Israel Thrives: 40 Years Ago

Thursday, July 5, 2012

40 Years Ago

JayinPhiladelphia

Still not sure why the 11 Israeli athletes (and the one West German police officer), who were murdered by Palestinian Arab terrorists 40 years ago in Munich, simply for who they were, aren't considered worthy of even one minute of remembrance at this year's games (or any other), but we can still remember them here.

So let's do it.

David Berger
Yosef Gutfreund
Moshe Weinberg
Eliezer Halfin
Marc Slavin
Zeev Friedman
Yosef Romano
Kehat Schorr
Andre Spitzer
Amitzur Shapira
Yaacov Springer

And West German Police Officer Anton Fliegerbauer.

Z"l

I'll try to write something on each of these men, if I can (even if only a few words), in the coming days.

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Mike L.July 5, 2012 at 10:12 AM
It remains heart-breaking.
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Shirl in OzJuly 5, 2012 at 3:15 PM
Mike to them it's called **SPORT**
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Mike L.July 5, 2012 at 5:29 PM
Y'know, I'm not really sure what to think about this.

I'm on an email list comprised of former contributors to Front Page Mag's "newsreal" blog and Jeff Dunetz of Yid With Lid has a piece up in which he quotes Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times who wrote in 1972:

Incredibly, they're going on with it. It's almost like having a dance at Dachau.

They went on with it then and now, 40 years later, the committee will not even allow a moment of silence in commemoration.

I honestly do not know what I want to say about this.

I do not even really know that the Olympic Committee is wrong, to be perfectly honest.

But I do know that we should have our moment of silence, so to speak. If they will not commemorate then it is surely our obligation to do so.

If the rest of the world wants to forget what happened, we will not.
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Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

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40 Years Ago

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