Posted on 07/29/2012 1:11:47 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The Italian Olympic team at the London Olympic Games made a noble gesture Sunday and stood in silence outside the quarters of the Israeli team, in memory of the 11 athletes slain in the Munich Olympics 40 years ago, Voice of Israel radio reported Sunday.
About 30 Italians were present at the ceremony, including Italy's Minister of Sport, the heads of the Italian Olympic Committee and athletes. Israeli Olympic Committee head Tzvi Varshaviak and Olympic delegation leader Efraim Zinger also took part.
According to an unverified report on the internet, the pilot and crew of a British airliner headed for Israel Thursday did what the Olympics Committee refused to do, and observed a moment of silence in memory of the Israel athletes murdered in Munich in 1972.
The "USA Stands with Israel" Facebook page, with over 10,000 subscribers, reported that the heartwarming gesture was made by a pilot for EasyJet, on a flight headed from the firm's home base of Luton, England, to Tel Aviv.
"The pilot came on the intercom and informed the passengers that the crew will be observing a minute of silence as they fly over Munich and he invited the passengers to join them in remembering the Israeli sportsmen who were murdered there at the Olympic Games 40 years ago," according to the report.
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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
"They are all dead."
Actually I saw on a thread that the Brit’s did honor their own dead from the terrorist of 7/11 but NBC did not cover the tribute.
Glad to be spending my vacation money in Italy at this very moment!!!
Bravissima, Italia
Bravo Italy!!!
(Why didn’t the USA join them???)
What a manic-depressive Olympics that was
From Spitz/Wottle/Shorter to
USA Basketball to
The Munich Massacre
Who will ever forget ABC’s Jim McKay, that bloodshot and depressed look, telling us “They’re all gone”
’ Terrorism pays. Bomb something and the world respects you.’
Oh, the irony.
We could have done so in 1984 or 1996, and apparently did not.
I remember watching that Olympics. It was really, really wild, having sporting events and terrorists with hostages at the same time. Then, when the Israelis were ALL KILLED, I specifically remember the sportscaster, Jim McKay, come on and say, “They’re gone. They’re all gone.” For a split second, I didn’t know what he meant.
Bob Costas spoke of the Israelis: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/28/bob-costas-isreali-athlete-controversy
Operation Bayonet/Wrath of God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc4c66-XnPA&feature=related
The decision not to reflect was an IOC decision, not a British decision.
Kindly take your anti-british bile and shove it.
Note: Sicilians do not export their best wines, which are cheap and oh my.... oh so.... o sole mio wonderful.
If your Government had any balls they’d tell the IOC to take their stupid, politically correct road show somewhere else.
If your Government had any balls they’d tell the IOC to take their stupid, politically correct road show somewhere else.
The decision is an IOC one, not a British one.
Find another scapegoat.
Bob Costas represented us...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158373#
The IOC is like the UN, a bunch of Anti-Isreali, Anti-American morons trying to get us interested in table tennis and team handball. When the National Table Tennis League or the National Handball Association gets on ESPN, then Iwill watch it.
My comment was directed at the IOC and the “International Community” in general, not the UK, except to the extent that they at times mirror said “Community,” in looking the other way, knuckling to implicit threats, and otherwise following Burke’s formula for assuring the triumph of wickedness, which in this case the UK did not do much more than anyone else. Find another bone of contention. I am not an Anglophobe. But I am becoming an Italophile.
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