Fatah applauds decision to forgo moment of silence for Munich victims

[Dan193]

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-official-thanks-olympic-president-for-rejecting-moment-of-silence/
PA official applauds decision to forgo ‘racist’ moment of silence for Munich victims
‘Sports are a bridge for love,’ says Palestinian Olympic chief Rajoub, a month after seeking to bar Israel from hosting a European soccer tournament
Elhanan Miller
July 26, 2012

A Palestinian official on Thursday weighed in on the debate surrounding demands for a moment of silence during the opening ceremony of the Olympic games. He claimed that expressing solidarity with the 11 victims of a terror attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics would constitute “racism,” the Palestinian media watchdog Palestinian Media Watch reported.
 
Jibril Rajoub, the former head of the Preventive Security Force and current president of the Palestinian Olympic Committee, sent a letter Tuesday to IOC President Jacques Rogge thanking him for his refusal to allow a moment of silence in memory of the slain Israeli athletes during the opening ceremony of the Olympics July 27.
 
“Sports are a bridge for love, communication and the spreading of peace between nations and should not be used for divisiveness and the spread of racism,” Rajoub wrote Rogge, according to PMW.
 

Jibril Rajoub (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
 
Rajoub demanded last month — as president of the Palestinian Football Association — to bar Israel from hosting the European under-21 Championship in 2013 for jailing a Palestinian footballer, Mahmoud Sarsak, who has since been released.
 
In an interview with AFP Monday, Rajoub said that the Palestinian Olympic team was prepared to “confront the Israeli provocations” at the Olympics, referring to the Israeli demand for a moment of silence on July 27. Rajoub added that “sport in Palestine is a means to achieve national goals” as well as “a tool of struggle to present the Palestinian cause.”
 
The Black September group, which carried out the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic village, belonged to the Fatah movement of whose Central Committee Rajoub is a member.
 
Palestinian Authority officials honored one of the planners of the attack, Amin Al-Hindi, in an official military funeral in August 2010, which was attended by PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, PMW noted.
 
No comment was available from Israel’s Olympic committee at the time of publication.

[Dan193]

Tons of great posts about this on the Jerusalem Post.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=279048

[syyuge]

Muslamics shall be sent in to the eternal silence, where velocity of sound is zero.

[Dan193]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158307
Ayalon Slams PA as 'Racist' for Olympics Stance

Is a moment of silence for 11 Israeli Olympians slain in Munich in 1972 'racism'? Deputy FM Danny Ayalon says no, but opposing it is!
Gabe Kahn
7/26/2012

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon slammed the Palestinian Authority for terming a moment of silence during the Olympics for Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 games in Munich as "racist."
 
"No, the murder of Israelis because they are Israelis is racist, not the request to dignify and honor them," Ayalon wrote on Facebook. "On the other hand, Palestinian Authority media refers to Munich terrorists as 'stars' whose path should be followed."
 
"It is perhaps further indicative that a Palestinian Authority official refers to the cold-blooded murder of innocent Olympic athletes the 'Munich Operation,'" he continued.
 
"Now, more than ever, there needs to be a minute silence, not just to honor the eleven slain Israeli athletes but also to demonstrate opposition to those who laud murderers as heroes and call on others to follow suit."
 
Ayalon was responding to a letter from Palestinian Olympic Committee chairman Jibril Rajoub to Olympics officials quoted in the Arabic-language al-Hayat al-Jadida on Wednesday, that was exposed by Palestinian Media Watch.
 
"Sports are meant for peace, not for racism... Sports are a bridge to love, interconnection, and spreading of peace among nations; it must not be a cause of division and spreading of racism between them [nations]," Rajoub reportedly wrote of the proposed moment of silence.
 
According to Palestinian Media Watch, Rajoub did not refer to the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by at the Munich Olympics in 1972 as terror, which was in line with Ramallah's daily refusal to disavow the infamous terror massacre.
 
Instead, Rajoub described it as "the Munich Operation, which took place during the Munich Olympics in 1972," in his letter complimenting the decision by Olympics chairman Jaques Rogge not to honor Israel's request.
 
"He said that his position is not to politicize sports, and his determination to implement the International Olympic Charter represents a victory for freedom in sports," Rajoub wrote.
 
PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, then a close advisor to late PLO arch-terrorist Yassir Arafat, raised funds for the notorious Black September splinter group to underwrite the Mumich Massacre.
 
"What a wonderful brother, companion, tough and stubborn, relentless fighter," Abbas said of Amin al-Hindi, who planned the 1972 Olympics attack, when he died in 2010.
 
The official PA daily also lionized the planner of the Munich Massacre.
 
"Everyone knows that Amin Al-Hindi was one of the stars who sparkled at one of the stormiest points on the international level," it wrote of al-Hindi. "The operation that was carried out at the [Olympics] sports stadium in Munich, Germany, in 1972. That was just one of many shining stations."

[Dan193]

http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=2531
Abbas honors mastermind of Munich Olympics massacre
Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
July 6, 2010
PA Chairman Abbas continues honoring terrorists

[Dr. Dan]

May all the Jew murderers be permanently silenced and in their deaths all of us celebrate like it's 1999.

[muman613]

The islamic sand maggots are getting emboldened. I fear that the time to nuke them is quickly arriving.

Would it not be stupid to look back and say "We had the bomb" but we did not use it... It is not working as a deterrent, thus these vermin must be eradicated for eternity. They deny what they did to us, they yearn to abuse and use Jews for their own hateful reasons. There is no logical reason that these scum are allowed to live.

The time is coming when the plug must be pulled on these inhuman beings.

[Dr. Dan]

The islamic sand maggots are getting emboldened. I fear that the time to nuke them is quickly arriving.

Would it not be stupid to look back and say "We had the bomb" but we did not use it... It is not working as a deterrent, thus these vermin must be eradicated for eternity. They deny what they did to us, they yearn to abuse and use Jews for their own hateful reasons. There is no logical reason that these scum are allowed to live.

The time is coming when the plug must be pulled on these inhuman beings.

Amen