Israel Matzav

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Deputy Foreign Minister Ayalon blasts IOC refusal to honor murdered Israeli Olympians

40 years ago, at the Games of the 20th Olympiad in Munich, an Olympics that was supposed to 'make up' for Hitler's 1936 Olympics, 11 Israeli athletes were murdered. I grew up with this stuff, but I'm sure that many of you did not.

Let's go to the videotape.

Note that he calls them 'Arab terrorists.' There was no such thing as a 'Palestinian' in 1972.

Here's another video. Let's go to the videotape.

But the games went on, and for 40 years, Israel has attempted to convince the World that the athletes should at least be remembered with a moment of silence at the beginning of the Olympic games. That has never happened. And IOC President Jacques Rogge has said once again that it won't happen this year either, 40 years after Munich. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon blasted Rogge on Thursday.

Today (Thursday , May 17, 2012), Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon responded to the letter he received from International Olympic Committee President, Jacques Rogge rejecting his request to hold a minute silence in memory of the members of the Israeli Olympic team murdered at the Munich
Olympics in 1972 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/munich.html
during the upcoming London Olympic Games.

“Unfortunately, this response is unacceptable as it rejects the central principles of global fraternity on which the Olympic ideal is supposed to rest,” Ayalon said. “The terrorist murders of the Israeli athletes were not just an attack on people because of their nationality and religion; it was an attack on the Olympic Games and the international community. Thus it is necessary for the Olympic Games as a whole to commemorate this event in the open rather than only in a side event.”

IOC President Rogge’s reply was in response to Ayalon’s letter, sent a few weeks ago, requesting the minute silence on behalf of representatives of the families, Ankie Spitzer and Ilana Romano, the widows of two of the murdered athletes.

“This rejection told us as Israelis that this tragedy is yours alone and not a tragedy within the family of nations. This is a very disappointing approach and we hope that this decision will be overturned so the international community as one can remember, reflect and learn the appropriate lesson from this dark stain on Olympic history.”

Ayalon passed Rogge's response to the athletes families, including Spitzer and Romano who advocated for the minute silence. Ayalon told them that the Ministry will in the coming weeks launch a campaign that it is hoped will reverse the decision.

Maybe one of the reasons they don't want to hold a moment of silence is that the 'Palestinian' Olympic team is being sponsored by the same man who sponsored the Munich Olympic Massacre, Abu Mazen. They also may not want to remind anyone that the same Abu Mazen eulogized the massacre's mastermind.

Labels: Abu Mazen, Danny Ayalon, financiing terror, Munich Olympic massacre

Monday, July 18, 2011

Hezbullah in deep financial trouble

It couldn't happen to a nicer terror organization. Der Spiegel reports that Hezbullah is going broke.

In recent months, Hezbollah has become involved in disastrous investments, losing almost €1 billion ($1.4 billion). The Iranians, who are now feeling the brunt of the UN sanctions imposed as a result of their nuclear activities, have made it clear that they cannot provide Hezbollah with additional funding at this time. This is embarrassing for Hezbollah, whose image in Lebanon depends in large part on its generous social services. It is now falling behind in the rebuilding of homes it had promised to Hezbollah's Shiite followers after the destructive 2006 bomb attacks. Israel began massive bombing strikes in Lebanon that year after Hezbollah abducted two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid.

Western intelligence agencies believe that they have identified a new Hezbollah income source: the drug trade. Iranian weapons shipments to the Lebanese were reportedly "enriched" with large quantities of heroin and cocaine. The drugs were then allegedly shipped to their final destination, Western Europe, through the Turkish Cypriot port of Famagusta. The Iranian representative of the Revolutionary Guard in Beirut, Hassan Mahdavi, allegedly mentioned, in a telephone conversation, a "drug tsunami" that could flush millions into Hezbollah's coffers.

Nasrallah is unlikely to approve of such activities. He has always fought the "drug scourge," even cooperating on the issue with the hated Hariri government in 2010. He is now trying to perform a balancing act that cannot possibly go well -- between being a statesman and a supporter of terrorists, and between opposing civil war and possibly profiting from one. He wants to be part of the democratic process, and yet he insists that he is above the law.

Of course, Hezbullah has no problem selling drugs to the evil Joooos. What could go wrong?

Labels: drug running, financiing terror, Hezbullah