Congress Gets in Game to Slam IOC for ‘Indefensible’ Anti-Israel Stance
Congress is getting involved in the fight to observe a moment of silence for the Munich 11 at this summer’s Olympic Games, with new House legislation and two leaders slamming the International Olympic Committee’s refusals as “indefensible.”
“Your refusal has caused sorrow and anger for the family members of the murdered Olympians, for the people of Israel, and for many other people across the globe,” House Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Ranking Member Howard Berman (D-Calif.) wrote today to IOC president Jacques Rogge.
“Many of us have not forgotten that when the IOC held a service after the murder of the Israeli Olympians in 1972, your predecessor as President of the IOC failed even to mention them in his remarks,” they added. “The IOC’s actions on this matter since then have done little to erase that memory.”
The families of the victims of the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches killed by Palestinian terrorists have been urging the IOC to hold a minute of silence for four decades, to no avail, noting that the IOC has expressed fears of angering Arab states. The state of Israel, through a letter from Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, asked Rogge to hold the tribute.
Rogge restated the IOC’s consistent refusal in a May 15 letter to Ayalon. “The IOC has officially paid tribute to the memory of the athletes on several occasions,” Rogge said. “Within the Olympic family, the memory of the victims of the terrible massacre in Munich in 1972 will never fade away.”
On Monday, the IOC defended its rejection of a memorial minute, claiming yet again that they regularly honor the slain Israelis.
The IOC has never held a ceremony for the slain Israelis at the Olympic Games, but sends a representative to the ceremony held by the Israel National Olympic Committee at each Games. Ayalon said the response “told us as Israelis that this tragedy is yours alone and not a tragedy within the family of nations.” Berman and Ros-Lehtinen called the attendance at the Israelis’ own ceremony “insufficient.”
Arutz Sheva noted late last month that the IOC’s official website for the London Olympics listed Jerusalem as the capital of “Palestine” while listing no capital for Israel. It then reversed the capitals, but listed Palestine in Asia and Israel in Europe. A check reveals the classifications are still there.
No big loss, imo, if the Arab countries boycott. Time for the IOC to do the right thing at last.
” Time for the IOC to do the right thing at last”
Dont hold your breath…
Replace “IOC” with “The Western World” in terms of just acknowledging who these bastards are, and what drives them.
Munich 72 was a major victory for them. So was 9/11.
Because we never to “the right thing”
the olympic committee really does need to man up. the 11 israeli olympians died at the hand of arabs, were murdered on the IOC watch.
there were athletes who did go home, regardless of their politics. i recall in the documentary their shocked and horrified faces and trying to understand how it was possible to go on. were they supposed to ignore murders so sickening. so vicious.
abbas, who the israelis were having “peace” talks that never got off the ground, was the one who thought up this unspeakable evil and implemented it. he and that other scum, arafat, the egyptian who stole the money from his “people” and put it in a swiss bank. (the swiss, yet another story for the history books).
when i see abbas breathing and walking around and those murderers hamas, who are really just the PLO, looking once again for money and power, i imagine abbas and his cohorts hanging from a tree and rotting to death.
it’s time to take an important moment from the fkn games to focus on the horror of that day in september and speak out about who committed this dark and heinous act.
and, for every subsequent olympics.
Resolve has disappeared on the political Left of today. They would’ve been afraid of angering the Japanese by responding to Pearl Harbor. I personally don’t give a squat who gets angered by my convictions.
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“noting that the IOC has expressed fears of angering Arab states.”
Too d4mn bad. If you’re going to walk out over a minute of silence for murdered Olympians I’d just urge you to run out.
The IOC has never been known for taking an ethical stance, so it’s latest refusal to honor the dead Israeli athletes is no surprise.
“Your refusal has caused sorrow and anger for…
Caused sorrow and anger for whom, Madame Chairwoman? I axe you that. For the billions of Infidels who live under the same policy, regardless of country, because of the threat of yet another mass murder?
The IOC is only doing what everybody else is doing, including your party leadership, including Mitt. Moslems are an excitable bunch, so best to kow-tow, what’s the diff. Keep ‘em happy and avoid unnecessary trouble. Nobody likes to lost a hand or a leg in a bombing, and sitting on a commercial jet speeding to an explosive impact is even worse.
What difference does kow-towing really make, that’s the question. Not who’s offended or whatever, but what is lost by speaking the truth or acting with open rationality. A lot’s happened in the Moslem Activism Dept. since Munich, but add ‘em all up and they amount to a tiny fraction of what is really lost, overall, when accounting for the cumulative effect the omnipresent threat has on us.
“I condemn the action of the individual in the United States who burned a copy of the Holy Qur’an. That action was hateful. It was intolerant, and it was extremely disrespectful. I condemn the actions of a small number of individuals who have been extremely disrespectful to the Holy Qur’an. Together with our Afghan partners [when they are not too busy shooting our troops in the back and raping little girls and little boys], we must secure and serve [by paying lots of bribes] the people of Afghanistan [the hell with the American people and their crappy outdated Constitution].”
- from David “In: Holy Qur’an, Out: First Amendment and his oath to the United States Constitution” Petraeus
I condemn the actions of a small number of individuals who have been extremely disrespectful to the Holy Qur’an.
- U.S. General David Petraeus
You’re rat on, Feral.
If a person can’t disrespect the Holy Ko-Ran, what can he disrespect? The act of disrespect is a normal, healthy human act that plays a key role in societal maintenance. Any civilized person who’s the read the thing knows that the document positively screams out for disrespect and denunciation.
The Holy Ko-Ran is a murder manual, a roadmap for world takeover that will leave all civilized people living under one form of subjugation or another. It sez so rat there in its pages.
Petraeus, with thousands of civilized corpses laying in his wake, should shut his pompous pie hole. Thank you for the timely reminder.
Hey Pig Farmer
I really hate to say it, but the whole “Betray-us” thing turned out to be pretty accurate, wouldnt you say?
Not that he betrayed the ones who paid for the ad..no no no…he betrayed US, the ones who OBJECTED to the ad attacking his character.
Dont politics suck.
The question is: do the Olympic Committee folks want the Olympics to mean something? Or is it nothing more than kindergarten games for grownups, with awards and prizes that ultimately don’t stand for anything?
Sooner or later, someone has to take a stand.
Why don’t they slam Petraeus for his indefensibly anti-Israel stance and his blood libels against Israel?
How about a congressional resolution condemning someone far worse than the IOC?
From Andrew McCarthy on Petraeus -
The upshot of this could not be clearer: Petraeus is echoing the narrative peddled incessantly by leftists in the government he serves and by Islamists in the countries where he works. According to that narrative, Israel’s plight is not a struggle for survival against immovable foes spurred by an Islamist ideology that must be discredited and defeated. To the contrary, this view holds, it is the result of a mere political conflict. It could be resolved, so the theory goes, if only Israel weren’t so intransigent — i.e., if it would just stop taking so seriously its need to secure its citizens against enemies pledged to its destruction. Israel’s stubbornness (which is to say, its insistence on existing as a Jewish state in what Muslims regard as Islamic land) creates tensions that “flare into violence” (Palestinian terrorist attacks undertaken with the approval and encouragement of the region’s most influential Islamic authorities).
As night follows day, Islamist sympathizers leapt on a statement from CENTCOM’s commander that Israel causes America’s problems. Stephen Walt, the Kennedy School’s reliable Israel-basher (and, many years ago, Petraeus’s faculty adviser at Princeton), quoted the general’s testimony to bolster Walt’s argument that Israel’s policies threaten American security and interests. Rami Khouri, a renowned Palestinian-American progressive who blames Ariel Sharon for the existence of Hamas and Hezbollah, could barely contain his delight that Petraeus had “openly criticized Israel.” “The top military leadership speaking out in public with such clarity,” he proclaimed in Middle East Online, “is about as serious as it gets in terms of credible criticisms in Washington.” His views were amplified elsewhere: “By now General David Petraeus’s warning that U.S. policy with Israel is negatively affecting the Middle East has spread far and wide,” wrote James Gundun in the Palestinian Chronicle. “Petraeus believed that Israel hadn’t gotten the message yet and so lit a fire under the White House, hoping it too would learn a lesson.”
What’s next, making all rest of the runners run at half speed so some Arab can possibly score a medal?
if only I could do more to protest than I was already doing by not watching the stupid, boring, olympics!
IF THE ARAB STATES ARE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF A TRIBUTE TO MURDERED ISRAELI ATHLETES ….WELL THEN , MAYBE THE ARAB STATES SHOULD SIMPLY NOT PARTICIPATE …IF THEIR IS NO TRIBUTE , I WON’T PARTICIPATE , BY SIMPLY NOT WATCHING THE OLYMPICS , EVEN THOUGH I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE GAMES …WHY IS THE I.O.C. KISSING THE BUTTS OF THE ARAB STATES TO BEGIN WITH , HUH ???!!!!!!!
You know how corrupt an organization is by the way it treats the Jews. The UN, the late USSR, the Arab world, the OIC, etc. are notable for two things: (1) massive corruption, (2) visceral hatred of Jews.
IF ISRAEL ATTACKS AND HOPEFULLY DESTROYS IRANS NUCLEAR SITES BEFORE THE OLYMPICS BEGIN , I WONDER IF ANY OF THE ARAB STATES WILL STILL PARTICIPATE IN THE OLYMPICS ….JUST WONDERING ?
Rupert Murdoch publicly stated a couple of years ago, As Israel goes, so goes civilization. It’s a complicated thought, but a right one. It is a prediction based somewhere in the vast and wildly successful human experiment called Judeo-Christianity, which is easy to criticize and is so constantly, because of its very virtues, of which there are many.
You have to understand from the point of view of the Olympic Committee they are doing Israel a favor by letting them participate at all. A lot of the atheletes served in the IDF so we ought to be thankful that the Brits dont arrest them at the airport. In fact Israel should be grateful whenever they are allowed to compete in an athletic event, perform a concert, publish a book, study at a university, or sell a box of strawberries anywhere, all thanks to the great tolerance of the euro elites who want to boycott these things.
Now if you proposed a minute of silence for the Black September terrorists that would be another story. Many of those who look up to them will be there, hence the added security.
I would tell the Arabs, “Sorry you feel that way. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.”
Add:
“and your Prophet was a contemptable scumbag of the first order…no wonder you people are so fkd-up”
Unless and until we get to THAT conversation worldwide, nothing will change.
It is fitting that IOC President Rogge should have dated his letter to Dep. Foreign Minister Ayalon May 15. This May 15 was the 64th anniversary of the Arab states’ aggression against Israel.
Arabs! Don’t leave! Think of all the Gold Medals you’ll be sacrificing.
Hee hee, hee, hee
While I am glad to see such efforts being made to treat Jews, particularly the Jews of Israel, as any other People, as any other Nation, that effort needs to be kept up; however, Jews are treated in a particularly sick way in this world; irrationally, hatefully, disgustingly, and nauseatingly.
That said, JewHatred will not be going away anytime soon. The very best we can do for ourselves is to honor fellow Jews and care about them and do our own ceremonials for the fallen. We have survived the hatred of the churches, the tyrants, the ovens of hatred, and worse.
We have not only survived, prospered, but have moved to strengths of greatest magnitude since Moses gave our ancestors the Commandments at Mount Sinai. We now take care of our own. We stand our ground. We repel invaders. We protect and defend ourselves. That this offends many is not some kind of thing about which to be frustrated and saddened. It is to be celebrated.
Too bad for the Islamics, their fellow travellers, their running dogs, their sychophants, their leftist cheerleaders. We Jews have found control of our own destiny. That is what has the JewHaters of this world eating the rotting entrails and stinking guts out. Too bad for them.
We honor our fallen. We honor our living. We care not for some bare bones of single minutes of silence that might be given somewhere. Those periodic 60 seconds are given in grandest hypocrisy. We really don’t want it. We can do all that ourselves and know that it is heartfelt and meaningful—to and for US.
Of course there will be no moment of silence. Killing Jews is an official olympic sport. It is the only place where Palestinians and Iranians can win a gold medal