12:43 am - 07/27/2012
The International Olympic Committee says the opening ceremony of the London Games isn't a 'fit' setting to mark deaths of 11 Israeli athletes. Those who disagree will defiantly stand as IOC chief Jacques Rogge speaks.
They're not asking for much, these two elderly women who lost their husbands to the worst crime in Olympic history.
They're not asking for a speech or a video or even a prayer to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Munich Games.
They're asking for a single minute. One minute. One breath of silence at these London Games' opening ceremony. One brief remembrance of the lives that were lost on a day when terror triumphed over sport. One short but jarring condemnation of that terror.
Why can't the International Olympic Committee just give them that one minute?
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IOC refuses minute of silence for Munich 1972 victims
The International Olympic Committee says the opening ceremony of the London Games isn't a 'fit' setting to mark deaths of 11 Israeli athletes. Those who disagree will defiantly stand as IOC chief Jacques Rogge speaks.
They're not asking for much, these two elderly women who lost their husbands to the worst crime in Olympic history.
They're not asking for a speech or a video or even a prayer to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Munich Games.
They're asking for a single minute. One minute. One breath of silence at these London Games' opening ceremony. One brief remembrance of the lives that were lost on a day when terror triumphed over sport. One short but jarring condemnation of that terror.
Why can't the International Olympic Committee just give them that one minute?
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I don't like the author using this comparison. This moment of silence occurred one year after the tragedy and the Olympics were taking place in the same country where the attacks occurred. I'm not sure how I feel about the issue as a whole, though, as I can see the arguments from both sides.
We get it, brah. You hate Arabs.
sarcasm
op's views aside
olympic stuff is posted here all the time
/sarcasm
/pro-Palestine Jew
I see we're playing oppression olympics.
i stumbled upon it while i was looking for documentaries about the beslan school shooting (there's a documentary called THREE days in september) but it was really interesting
On the other hand, I really side eye Israel and its policies... I don't have tons of knowledge to go into in depth arguments to be honest though.
I am tornnnnn!
Edit: And commemorating the memory of those people who died because they came to a sporting event while happening to be from the wrong country is in no way endorsing Israel, no matter what these ignorant fucks think.
Edited at 2012-07-26 11:46 pm (UTC)
In the end though, it is a tragedy and it should be honoured.
what a douche