Palestinierna tackar IOK för att de vägrar hålla en tyst minut till minnet av de mördade israeliska idrottsmännen för 40 år sedan i Munchen.
Jibril Rajoub, ordlörande för palestinska fotbollsförbundet, har sänt ett brev till IOK:s ordförande Jacues Rogge där han framför sitt tack till Rogge för hans negativa inställning till Israels ( och många andras) krav på en tyst minut.
Vad som är betydligt värre är att de palestinska ledarna inte överhuvudtaget betraktar terrorattacken i Munchen 1972 där 11 israeliska idrottsmän dödades som en terrorattack.
Tvärtom beskriver de mannen som planerade attacken som en hjälte och terrorattacken som en lysande operation.
Det är dessa ledare som västvärlden håller vid makten genom ett stort ekonomiskt understöd.
Palestinian Media Watch skriver:
PA against moment of silence at Olympics:"Sports are meant for peace, not for racism"
The following are examples of how PA leaders and the PA's official
newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida have glorified the Olympic
massacre and the terrorists who planned it:
Honoring Amin Al-Hindi, planner of the Olympic
attack:
"One of the
stars who sparkled... one of many shining stations."
Official PA daily on Al-Hindi:
"Everyone knows that Amin Al-Hindi was one of
the stars who sparkled at one of the stormiest points on the international
level - the operation that was carried out at the [Olympics] sports stadium
in Munich, Germany, in 1972. That was just one of many shining
stations."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,
Aug. 20,2010]
Secretary General of the Abbas' office, Al-Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim on
Al-Hindi:
"Secretary General of the President's office,
Al-Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim, delivered a speech in which he praised the qualities of
the deceased. He stressed that the loss of Al-Hindi is a great loss to the
Palestinian people, who are bereaved of a prominent national leader...
The
Secretary General of the Presidential office said: 'We shall continue in the
path of the Shahid (Martyr) Yasser Arafat and his fellow
Shahids, such as Amin Al-Hindi...'"
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,
Aug. 19, 2010]
Abbas and Fayyad honor Al-Hindi:
"The Palestinian leadership, along with President
Mahmoud Abbas, parted yesterday from the body of the Fatah leader and fighter
patriot Amin Al-Hindi. This was at an imposing official military funeral that
was held at the [PA] headquarters...
Present at the headquarters for the
farewell ceremony and for the official military funeral, along with the
President [Abbas], were Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad; Secretary General of
the Presidential office, Al-Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim; members of the PLO Executive
Council and of the Fatah Central Committee; several ministers, commanders of
security forces, senior civic and military personnel, as well as relatives of
the deceased... President Abbas and the participants at the funeral cast a final
parting look at the body, and laid wreaths. Afterwards, the President and those
present read the opening sura [of the Quran] for the elevation of his pure
soul."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,
Aug. 19, 2010]
Honoring Muhammad Daoud
Oudeh, 'Abu Daoud,' a second planner of the Olympic attack:
"His name shone
brightly in the German city of Munich"
PA TV News,
on Oudeh:
"Palestinians were surprised this morning at the
announcement of the death of one of the most important leaders of the
Palestinian revolution, Muhammad Daoud Oudeh (Abu Daoud), who engineered the
Munich Operation and was one of the most important of Israel's most wanted in
the 1970s."
[PA TV (Fatah), July 4,
2010]
Official PA daily, on Oudeh:
"In its [Black September wing of PLO] ranks were
many distinguished men and women, headed by the Panther of Palestine, Salah
Khalaf 'Abu Iyad.' Abu Daoud was one of his prominent assistants. His [Abu
Daoud's] name shone brightly in the German city of Munich in 1972, where the
Olympics took place. Oh, how these events evolved into a violent drama of
the most tragic kind... May Allah have mercy on this great Fatah fighter and
patriot, Abu Daoud."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,
July 6, 2010