one of the murdered Israelis. It gives you some more background on why the Olympics refuse to honor the slain Israeli team.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/27/why-ioc-will-never-memorialize-72-munich-massacre/
"Gilady informed us that a moment of silence was not possible because if the IOC had a moment of silence for the Israeli athletes, they would also have to do the same for the Palestinians who died at the Olympics in 1972."
Are you still interested in the Olympics? I am not.
Can anyone tell me what Fakistinian athletes were murdered in Munich and by whom?
ReplyDeletePrecisely Findalis. Lawyers use the word "distinguish" for such arguments.
ReplyDeleteOne way to distinguish between the Israelis who died in Munich in 1972 and the Palestinians who died in Munich in 1972 is that the Israelis who died were Olympic athletes and coaches, and none of the Palestinians were. Another is that the Palestinians died trying to kill Olympic athletes and coaches.
So the neutral way to handle this is "a moment of silence for the Olympic athletes and coaches, of whatever nationality, who were murdered by a band of armed men invading the Olympic village, of whatever nationality." And, oh yes, as it happens, all the dead were Israeli. (No Amish, right Miggie?)