Why is just Israel calling for that? Why not every decent or allegedly decent country, such as the USA and Canada?
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Heck if someone served a strip of bacon there would be an outrage from certain teams. The whole Israeli team was murdered, and I don’t recall much of an outrage to have lasted very long.
I cannot abide Bob Costas. He makes watching the Olympics an excruciating experience.
But I gotta give him props here.
He’s right. The IOC is wrong - despicably, horribly wrong.
Not the first time this has happened....the IOC is basically anti-Semitic.
There are so few Muslim countries that fully participate...their boycotting the games over these things has zero impact
In the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norwegian speed skater Johan Olav Koss (who was like the Norwegian team captain) wanted to do a short memorial service at the Opening Ceremonies for the Israeli athletes murdered in 1972 Olympics....the IOC shot that down, too.
Although Lillehammer was the scene of a 1973 Mossad hit on some of the PLO terrorists who murdered the Israelis...there are so few Muslim at the Winter Games, holding a Memorial would not have caused any outcry
I did a college paper on this subject some years ago...so I am quite familiar with the IOC being anti-Semitic in regards to the murdered Israeli athletes. And, troubling that so few countries are willing to speak up about it
I am not a Costas fan but on this issue I am with him.
Anti-Jewish hate is alive and well all over Europe.
If the controversy was about the murder of 11 limp-wristed Euro-Queers, or 11 radical muslim terrorists with bloody hands, the Olympics would have a complete program to honor them.