At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta:
“Gilady informed us that a moment of silence was not possible because if the IOC had a moment of silence for the Israeli athletes, they would also have to do the same for the Palestinians who died at the Olympics in 1972.
“My mother said, ‘But no Palestinian athletes died.’
“Gilady responded, ‘Well, there were Palestinians who died at the 1972 Olympics.’
“I heard one of the widows say to Gilady, ‘Are you equating the murder of my husband to the terrorists that killed him?’
“Silence.
“Then Ilana Romano burst out with a cry that has haunted me to this day. She screamed at Gilady, ‘How DARE you! You KNOW what they did to my husband! They let him lay there for hours, dying slowly, and then finished him off by castrating him and shoving it in his mouth, ALEX!’” – Guri Weinberg, ‘Why the IOC will never memorialize the ’72 Munich massacre’
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/27/why-ioc-will-never-memorialize-72-munich-massacre/?intcmp=trending
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