40th anniversary minute of silence for slain Israeli athletes refused at London 2012
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So you want me to have sympathy for the nation that has turned the Palestinian's remaining homeland into the largest concentration camp in history. Giving Jewish fanatics such power after having suffered the Holocaust was never going to end well for whoever they took it out on. Now Palestine gets to suffer at the hands of Israel's very own version of the Third Reich.
1 minute of silence? they can suck my balls.
1 minute of silence? they can suck my balls.
It's absurd to want something that has never happened before and to link Munich to London, it would set the wrong tone. The Olympics is meant to be a politically neutral sporting event. In some cases of course it is not but it certainly doesn't need any more shoving towards being a political statement centre.
If there had been a minutes silence at every other Olympics perhaps you might remotely have a point to protest about it not being at London (though I for one would have said why in the first place) but it has never happened before why tarnish an event with a memory of a terrorist act or anything else in a similar vein?
The Munich massacre was a terrible event but the idea every Olympics has to be a focus for recalling it seems simply silly.
If there had been a minutes silence at every other Olympics perhaps you might remotely have a point to protest about it not being at London (though I for one would have said why in the first place) but it has never happened before why tarnish an event with a memory of a terrorist act or anything else in a similar vein?
The Munich massacre was a terrible event but the idea every Olympics has to be a focus for recalling it seems simply silly.
Ok. So Spektor reckons that because they were Jews they should not be respected. There is a term for people like you. You must really regret not being brought up in Nazi Germany to teach all them Jews a lesson, huh?
You strike me as truly enlightened.
You strike me as truly enlightened.
lolwat.
I should have trusted my gut on the OP being a mental-case at the sight of the cut&paste wall of troll he began with
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lolwat.
I should have trusted my gut on the OP being a mental-case at the sight of the cut&paste wall of troll he began with
Your post was stupid too.
Those athletes aren't their state, you're a moron.
Those athletes represent their state... but where did I condone their murder? or w/e mad stuff OP was accusing me of. It's merely a case of the Olympics not being a political platform for some nation to advance an agenda - regardless of circumstances - and especially not Israel given their track record. So if you think the Olympics should start letting any crackpot nation run by fanatics to start waving it's desired victimhood about, then damn, maybe I'd be glad to be a moron to oppose that.
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So let the brave Olympians who died be remembered with a minutes silence whilst the thousands of Palestinians civillians killed by the Israelis are merely 'collateral damage'. And you have the nerve to accuse others of hypocricy and double standards?!
Absolutely this. 100% this. I've had enough of Israel.
This sums it up rather nicely.
And this also!
Close thread.
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Stupid idea, keep politics out of sport.
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Perhaps you should learn to look harder? Jerusalem is not and never has been the capital of Israel
I don't think so sonny, it is about Israel
Red is only a lovely colour when combined with green, black and white . . .
Brilliant video, worth posting every time Israel is mentioned
Lol at the crying girl, How delusion'd can one be?
Nothing specifically except that up to now, there has never been an official recognition of the tragedy for the families of those Olympians involved. I will reiterate again, that the IOC has seen fit to mention the Bosnian Herzegovian conflict which had absolutely nothing to do with the Olympics, they acknowledged the victims of 9/11 which had nothing to do with the Olympics, they acknowledged the death of a Georgian Olympian in a training accident BUT 11 Israeli Olympians who were abducted from the Games and murdered and the German policeman are not.
I am trying to understand the justice. These people were not involved in politics, were not fighting a war but were merely competing in the Olympics in the spirit of the Games.
Unlike the BS the posters above are trying to throw into the mix, this is not about politics. Whatever their thoughts on the policies of the State of Israel, misguided as they are, this has nothing to do with that. What if 11 Turkish athletes were murdered by the Syrian team, or if the North Koreans blew up the South Korean apartments or something similar? Extreme but conceptually very similar. Should we not acknowledge the deaths of the Turks because a Turkish plane entered Syrian airspace or the Turkish government gives refuge to the Free Syrian Army? Should we not mourn for the South Koreans just because North and South Korea are technically at war?
That is the point. It is not about politics of a state which many people are failing to get. If it was 11 athletes from Rwanda who had the heads chopped off by a rogue Burundi element there would be a minute of silence and no one would blink an eye. All the negative comments raised here are in reference to it being Israeli athletes who were murdered and they are condemning them because they do not agree with the policies of the State of Israel. They are the ones bringing politics into the discussion.
It is about Olympians murdered whilst taking part at the Olympics in the spirit of the Olympics. Is that so hard to get ones head around?
Unfortunately, it seems because it was Israeli's (and of course the one German Policeman) many people seem to be frothing at the mouth and perhaps they need to examine their ethics and motives.
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