ϟ Deputy Foreign Minister Ayalon blasts IOC refusal to honor murdered Israeli Olympians
40 years ago, at the Games of the 20th Olympiad in Munich, an Olympics that was supposed to ‘make up’ for Hitler’s 1936 Olympics, 11 Israeli athletes were murdered. I grew up with this stuff, but I’m sure that many of you did not.
But the games went on, and for 40 years, Israel has attempted to convince the World that the athletes should at least be remembered with a moment of silence at the beginning of the Olympic games. That has never happened. And IOC President Jacques Rogge has said once again that it won’t happen this year either, 40 years after Munich. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon blasted Rogge on Thursday.
Today (Thursday , May 17, 2012), Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon responded to the letter he received from International Olympic Committee President, Jacques Rogge rejecting his request to hold a minute silence in memory of the members of the Israeli Olympic team murdered at the Munich
Olympics in 1972 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/munich.html
during the upcoming London Olympic Games.
“Unfortunately, this response is unacceptable as it rejects the central principles of global fraternity on which the Olympic ideal is supposed to rest,” Ayalon said. “The terrorist murders of the Israeli athletes were not just an attack on people because of their nationality and religion; it was an attack on the Olympic Games and the international community. Thus it is necessary for the Olympic Games as a whole to commemorate this event in the open rather than only in a side event.”
IOC President Rogge’s reply was in response to Ayalon’s letter, sent a few weeks ago, requesting the minute silence on behalf of representatives of the families, Ankie Spitzer and Ilana Romano, the widows of two of the murdered athletes.
“This rejection told us as Israelis that this tragedy is yours alone and not a tragedy within the family of nations. This is a very disappointing approach and we hope that this decision will be overturned so the international community as one can remember, reflect and learn the appropriate lesson from this dark stain on Olympic history.”
Ayalon passed Rogge’s response to the athletes families, including Spitzer and Romano who advocated for the minute silence. Ayalon told them that the Ministry will in the coming weeks launch a campaign that it is hoped will reverse the decision.
Maybe one of the reasons they don’t want to hold a moment of silence is that the ‘Palestinian’ Olympic team is being sponsored by the same man who sponsored the Munich Olympic Massacre, Abu Mazen. They also may not want to remind anyone that the same Abu Mazen eulogized the massacre’s mastermind.
ϟ Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi again presented as role model for youth
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
The Palestinian Authority practice of honoring Dalal Mughrabi and presenting her as a role model for youth continues. In 1978, a group of terrorists led by Dalal Mughrabi sailed from Lebanon to Israel to carry out a terror attack. They hijacked a bus and killed 37 Israeli civilians.
Palestinian Media Watch has reported that the PA regularly presents Mughrabi as a Palestinian hero and role model by naming sporting events, summer camps and even schools after her.
The following is the news report on the latest event named for Mughrabi:
“The physical education department at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis completed the 12th educational [program] for its scouts team. It was held in cooperation with the university, and under the auspices and with the support of the [PLO’s] Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, at the Martyr (Shahid) Salah Khalaf Center in Al-Fari’a, for 40 male and female scouts…
Participants were divided into four small groups, named for Martyrs: the Martyr Izz a-Din Al-Qassam group; the Martyr Abd Al-Rahim Mahmoud group; the Martyr Bajes Abu Atwan group; and the Martyr Dalal Mughrabi group.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 2, 2012]
The Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, which sponsored the tournament named after terrorists, is a PLO body, whose members were approved last year by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas [Ma’an, Palestinian news agency, April 20, 2011].
Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) - a founder of Fatah and head of the Black September terror group. Attacks he planned included the murder of two American diplomats, as well as the murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
Izz a-Din Al-Qassam - influential Islamic preacher in British Mandate Palestine during the 1930s, who led a Muslim terror group.
Abd Al-Rahim Mahmoud - poet who composed the “Song of the Martyr.” He was killed in 1948 fighting against Israel.
Bajes Abu Atwan - killed fighting against Israel in the ’70s.
Dalal Mughrabi - led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
A planned terror attack in Israel was thwarted on Sunday evening, for the third time in several days. According to a report on Channel 2 News, Border Polices officers arrested a 17-year-old Palestinian Authority Arab teen at a checkpoint near the Tapuach junction in Samaria.
Upon inspection, the teen was found to be in possession of three pipe bombs. The teen was arrested and taken for questioning, while the explosive devices were detonated by sappers in a controlled explosion.
ϟ I am making another declaration.
If you are against the state of Israel, if you are against the nation of Israel, if you believe in a two-state solution with Hamas as the government, if you believe in a one-state solution with a Jewish minority, if you believe Hamas is a bunch of freedom-fighters, if you think Israel is an apartheid state, if you are anti-Zionism, if you think Zionism is Nazism, if you want to drive “all of the Jews in to the sea”, if you think Palestine “deserves” to exist, if you think the Jews stole Israel, if you think Israel is oppressive, you are an enemy of mine, an enemy of freedom, and you cannot be anything other than anti-Semitic.
The Truth.
(via defenderofisrael)
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