#munich1972

Today marks the 51st Anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre, in which 11 innocent Israeli athletes and coaches were brutally murdered. We will never forget them. We will also never forget that the leader of a major British political party (with aspirations to become the country's next Prime Minister) flew halfway round the world in 2014 to attend a memorial service at the graveside of their murderers.

On the night of September 4th 1972, fifty years ago today, members of Black September, a Palestinian terror group, scaled the fence of the athletes' compound at the Munich Olympics dressed in tracksuits and took a group of Israeli competitors and coaches hostage in their rooms. Within 48 hours, largely due to the sheer incompetence of German police and security personnel, eleven of them had been murdered. Quite incredibly, a despicable decision was made by then IOC President Avery Brundage to suspend the games for just one day and then continue. We will never forget the 11 innocent Israeli competitors murdered at the Munich Olympics - their memory remains with us, always. Baruch Dayan HaEmet.

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Munich Olympic massacre, when 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists, we remember Moshe Weinberg, we remember Yossef Romano, we remember David Berger, we remember Eliezer Halfin, we remember Mark Slavin, we remember Andre Spitzer, we remember Yossef Gutfreund, we remember Amitzur Shapiro, we remember Kehat Shorr, we remember Zeev Friedman, we remember Yaakov Springer. We remember you all. We will never forget you.

Baruch Dayan HaEmet.

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Munich Olympic massacre, when 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists, we remember Moshe Weinberg, we remember Yossef Romano, we remember David Berger, we remember Eliezer Halfin, we remember Mark Slavin, we remember Andre Spitzer, we remember Yossef Gutfreund, we remember Amitzur Shapiro, we remember Kehat Shorr, we remember Zeev Friedman, we remember Yaakov Springer. We remember you all. We will never forget you.

Baruch Dayan HaEmet.

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Munich Olympic Massacre, here is a gentle reminder of what happened 10 years ago. Before the 2012 London Olympics, on the 40th Anniversary of this vile attack, Israel made a request to the International Olympic Committee for a minute's silence to be held for the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches murdered by Black September, a Palestinian terrorist group, at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The request was denied.