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Israel Olympics Widows To IOC: "Shame On You" - Petition Eyes London Closing Ceremony
Israel News Agency / Google News ^ | August 6, 2012 | Joel Leyden

Posted on 08/07/2012 5:45:55 AM PDT by IsraelBeach

Israeli Olympics Widows To IOC: "Shame On You" - Petition Eyes London Closing Ceremony

By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

Jerusalem, Israel --- August 6, 2012 ... The terrorism which marked the 1972 Munich Olympics as the "bloody Olympics" still has a grip on the London Olympics today. But rather than witnessing guns, knives and grenades by Palestinian terrorists, we now have a front row view of the IOC being held hostage by Arab political terrorism.

Eleven Olympians were murdered in the 1972 Games but one would never know it by attending stadium events in London which are broadcast to billions worldwide. IOC President Jacques Rogge had refused the requests of Olympic widows, the President of the United States, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and several other nations and leaders to hold a moment of silence during the London Opening Ceremonies.

“We feel that the opening ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident,” Rogge said a week before the London Olympics were to start. Yet, there was a minute of silence during the Opening Ceremony for British citizens who died during the 7/7 Islamic terror bombings in London.

The head of the Palestinian Olympic Committee, Jibril Rajoub, sent Jacques Rogge a letter during the week thanking him for silencing the Jews. Rajoub spent almost two decades in Israeli prisons for directing terrorism in the Middle East.

What are we missing here?

It's okay to remember British citizens who perished in terror attacks, but not Jews from Israel. Is the word discrimination to be applied here? How about racist? How about just plain anti-Semitism!

The IOC gave into Arab terrorism by ignoring their own family members. That 40 Arab, Islamic nations have blackmailed the International Olympic Committee by stating that if the Jews are mentioned they will go home. The IOC had to make a decision - the dead Jews or keeping Arabs in London? They chose the Arabs.

As the widow of Israeli fencing coach Andrei Spitzer, Ankie Spitzer asked: "Is that the Olympic spirit which is supposed to promote peace, brotherhood and fair play?"

The audience of 850 people in London’s Guildhall responded to Spitzer with a standing ovation and broke out in thunderous applause.

But this applause and the 100,000 people who signed a petition coordinated by the JCC Rockland in New York, calling for a moment of silence by the IOC for the Munich 11, were completely ignored.

But let's try to give Rogge a way out here. Perhaps he may have been correct in avoiding a walkout by 40 Arab nations which could have destroyed the Modern Games. But what if that minute of silence was held during the Closing Ceremony?

What would happen? The Arabs using political terrorism to dictate the modern Olympics would be going home any way.

A new petition sponsored by two groups 1 Minute for 11 Olympians on Facebook and Minute4Israel.com are now gaining social media strength in calling for a minute of silence for the murdered Olympians during the Closing Ceremony in London.

If Rogge listens to these groups which represent Israelis, Jews, Christians and the Olympic family of nations which are not bowing to political terrorism, then we know that the Olympic spirit of fair play is still alive.

If there is no minute of silence for the dead Olympians during the London Closing Ceremonies, we will then know that it is only pure, racist anti-Semitism which rules the IOC, not the Arabs who murdered men who came to play sport in peace.

The 11 Israelis murdered in Munich were Yossef Romano, Moshe Weinberg, Ze’ev Friedman, David Berger, Kehat Shorr, Yakov Springer, Mark Slavin, Andre Spitzer, Eliezer Halfin, Yossef Gutfreund and Amitzur Shapira.

One of the sons of the dead Olympians had this to say in a recent interview: "Now, I have a message to all the members of the IOC. The torture inflicted by “Black September” on the 11 Israeli athletes and their families took 48 hours. Your torture of the families and the memories of those esteemed athletes has lasted 40 years. I am not satisfied with a moment of silence in every Opening Ceremony of the Summer Games. Now I want all of you to lose your jobs and be replaced by real Olympians who care about the athletes and believe in the Olympic charter."

Weinberg concluded: "The threat of the IOC coming after me does not scare me anymore. When you have no more dignity, you have nothing to lose. So, members of the IOC - my name is Guri Weinberg and I am the son of Moshe Weinberg, the wrestling coach murdered at the 1972 Olympics. And I am not going away."

Guri, you will not be alone.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ioc; islamismurder; israel; jihadismurder; londonolympics; munich; olympics; waronterror

1 posted on 08/07/2012 5:46:05 AM PDT by IsraelBeach
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To: IsraelBeach

The IOC is beyond shame - shamelessness is a job requirement. Personally I feel the politics have long since eclipsed the athletics. I’m grateful for our athletes like Michael Phelps, Missy Franklin, and Gabriella Douglas, but the stench of PC and kowtowing to the Third World is impossible to abide.


2 posted on 08/07/2012 5:55:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: IsraelBeach
a walkout by 40 Arab nations which could have destroyed the Modern Games

Really? A commemoration of Munich 1972 would have caused a walkout by 40 Arab nations? Sounds like a twofer. Since when can they play sports anyway?

3 posted on 08/07/2012 6:21:24 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Rummyfan

The IOC has no b@ll$ and their attitude led to Hitler’s concentration camps. I agree ALL OF THEM should lose their jobs !


4 posted on 08/07/2012 6:27:38 AM PDT by CORedneck
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To: IsraelBeach

Mr. Weinberg had more to say. MUCH more....

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Monday, July 30, 2012
Guri Weinberg: Why the IOC will never memorialize the 72 Munich massacre

Why the IOC will never memorialize the ‘72 Munich massacre
By Guri Weinberg Published July 27, 2012 FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/27/why-ioc-will-never-memorialize-72-munich-massacre/#ixzz225vKymi2

Recently, new information about the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Olympic
Games was released by German police as a result of pressure from German
investigative reporters. It was reported that the “Black September”
terrorists were helped by a Nazi group in Germany to get fake IDs, weapons
and access to the Olympic Village.

This was not too shocking, as the head of the IOC in 1972 was Avery
Brundage, a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite. His protege, Juan Samaranch,
eventually served the second longest IOC term as president, but his support
of Nazis and the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was kept a dirty secret.
Most IOC members knew the truth but stayed silent because he organized a
regal lifestyle for them — with money diverted from sport.

Another interesting fact is that Abu Iyad, one of the co-founders of the
PLO, has said publicly that the reason “Black September” chose the 1972
Olympics as the stage for their hostage plot was because the PLO’s request
to the IOC for inclusion of the Palestinian delegation at the Olympic Games
was completely ignored. This snub from the IOC came at a time when tension
was at a boiling point in the Middle East. Yet, having incited the PLO, the
IOC denied the Israeli government’s request for security for the athletes.

In 1996, I, along with other Munich orphans and three of the widows, were
invited for the first time to the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Before the
Opening Ceremony, we met with Alex Gilady. Gilady has been a member of the
IOC’s Radio and Television Commission since 1984 and has been the senior
vice president of NBC Sports since 1996.

I have known Mr. Gilady since I was a kid; in fact, I grew up with his
daughter. He had been supportive in the past regarding our plea for a moment
of silence during the Opening Ceremonies, so we arrived with high hopes.
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.

My mother said, “But no Palestinian athletes died.”

Gilady responded, “Well, there were Palestinians who died at the 1972
Olympics.”

I heard one of the widows say to Gilady, “Are you equating the murder of my
husband to the terrorists that killed him?”

Silence.

Then Ilana Romano burst out with a cry that has haunted me to this day. She
screamed at Gilady, “How DARE you! You KNOW what they did to my husband!
They let him lay there for hours, dying slowly, and then finished him off by
castrating him and shoving it in his mouth, ALEX!”

I looked at Gilady’s face as he sat there, stone cold with no emotion. This
man knew these athletes personally. This man led the Israeli media
delegation at the 1972 Olympics and saw this atrocity first hand. This man
saw my father’s dead, naked body thrown out front of the Olympic Village for
all the world to see.

Without a hint of empathy, Gilady excused himself from our meeting.

That’s when I understood that the IOC wasn’t turning us down because of
their resistance to :politics.” Rather, it was due to the specific politics
the IOC apparently still embraces. Based on its history of Nazi support,
greed and the blood on their own hands for inciting the PLO, they would
never support Israeli athletes.

Now, I have a message to all the members of the IOC. The torture inflicted
by “Black September” on the 11 Israeli athletes and their families took 48
hours. Your torture of the families and the memories of those esteemed
athletes has lasted 40 years. I am not satisfied with a moment of silence in
every Opening Ceremony of the Summer Games. Now I want all of you to lose
your jobs and be replaced by real Olympians who care about the athletes and
believe in the Olympic charter.

The threat of the IOC coming after me does not scare me anymore. When you
have no more dignity, you have nothing to lose. So, members of the IOC — my
name is Guri Weinberg and I am the son of Moshe Weinberg, the wrestling
coach murdered at the 1972 Olympics. And I am not going away.


5 posted on 08/07/2012 6:36:15 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: IsraelBeach

And a moment of silence for all the gays executed by Arab nations, and then a bell toll for every woman executed for such crimes as driving a car, showing a wrist, daring to talk to another human...

40 years; for all that was awful about the opening ceremony, the remembering of the terrorism that took place in Britain had far more relevance.


6 posted on 08/07/2012 6:40:39 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
“How DARE you! You KNOW what they did to my husband! They let him lay there for hours, dying slowly....

I had no idea, I had no idea...

I remember following this drama on television and radio hour by hour, but nothing like that was ever released. As usual the media let us down... Thank God for citizen journalists.

7 posted on 08/07/2012 6:52:40 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: IsraelBeach

For the Closing Ceremony... Rather than march behind their flag, the Israeli team should carry 11 flag draped coffins.


8 posted on 08/07/2012 6:55:17 AM PDT by lack-of-trust
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To: IsraelBeach

I have a question I hope someone can answer. Have previous summer olympics since 1972-Munich held a moment of silence in memory of those murdered in 1972? If not, then why hold these olympics to a different standard? Or if there have been previous observances at the summer olympics in 76, 80, 84, etc., then I can understand the outrage for not doing so this time around.


9 posted on 08/07/2012 6:56:56 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: Mean Maryjean

No, never. The reason, as you can glean from reading post #5, can be stated in two words: Brundage, Samaranche. And post #5 also gives you an inside into how the IOC reasoned in 1996 - and most probably now as well.


10 posted on 08/07/2012 7:04:35 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Mean Maryjean

This year’s the fortieth anniversary. Because of the every four years of the Olympics, you don’t always hit that symbolic a year.


11 posted on 08/07/2012 8:18:39 AM PDT by mockingbyrd
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To: Mean Maryjean

This year’s the fortieth anniversary. Because of the every four years of the Olympics, you don’t always hit that symbolic a year.


12 posted on 08/07/2012 8:19:01 AM PDT by mockingbyrd
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To: mockingbyrd; Mean Maryjean
This year’s the fortieth anniversary. Because of the every four years of the Olympics, you don’t always hit that symbolic a year.

Yes, but there has been other symbolic years like 1976 and 1992. However, there have always been excuses.... So every memorial cermony has been on the quiet like. Disgusting, but just what you can expect from tranzi organizations like the IOC, the UN or the EU.

Eleven Israeli athletes remembered

The families reject the official reasons they've been given for why this cannot happen. At Montreal in 1976, they said they were told the reason was that the Arabs would leave. At Barcelona in 1992, it was an unwillingness to bring politics into the games. At Atlanta in 1996, the reason was protocol. At Athens in 2004, organizers said it was not the appropriate time.

13 posted on 08/07/2012 8:50:23 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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14 posted on 08/07/2012 12:03:27 PM PDT by SJackson (I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people people die of natural causes)
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To: lack-of-trust

Brilliant! From your mouth to G-d’s ears.


15 posted on 08/07/2012 12:45:46 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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