Posted on 09/05/2014 3:14:56 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
During the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, in the early morning of September 5, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, killing two and taking nine others hostage. The terrorists were part of a group known as Black September, in return for the release of the hostages, theydemanded that Israel release over 230 Arab prisoners being held in Israeli jails and two German terrorists. In an ensuing shootout at the Munich airport, the nine Israeli hostages were killed along with five terrorists and one West German policeman. Olympic competition was suspended for 24 hours to hold memorial services for the slain athletes.
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Arafat’s gift to the world.
Trading prisoners with Islamics is really stupid
especially at 1,000 to 1...
I remember that day well.
My thoughts have not changed since. Exterminate the barbarians.
It wasn’t just Arafat. It was Abu Mazen. You know, the “moderate” current leader of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria.
Mahmood Abbas financed this operation. Now he leads the Palestinians.
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