International Olympic Committee Rules Out Minute of Silence for 1972 Munich Killings…Again
- Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:14pm by
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(The Blaze/AP) — Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has rejected the latest calls for a minute of silence to be observed at the opening of the London Olympics for the 11 Israeli team members killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Games.
The IOC has come under pressure from politicians in the United States, Israel, and Germany to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre at next Friday’s opening ceremony, even receiving a call from President Obama, according to reports.
Rogge maintains that the IOC will pay homage to the slain Israeli athletes and coaches at a reception in London and will attend a ceremony in Germany on Sept. 5., but there will be no public commemoration at the Opening Ceremony.
“We feel that the Opening Ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident,” he explained.
Yahoo has a “look back” at the horrifying events:
Rogge’s comments have not gone over well with, among others, Bob Costas of NBC, whose network has paid billions for the broadcast rights for the Olympics.
“I intend to note that the IOC denied the request,” Costas told the Hollywood Reporter.
“Many people find that denial more than puzzling but insensitive. Here’s a minute of silence right now,” he continued.
Yahoo Sports relates:
Costas appears to be joining the efforts of Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and Ankie Spitzer, whose husband was among the Munich victims. Ayalon said the IOC refusal of his request to commemorate the victims was “unacceptable.” Spitzer, meanwhile, has been petitioning to have a moment of silence during the Opening Ceremony, to no avail.
“The IOC’s refusal is pure discrimination,” she said.
Spitzer added, according to the New York Post, that the IOC was concerned “the Arab delegations will get up and leave.”
She responded: “It’s OK; if they don’t understand what the Olympics are all about, let them leave.”
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Comments (73)
Lion420
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 8:31amForget discrimination for a sec…this goes deeper than that. This shows a lack of understanding for their own event. The Olympics are supposed to be a symbol of peace among nations, isn’t it? It’s supposed to be sort of a replacement for war. Instead of killing each other, you compete in sporting events. To ignore the violence and murder that took place at this SYMBOL OF PEACE, disrespects much more than the Jewish people…it disrespects the event and the world as a whole. Why? I think I know…they’re afraid to upset those who would do such things…those whose “holy book” commands them to kill those who don’t believe in their “god”. That’s the truth. Stop letting these thugs, these animals bully us all. Stop letting them bully their women and children.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:40amYou made the correct argument, then drew the wrong conclusion. Don’t politicize the games by having the moment of silence. Keep them peaceful.
Report Post »nakedbootleg
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 8:14amSo this is what the Olympics has come to? If you console the Jews the Muslims will blow something up. Seems like the Olympics has run it’s course. Look at the past sites in places such as Bejing & Sarajevo. The venues are ruins. With the efforts now to keep the games safe, why would any country want to host the games? How could you ever turn a profit? There’s enough international competitions out there to where the Olympics and IOC are no longer needed. IMO
Report Post »chingachgook
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 9:43pmIt is sad that anywhere you have a large public gathering it now become a target for politics and violence. I do not know the answer. Of course there has always been a political influence on the event.
Report Post »Willik
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:42amBetcha the Muslim Brotherhood got to him, his family or the entire IOC Committee!
Report Post »Mstr Smith
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:56amThey should do it anyway & follow it up with a 30 second scream against those who hate the Israel & call for its destruction!! Now that would sound great and would show that, we as people will not submit to terrorism in any form or from any Government! A war is coming….!
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:45amWhere have you been? We’ve been fighting wars for Israel since its inception. If we do not stop, you are correct. A big one will come. The rest of the world is getting tired of our bullying for Israel.
Report Post »stillbombshelterbob
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 12:06pmWell! So The_Jerk is an anti-Semite,,,who’d of thought!
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 12:18pmStillbombshelterbob, anti-Semite is the only response a dull mind can produce when the facts do not support his/her fancy. I am by no means an anti-Semite. I am anti-Propaganda and pro-Truth.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 1:46pm@Jerk
Report Post »Israel fought its own wars in 1948, 1967, and 1973. Israel bombed Iraq all by themselves. Israel attacked terrorists in Lebanon twice all by themselves. Which wars are you saying we helped in. We weren’t even part of the Sinai Campaign in the 50s.
barber2
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 2:29pmThe Jerk : has chosen his name well. Only the addition of the word “ arrogant” would have been an even better word choice.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:24pmTZION, good day.
Fact is, Israel did all of that with U.S. equipment, weapons, and money. My money. Our money. And, if you scratch the surface, you will find that Israel used our intelligence and our satellites when it bombed Iraq. Nice try.
It wouldn’t hurt if you did a little more homework on your above mentioned Yom Kippur war. Here’s some help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War#Aid_to_Israel
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:32pmTZION, add this to your library: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2787
And if that is not good enough, take this from an Israeli source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/amnesty-israel-committed-war-crimes-in-lebanon-campaign-1.195683
Report Post »tzion
Posted on July 23, 2012 at 12:23am@Jerk
Report Post »Using American built weapons isn‘t the same as Americans fighting Israel’s wars. Israel buys from many countries including the US and produces some weapons of their own. True there is a lot of US aid going to Israel but in my opinion that‘s primarily a means to get Israel dependent on the US government’s support (with scoring political being a secondary goal). I have no problem with the US lending Israel money if she desperately needs it but I don’t like the idea of a US President having that much influence over a foreign nation, especially Israel.
supermansdad
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 2:05amAnd people are surprised why? Had it been any other nation BUT Israel they would have done this.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 2:59am“Had this been any other nation” – what happened 40 years ago would have been forgotten, but since it was Israel we have to hear about it almost daily.
Great example, ask anyone what they know about WW2, and you will get the same answer “6 million Jews” “Jesse Owens” and the men that won the war “Tuskegee Airmen”
You will never hear about the 10+ million that died of starvation in the Ukraine, thx to Stalin taking all their wheat and this was before Hitler even became unser Fuhrer. After 1930 that number got much higher, too 30+ million
You will never hear what country in the 1936 Olympic’s got the most gold or total medals, not PC to say, I won’t write it if I did my comment gets removed.
And about the Tuskegee Airmen, WOW ! its like a day doesn’t go by without that story not getting shoved down our throat, its like they won the war by themselves.
Take a look at this report from “ABC News” “biggest uprising within the US military” its about a mutiny by 600 black’s on a few white officers, I’ll bet any liberal $100. Reichsmark that this report has never been talked about in any school.
Here is the link to that never talked about report.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-10/historian-reveals-details-on-townsville-mutiny/3821906
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:43amBrasil2520, so true. It’s an industry of perpetual victims.
Report Post »supermansdad
Posted on July 23, 2012 at 2:55amYou forget something major, those people Stalin allowed to starve, most were Jews. The difference lies in the fact that one was rounding up and marching into a death chamber while the other was mostly shipping to a desolate area. Both evil. But you also forget that it is the MSM that supports the Stalin-esque style so of course they cover it up. There was also very little in the way of media in the Ukraine or USSR where as large chunks of American GI’s had cameras with them during the war.
Deceive yourself all you want, I will not. I am under no illusion that the Jews in or out of Israel are in any way perfect. I also realize that “Palestine” is an invented people, they are the Biblical Philistines, they are Arabs just like In Jordan or Kuwait. I also realize that there are more “Palestine” Arabs now than there were in ‘48 or ’67, that the only place they are free to vote or even own property (in the Middle/Near East) is in Israel. None of this is the case in Jordan, Syria or Egypt, where they are treated as 3rd class citizens and refugees.
No, as for me and mine, we will follow the Lord and he as said those that bless Israel will be blessed and those that curse Israel will be cursed. I don’t think he lies on that part.
Report Post »Batjak456
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 10:54pmHA!
“Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has rejected the latest calls for a minute of silence to be observed at the opening of the London Olympics for the 11 Israeli team members killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Games.
“We feel that the Opening Ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident,” he said.
One lousy minute!
The UN…the IOC…there is NO difference.
Ppfffffftt.
HA!
BATJAK456
ALL GAVE SOME
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bankerpapaw
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 10:39pmThe IOC’s attitude toward Israel- – - No way. I’ll bet they would honor some suicide Muslim.
Report Post »Dave In Arizona
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:04pmDon’t give these schmucks any ideas!
Report Post »Idahovet
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:23pmBy declining this gesture to the Israelis , that’s exactly what they are doing.
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 10:03pmWell, NBC, it is your broadcast. If you feel strongly about this, why don’t you program in your own moment of silence into the opening ceremony coverage on Friday. You could do it when Jacque steps up to the mike. Feel free to preface it with an announcement that the IOC couldn’t see fit to do it at the venue. That would put a twist in the IOC’s knickers. I think America would enjoy it. C’mon Costas – get ‘er done!
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 9:04pm…
Report Post »I’m a huge Olympics fan, but I had already decided to not watch the Olympics this year.
I’ve grown sick of the poor media coverage, that most of our great American athletes and my favorite events receive.
nzkiwi
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 9:03pmIt is a sad fact that there is a very real possibility of another terrorist attack at these Olympics. These vicious barbarians are only emboldened by this appeasement – and that is what it is – from an international committee who are ideologically unsympathetic to the west in general and Israel in particular.
Except, of course, when it comes to begging for money
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 12:12amI have heard that stupid statement every Olympics since Munich. I guess if you idiots keep repeating it if it ever does happen you will be so proud to say, “See, I told you so.”
Report Post »supermansdad
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 2:19am@RRFLYER:
What you dont get is that is has happened, or at least they tried to get it happen several times over at virtually every games. It’s those evil stateists cops and intelligence agencies that have continually kept the games mostly safe. Most plots are broken up long before they get to the jumping off point. Situations like Munich are the very reason why the rafters of Cowboy Stadium were full of snipers during the Superbowl. Yet, those that “Hate the State” (Libertarians/anarchists) decried those actions. You can’t have it both ways, it‘s either protect the event and catch flak for it or don’t and another Munich and get blamed for being inept.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 12:34pmThe real haters are bulldozing houses in Palestine and killing their inhabitants. The real haters have been ethnic cleansing since 1948. The real haters have taken a population of people and placed them into ghettos. The real haters are the ones walling in those ghettos. The enabler is America.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 1:54pm@Jerk
Ethnic cleansing? There are more Palestinians today than there were 50 years ago. It is the Palestinians who made it a crime to sell land to Jews. It is the Palestinians who intentionally target civilians and not the military. Who uses hospitals and schools to store weapons? Who uses human shields? Whose logos don‘t acknowledge Israel’s right to exist?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Small_hamas_logo.gif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plo_emblem.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PFLP_flag_smoothed.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plf.png
etc.
Most importantly, who murdered peaceful Olympic athletes?
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:46pmI think right now we have more important matters here at home than the Olympics. Our nation is fragmented , unemployment up, wages down, taxes up, food stamps up, gas prices up, insurance up, foreclosures up, can you think of anymore things. I love God , family and country.
Report Post »DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:39pmI am reading The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor by Paul Kengor and all I can say is pray for our country… This info was in the book: Iran‘s Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Abbas are alumni’s of People’s Friendship University better know as the Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Russia. Another alumni includes Mohamed Boudia, a former top figure in the PFLP, one of the core branches of the PLO. Among Boudia’s most dastardly acts-which involved Mahmoud Abbas-was the murder of the Jewish Olympians in the 72 Munich massacre. Communist and radical Islamists have had a cozy relationship and common goal for a very long time: Destroy the western way of life and destroy their common enemies, America and Israel. By reading this book their is no doubt in my mind today’s Democrats/Progressives/Liberals are Communists. The enemy is within the gates…
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:32pmYoung people need to be reminded of this horror, of this ugliness , and of this same hate that fills our lives today. Young people need to be reminded about the Sadat assassination at the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. Young people need to be reminded of all of the airplane hijackings, of the American Navy man killed, of the Israeli cruise passenger who was thrown off of the ship in his wheel chair. All of this anti-Israel, anti-American, anti-capitalism is so much baloney that the international Lefties have been brainwashing our youth with since the 1960s. The Bill Ayers Crowd of anti-capitalism professional , professorial brainwashers. Used to be called traitors. Now they are called professors and they invest our universities.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 8:52pmYou are exactly correct. This is the most important thing.
The world also needs to demonstrate to the muslim brotherhood that we have neither forgotten nor forgiven. It would be an added bonus if islamist countries were to leave the games as a result, because that would ram the message home to muslims in the Arab world.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:22pmyou’re the ones filled with hate;The muslim brotherhood is now in government in a free egypt. get over the fact that you cannot control the world and its people. They were a civil rights movement fighting on behalf of their people oppressed by dictators and /or colonial meddling .Though i would have no problem with a minute of silence for those massacred -since they were massacred at the olympics.But you haters want to use that, as you say to foment hatred-never forget- how much you hate muslims! you’re the genocidal bigot today!
Report Post »tzion
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 2:04am@Rose
The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist extremist group that would be more than happy to see Israel destroyed. Fortunately they are smart enough not to try right now. Their own words say that. MB members have openly called for a new caliphate with its capital in Jerusalem. Hamas, which openly seeks Israel’s annihilation, is a branch of MB. And don’t tell me Hamas wants a two-state solution when this is their logo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Small_hamas_logo.gif
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 9:45amROSE: There is a difference between “ a hater” and an “idiot.” Anyone who refuses to learn to fight evil is an idiot . Anyone who calls a killer evil, is intelligent. These Palestinians were killers who massacred innocent Israeli athletes . For you to rationalize their evil is idiocy. Period.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 9:50amRose: and by the way, dear , I do NOT hate Muslims. I just hate the behavior of Muslims, or anyone, who kill innocent people to foster their “agenda. ” They are sick, twisted bullies who need to be locked up and taken out of the human gene pool.
Report Post »chingachgook
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 9:52pmHey Rose what have you got to say about the Christians being persecuted and murdered in Egypt now. What will you have to say when your beloved Muslim Brotherhood finally get there wish for complete war in the Middle East. O MY O MY! Am I the only seeing the disaster rising in the Middle East. 31 Of World’s Wars Are Islamic Related
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1732592/posts
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:12pmIf Ron Paul was President and had intelligence (I know… a stretch… “intelligence” I mean) that Jews were about to be massacred in Munich, Germany (sound familiar?) and had the ability and permission to send in some Americans to save them what do we think his answer would be… ??
Report Post »therealconservative
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 9:50pmI’ll take take for 1000, the answer is “I see nottthing.”
Report Post »supermansdad
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 2:24am@THEREAL
Report Post »Correct!
normalmom
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:04pmI don’t watch the opening stuff but I watch certain events and cheer for the Americans. I don’t see why a minute of silence for people lost because of hate is going to “kill” them to do. Insensitive is the best description.
Report Post »freeberty
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:02pmYou know nobody can stop you from taking a minute yourself if you want to, I mean go ahead and take 40 days and nights if you want. I know I would but that would interfere with the minute of silence I have everyday for the 140 Arkansas settlers massacred by the Mormons at Meadow Mountain in 1857.
Not everyone wants to drink your group think Kool-aid.
Report Post »title_of_liberty
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:51pmI applaud you for taking advantage of this article to spread your hate about a completely unrelated subject. (sarcasm)
Report Post »And while I‘m at it why don’t you look up Haun’s Mill, or the endless other examples of brutality against Mormons, or even better look up the Extermination Order that the state of Missouri placed against the Mormons that wasn’t officially repealed until what, the 70′s!!! Imagine how many murderers could have gone free using that!
I am a Mormon and unlike Bert here I want this conversation to stay on subject instead of turning into hate mongering about an unrelated subject, so please, do not reply.
Oh, and Bert… sorry to be rude but… GET A LIFE.
dugbru
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 10:31pmHow much time do you set aside each day to mourn the millions killed by your fellow leftists, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot???
Report Post »Idahovet
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:22pmGood one feeblety…… do you think we should want another helping of your group think cool aid instead ?
Report Post »randy
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:57pmSpitzer added, according to the New York Post, that the IOC was concerned “the Arab delegations will get up and leave.”
GOOD!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 8:15pmAgree. Wish “ the Arabs ” ( who supported Hitler/ Axis in WWII ) would leave and go to some planet..far, far away…just hate and destroy to their hearts’ content…and take our Far Lefties with them…they all share the same dysfunctional, destructive, hate gene…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 8:17pmAmen to that … I remember when this happened .. a moment of silence is not asking for much.
Report Post »randy
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:56pmThe IOC has come under pressure from politicians in the United States, Israel and Germany to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre at next Friday’s opening ceremony of the London Games. The committee even received a call from President Obama, according to reports.
Yeah, I’m sure Obama called.
Wanna bet the POS called to encourage them to rule out the moment of silence?
Boycott the games! And American Athletes should stay home.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 8:56pmYou may well be right, but I would like to think that Mr Obama does have a shred of decency.
Report Post »jackact
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:47pmWhen will the USA learn to dismiss their participation in this politically correct entity?
Report Post »The athletes are ‘juiced’, the IOC are socialists and noboby in our country watches this crap on TV.
Waste of time, money and a false sense of patriotism.
Watch baseball.
Get a life.
Liztaylor1982
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:42pmThe Olympic Committee are being manipulated by certain entities who never win a gold medal or any medal for that matter — they have this committee by the short hairs and are putting the squeeze on this committee to capitulate to their demands. I am offended that not one minute can be given to the deaths of the Israeli athletes — I am so very glad I will not be in attendance — I would not want to give one cent to the IOC. The Olympics have become too politically correct for my liking. USA USA — Israel Israel!!!!
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:39pmWhy we even participate in this crap I will never know. National pride? Sure, we have a lot to be proud of since we moved to Communism….eh Comrade?
Report Post »momrules
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:36pmI remember this well even though it was so long ago. We were all glued to the TV set hoping the hostages would be freed and horrified when the rest of them were murdered too.
I believe that they are denying to one minute of silence to keep from offending the Muslims and because antiSemitism is again at an all time high.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:01pmYou’ve come to the logical conclusion and I share your position as well,Israel shouldn’t participate in the olympics ever again because of this.
Report Post »therealconservative
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:14pm@mom
I believe you are correct. I remember watching as well, I was 10 yrs old.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 7:41pmMOM wrote… “offending the Muslims and because antiSemitism is again at an all time high”
You just ain‘t whistlin’ dixie. Apologizers for Islam and the anti-Semistism/anti-Israel/Israeli sentiment is a mainstay of the Liberal Obama/Rearend Wright/Farrakhan left and the Ron Paul fringe right.
Sad commentary…
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 8:05pmAgree. The world is back in the same state as it was pre-WWII. Never thought we would regress back to that same anti-Semitism. Now it is combined with anti-Americanism and Anti-capitalism. Think I know why the Obama Administration never “ made a fuss” about the Russian spy scandal incident. Think I know why the Russian spy, Mikhail Vasenkov , who was teaching at CUNY and using the alias Juan Lazaro and his Communist Peruvian journalist wife, were so swiftly and quietly escorted back to Mother Russia. Was that an earlier sign of that “ flexibility” Mr. Obama has promised to Mr. Putin…” after the election ?” Hmmmmm…reminds me of those “ hidden school records” and the fact that Obama attended Occidental College, nick-named ” the Moscow of southern California .” Hmmmmm….So many “Hmmmmms” regarding the Obama Administration…
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 8:28pmBARBER2. Former Occidental College mate: Obama an “ardent Marxist-Leninist” http://j.mp/LBDR1j
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:23pmAS If I would watch the terrorist loving Olympics. Our athletes dressed like Che in Chinese clothes?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 8:47pmDon’t you just “ love” those Che berets ? Like all of the tee shirts our clueless young wear ? What the hell was the Ralph L. fashion crew thinking ?? Guess they caught the Far Left virus which seems to be so “ fashionable” these days…. propaganda…Lap Dog Media…Soros funds…brainwashing…Goebbels…old lessons…never learned…
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:17pmand i just ruled out watching a minute of that crap
Report Post »piper60
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 6:17pmCowards!
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