"'Sports are a bridge to love, interconnection, and spreading peace among nations; it must not be a cause of division and spreading of racism between them.' With these words the President of the Palestinian Olympic Committee, Jibril Rajoub, began a special letter which he sent to president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge. He expressed appreciation for [Rogge's] position, who opposed the Israeli position, which demanded a moment's silence at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London. He said that his position not to politicize sports, and his determination to implement the International Olympic Charter represents a victory for freedom in sports. It should be noted that Rogge once again expressed the position of the executive office of the International Olympic Committee, which opposes the idea of holding a moment's silence during the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, to mark the anniversary of the Munich operation, which took place during the Munich Olympics in 1972."
You just can't make this crap up. I also love how they refer to it as the "Munich Operation". See it's okay, it was just an operation! Not the murder of innocent athletes who only wanted to life weights, wrestle and fence at the Games. Anyway, just another thing to put in the "Palestinians shouldn't have a state" bin.
even better (sarcasm)
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Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936:
Inauguration of the Olympic Torch Relay
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007451
The 1936 Games were the first to employ the torch run. Each of 3,422 torch bearers ran one kilometer (0.6 miles) along the route of the torch relay from the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece, to Berlin. Former German Olympian Carl Diem modeled the relay after one that had been run in Athens in 80 B.C. It perfectly suited Nazi propagandists, who used torch-lit parades and rallies to attract Germans, especially youth, to the Nazi movement. The torch itself was made in 1936 by Krupp, a German company better known for its production of steel and armaments.
and now coffee machines…
Not only did we keep that, but we even kept the philosophy and so forth.. which makes that a triumph… or shall i say “triumph of the will”
Fritz Schilgen was a German athlete and the final torchbearer of the first Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Summer Games.
He was chosen by the organizers of the relay as a “symbol of German sporting youth” and for his beautiful and graceful running style, as determined by the aesthetics commission. Schilgen’s dramatic lighting of the flame in the Olympic Stadium is captured in Olympia, a Nazi propaganda film about the Games by Leni Riefenstahl, who also helped devise the torch relay and select Schilgen as final torchbearer.
Schilgen himself did not compete in the Olympics.
(but he does have 35 patents)
Leni had a weird thing for torches…
skiers with torches…
and the end of triumph of the will is a torch scene.
so its funny you should say that…
and this post
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That they still do – in memory of what?
But give memory to the Israeli athletes that were murdered on this 40th anniversary … nope…
The Munich massacre is an informal name for an attack that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September
German newspaper Der Spiegel wrote in a front-page story in 2012 that the German authorities had a tip-off from a Palestinian informant in Beirut three weeks before the massacre. The informant told Germany that Palestinians were planning an “incident” at the Olympic Games, and the Foreign Ministry in Bonn viewed the tip-off seriously enough to pass it on to the secret service in Munich and urge that “all possible security measures” be taken.,
at this point, i draw your attention to another interesting defector. Pacepa..
Wall Street Journal, Saturday, January 12, 2002
The Arafat I Knew
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/comartin/israel/pacepa-wsj.html
In 1972, the Kremlin established a “socialist division of labor” for supporting international terrorism. Romania’s main clients in this new market were Libya and the PLO. A year later, a Romanian intelligence adviser assigned to the PLO headquarters in Beirut reported that Arafat and his KGB handlers were preparing a PLO commando team headed by Arafat’s top deputy, Abu Jihad, to take American diplomats hostage in Khartoum, Sudan, and demand the release of Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Robert Kennedy.
“St-stop th-them!” Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu yelled in his nervous stutter, when I reported the news. He had turned as white as a sheet. Just six months earlier Arafat’s liaison officer for Romania, Ali Hassan Salameh, had led the PLO commando team that took the Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympic Games, and Ceausescu had become deathly afraid that his name might be implicated in that awful crime.
interesting.. but here is the punchline
In January 1978, the PLO representative in London was assassinated at his office. Soon after that, convincing pieces of evidence started to come to light showing that the crime was committed by the infamous terrorist Abu Nidal, who had recently broken with Arafat and built his own organization. “That wasn’t a Nidal operation. It was ours,” Ali Hassan Salameh, Arafat’s liaison officer for Romania, told me.
and from another wiki
in 1969 alone, 82 planes were hijacked worldwide by the KGB-financed PLO.
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“Killing one Jew far away from the field of battle is more effective than killing a hundred Jews on the field of battle, because it attracts more attention.”
George Habash leading member of the Palestine Liberation Organization until 1967
So if you were ever confused by the left here and in England and so forth backing the PLO and disliking Israel, and so on… your a lot less confused now…
would you believe there is actually more from others that fill in other blanks. but for the most part the left is supporting the international left…