UPDATE 9 am Israel time Saturday:
Intense activity throughout Judea and Samaria overnight: a Palestinian terrorist who infiltrated an IDF base in the Jordan Valley in order to steal weapons and ammunition was captured; at around 2 am, IDF soldiers came under attack in Shechem (Nablus)–one soldier was badly wounded in the head by “a large object” thrown by a Palestinian terrorist.
In southern Israel, two more rockets were fired by Hamas Palestinian terrorists at Israeli citizens living in the Eshkol region causing untold emotional trauma to those who had to run to their bomb shelters for safety. There has been no IDF response.
TODAY’S BLOG:
The Israeli delegation enters the Olympic stadium last night in London.
What a spectacular show last night from London! Just when you thought that nothing would ever top what the Chinese put on in Beijing, the British astonishingly encapsulated their storied history in 2 hours of amazing stage theatrics (what did you think about the belching smokestacks of the industrial revolution), music, video clips (how did you like the one with Daniel Craig as James Bond parachuting into the stadium with Queen Elizabeth?), and sheer storytelling.
And as an American and an Israeli, your humble servant was particularly proud as the American and Israeli athletes marched into the stadium. Israel windsurfer Shahar Zubari’s exuberance as he carried the Israeli flag into the stadium was especially heartwarming–sporting as he did another Israel flag painted on to his partly shaved head.
Israeli windsurfer Shahar Zubari--as exuberant as always!
If only the International Olympic Committee had decided to reject Arab pressure and remember the Israeli victims of Munich with a minute of silence, it would have been a perfect evening.
However, your humble servant does not want to dwell on that decision in this blog today. Instead, I would like to briefly discuss the nauseating irony that took place in the aftermath of the IOC refusal.
It turned out yesterday that the PLO/Palestinian Authority has brazenly thanked the IOC for refusing to hold the minute of silence. The official PLO news agency, WAFA, noted that Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestinian Football Federation and “former PLO security commander”, sent a letter on behalf of the PLO to IOC chairman Jacques Rogge thanking him for his decision.
Rajoub’s sickening letter reads in part: “Sports is a bridge for love, connection and relaying peace between peoples. It should not be a factor for separation and spreading racism between peoples.” Another PLO official chimed in that the PLO was opposed to “Israel’s attempts to exploit the Olympic Games for propaganda purposes.”
Could this be any more disgustingly Orwellian?
Here we have the very organization that perpetrated the vicious murders in Munich thanking the IOC for forgetting the murders. Here we have the very organization that tore asunder the Munich Olympic games with a horrific act of violence expounding about how “sports is a bridge for love”.
And here we have the very PLO organization, whose President today, Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), helped orchestrate the Munich murders condemning “Israel’s attempt to exploit the Olympic Games for propaganda purposes.”
Unbelievable.
Lest we forget the abominable Munich atrocities of the PLO–acts for which it has never shown even a shred of remorse–let me conclude this blog today with a few quotations from Mohammed Daoud Oudeh, the Palestinian terrorist who masterminded the attack.
Some years before Oudeh died (in 2010), he recalled how Yasser Arafat and Abu Mazen “both wished him luck and kissed him when he set about organizing the Munich attack”–and how Abu Mazen was “responsible for financing of the Munich attack.”
As for the savagery itself, Daoud told Sports Illustrated magazine:
“At the time, it was the correct thing to do for our cause . . . The operation brought the Palestinian issue into the homes of 500 million people . . . There was nothing we weren’t prepared to do to keep the Palestinian cause in the public eye. Before Munich, we were simply terrorists. After Munich, at least people started asking who are these terrorists?”
Of course nothing has changed in 40 years, the PLO/PA are still “simply terrorists”: the Palestinian terrorists at the Munich games are the same Palestinian terrorists who tried to grab weapons and ammunition last night to kill Israels, who brutally assaulted an IDF soldier in Shechem last night, and who fired rockets into southern Israel last night trying to murder Israeli men, women and children.
And the world is still the world: the same world that welcomed Yassir Arafat in the United Nations as a hero 2 years after the Munich massacre, is the same world that extols Mahmoud Abbas as a man of peace, is the same world that refuses a moment of silence for the murdered Israeli athletes, and is the same world that says nothing when rockets rain down on Israeli citizens.
All of which is absolutely pathetic.
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