Comments on: The 50th anniversary of the Munich Olympics massacre is today

By: BrooklynBoy

BrooklynBoy — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:47:05 +0000

I remember that awful day vividly. No doubt that the gutless Willy Brandt government arranged for that Lufthansa plane would be hijacked.

By: Mike-SMO

Mike-SMO — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 08:02:13 +0000

Trump warned Europe and Germany about Russia and they smirked. Germany acts as if they are immune from the crazies. They should know better.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 22:43:40 +0000

“the group leader called himself ‘issa’ which is arabic for jesus”

“Issa” is what Muslim Arabic speakers call Jesus. Arabic-speaking Christians call him “Yeshua,” from the Aramaic/Syriac.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 22:14:00 +0000

and we know fidel, cribbed a fair bit of that speech for his ‘history will absolve me’ oration, what I didn’t know is nelson mandela used a similar tack with his defense in the Rivonia trial, as would hugo chavez

as book ends to both olympics games, you have the loathsome figure of avery brundage, who enabled the first games in 36, and wouldn’t curtail them in ’72,
was he necessarily an antisemite, unclear, but he was a uber cold blooded pragmatist,

By: PA+Cat

PA+Cat — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 22:01:05 +0000

In regard to “rocket[ing] a cause from obscurity to renown,” it had happened before in Munich– in 1923, when the failure of the so-called Beer Hall Putsch brought Hitler to the attention of the German nation as a whole for the first time. The putsch made front-page headlines in newspapers around the world. Hitler’s arrest was followed by a 24-day trial, which gave him ample publicity and a platform for speaking directly to the German people.

Fast-forward 15 years to the next major stain on Munich’s reputation– the Munich Agreement of September 30, 1938, when the leaders of the UK (Chamberlain), France (Daladier), and Italy (Mussolini) agreed to hand over part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. Less than a year later, both the UK and France declared war on Hitler over the invasion of Poland.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 21:59:07 +0000

as tony kushner wrote the script, i think the blame falls more on him

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110631/http://spectator.org/articles/47620/indiana-spielberg-and-his-jewish-problem

the group leader called himself ‘issa’ which is arabic for jesus,

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 21:23:09 +0000

I remember the event. I was a young adult. What struck me, besides the horrifying details of what happened, is how public opinion had shifted from the days when the novel and movie “Exodus” made heroes of Jews escaping the Nazi horror machine and establishing, for the first time in over two millennia, a Jewish nation. It’s sickening that Jew-hating has overwhelmed those sentiments.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 20:57:12 +0000

I was 8 years old when this occurred and it is my first real memory of terrorism in the world. The horror of those events during the Olympics, watching it live on television, gave me nightmares at night, i.e. The hooded Palestinian lurking on the balcony with a Machine Gun, while the Israelis athletes were held hostage inside. And then the horrible events at the airport when all the athletes were killed. The incompetence of the German military police was deplorable. This event and the Patty Hearst kidnapping marked my childhood. Yes, there was a loss of innocence then.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 20:03:15 +0000

The operational chief the black prince was a cia asset

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:07:30 +0000

The guy who said israel had commited 50 holocausts

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/4261

A soviet tool back then