Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon responded Thursday, 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 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.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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He is wrong that this terrible murderous attack having anything to do with the Olympics other than gaining more notoriety that way. It was a heinous attack on Jews by savage murderers, whose media PR value was intensified by the ongoing games. That’s it.
While I believe the IOC is morally bankrupt anyways, because the savages did murder at the Olympics and therefore there should be some recognition, it’s no surprise that the IOC couldn’t care less, partly due to the reason noted in the above paragraph and partly because of the Halacha BiYadua that Esav Sonei Es Yaakov. Yet the Zionists still insist on fooling themselves like a child pretending you can’t find him if he covers his face.
Zionists don’t understand that their “normalization” and other Zionist fantasies will not happen in the real world, despite the many military and successes they have had and continue to have, biRachamei Shamayim. Hashem wired the world His way, not in accordance with the Zionist worthless and purely pathetic pandering pleading to the nations to accept them (Zionists, of course, are the true “galus Jew”, whom they can’t help but see when they look in the mirror).
The IOC is sending a resounding confirmation (not that it is needed) of Bilam’s nevuah from Hashem: “Hein Am Livadad Yishkon UVaGoyim Lo YisChashav”
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It will be better if we made use of this fact rather then ignore it.
Even if there won’t be an official recognition, Israeli athletes can make this point on their own during the games. Wearing a black stripe on a uniform with the year on it, or the like. Get the right PR behind it and this could take off.