Op-ed:

Another black day in Olympic history

By: Diane Sori

 

I will not be watching the Summer Olympics, period.  I didn’t watch the Opening Ceremonies; I will not watch the competitions or the Closing Ceremonies.

While I support our American athletes 100%, I cannot watch games that do not have the decency to honor the eleven Israeli athletes and coaches who were brutally slaughtered at the Munich games forty years ago.

The IOC (International Olympic Committee) has shown the worst kind of anti-Semitism possible as they're kowtowing down to muslim Arabs, the people who hate everything the West stands for, and especially to the Palestinians, the very ones who committed this atrocity.  The IOC can claim all they want that they didn’t want to make a political statement by honoring the Israelis, but in NOT doing so they are doing the very thing they didn’t want to do.

A minute of silence...that was all that was asked for.  No fancy tributes, no speeches, just a simple minute of silence to honor the blackest day in Olympic history and the IOC would NOT do it, saying they didn’t want to offend anyone (meaning muslims) by doing so.  So instead they deliberately and knowingly chose to offend Israel, the Jewish people, and civilized moral people worldwide. 

And worse, they chose to offend the widows and families who have been waiting for 40 years for some sort of recognition that their loved ones were murdered at games that are supposed to promote peace, cooperation, tolerance, and understanding amongst the peoples of the world.

A minute of silence out of a three-hour opening ceremony...equals just a tiny bit more than five seconds to honor each victim. Is that too much to ask...I think not. 

Thankfully, NBC broadcaster Bob Costas had the decency and courage to do what no others would do as he caught the TV audience by surprise when he said, "Still, for many, tonight with the world watching is the true time and place to remember those who were lost and how and why they died."

After a five-second pause, NBC cut to a commercial.  At least they let his words sink in for five seconds.

I applaud you, Mr. Bob Costas.

And remember the slaughter we will no matter how hard the IOC, who have shown themselves to be nothing but muslim sympathizers, try to stop that from happening.  Eleven Israeli husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, and uncles were murdered at the hands of Palestinian barbarians who are no different today than they were forty years ago.   

Bastards still and bastards they will always be.

And what makes this even worse and more heartbreaking is that the IOC had no problem observing that very same minute of silence for a Georgian luger killed in an accident a few hours before the Opening Ceremony at the 2010 Vancouver Games.  Him they honored but eleven Jews they would not.

Anti-Semitism...flat out in your face anti-Semitism of the worst kind done by hypocrites who have no heart, no soul, and no morals.  Instead of honoring those who came to the games in the spirit of friendly competition and who were murdered on Olympic soil, the IOC cared more about the threat of a boycott by Arab nations.

I am so sick and tired of all the catering and bowing down in submission to the Arabs, the muslims, the Palestinians, and all their vile brethren.  And I am beyond furious that the IOC stands by the very people out to kill us all instead of commemorating eleven brave souls whose lives were cut short by the very ones they are catering to.

Sadly, because of that, I will have to support our American athletes just in spirit for I will NOT watch the Winter Games either, or any future games for that matter, until this terrible wrong is righted.

And I doubt that I’m the only one who feels this way.