Bob Costas to “Call Out” IOC Over Minute of Silence
July 19, 2012 14:11 by Pesach Benson
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1. Suicide bomber kills eight Israeli tourists in Bulgaria. Blame centers on the usual suspects: Iran, Hezbollah, and Syria. Coverage of the blast was similar across the board (Washington Post suffices.) And the Christian Science Monitor asks: Why in Bulgaria? And Reuters notes that Israel isn’t banging any war drums. The bombing took place on the 18th anniversary of the bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish center.
2. Is Hezbollah’s Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah “more Palestinian than the Palestinians,” or simply out of step with the rest of the world? After Bashar’s defense minister and brother-in-law were killed, YNet reports that Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah called them “martyrs” who stood by the Palestinians. But AFP reports that Palestinian refugees are joining the rebels:
“Many of us — especially the youth — are in sympathy with the revolution, and now that the fighting is in Damascus, we cannot stay put,” a Palestinian from Yarmuk refugee camp, on the outskirts of the capital, told AFP.
“Many Palestinian youth have joined the FSA, and they are fighting side by side with the Syrian revolutionaries . . .”
Activists say the most support for the uprising comes from young Palestinians disaffected with traditional party factions.
Bob Costas
3. NBC sportscaster Bob Costas won’t be silent about the missing Olympic moment of silence. He told the Hollywood Reporter:
At the July 27 Opening Ceremony from London, Costas plans to call out the IOC for denying Israel’s request for a moment of silence acknowledging the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Games. On the 40th anniversary of Munich, it’s a decision he finds “baffling.” When the Israeli delegation enters the 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium, Costas will stage his own protest: “I intend to note that the IOC denied the request,” he says, modulating his voice as if he were on the air. “Many people find that denial more than puzzling but insensitive. Here’s a minute of silence right now.”
Israel and the Palestinians
• The BBC Sport’s Olympic web site labels “East Jerusalem” as the capital of Palestine, while refusing to identify any capital city for Israel. An HonestReporting critique gives the Beeb a gold medal for delegitimizing Jewish ties to Jerusalem.
• Jerusalem Post: Khaled Mashaal and Mahmoud Abbas had getting-to-know-you meetings with Mohammed Mursi. The new Egyptian president is stuck with mediating Palestinian unity efforts. It’s a waste of time, but Mursi has to look active.
Dr. Michael Dean
6:04 pm
Jul 19, 2012
Chas v’shalom something happened to Hillary Clinton on Israeli’s watch. Better safe than sorry.
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Dr. Michael Dean
6:06 pm
Jul 19, 2012
Kol HaKavod to Mr. Costas, a man of consicence and integrity.
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Romy Monteyro
8:06 pm
Jul 19, 2012
Shame on the IOC! It’s refusal to declare a moment of silence to remember the Israeli athletes who were
murdered in Munich by terrorist cowards is disgusting to say the least. It is also an act of cowardice!
What is the IOC afraid of? The moment of silence will offend the Muslims and the IOC is worried about that.
What about offending the non-Muslim civilized world? Shame! Shame, on the cowardly IOC!
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Jannette Ben david
9:07 pm
Jul 19, 2012
You took it out of my mouth Romy, they R afraid that the moment of silence will offend the Muslims What a bunch of spineless cowwards, More Power to Mr,Costas and thanks for taking a stand.
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Barry
9:49 pm
Jul 19, 2012
While I totally agree with you, it should come as no surprise that Muslim appeasement could be at the heart of this. Political correctness gone wild is nurturing such insanity and rewarding it as well. Naturally, they aren’t held to respecting anyone else’s sentitivities. It is exactly this “sensitivity” that allows Arab newspapers to routinely print the ugliest of caricatures depicting Jews and Christians, and yet allow Muslims to riot should a caricature of Mohammad surface else ware. This sensitivity allowed the Fort Hood shooter to kill 13 people, lest he be branded for what he was. this has become totally absurd! Soon we’ll all be fasting during Ramadan so as not to offend them!!
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Brett
9:44 pm
Jul 19, 2012
The German athletes at the very least should have an official two minute silence as it was their country where it happened. If Obama wants to win brownie points on election day he would also tell the American athletes to do the same thing.
If the IOC won’t have a two minute silence then individual countries who feel strongly about all this should make their own gestures …. who knows maybe the BBC will have a two minute silence
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Reuven
9:52 pm
Jul 19, 2012
If the Beeb would have a two YEAR silence on the subject of Israel … it’d be a good start!
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BUTSeriously
5:06 am
Jul 20, 2012
Correction. East LONDON is the capital of the Shariah people. There is no such thing as EAST, NORTH, SOUTH OR WEST JERUSALEM. Subtle point: Britain corrupted the Balfour – the worst Post-W.W.II crime of all, calls 3-state as a 2-state today [British math?] and Muslims as Palestinians [British history?]. At least the Nazis were honest about it.
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Romy Monteyro
7:00 am
Jul 20, 2012
Jerusalem will always be the capital of Israel! It will stay that way no matter what—come hell or high water. Jerusalem
will never be called by another name, unlike London which is now more aptly referred to as Londonistan!
Londonistan Olympics, anyone?
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andrew hoellering
3:58 pm
Jul 24, 2012
The order of the day is cowardice. Cowardice in excluding Israel from the first meeting of the Global Counter Terrorism Forum last month for fear of provoking the host, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and his Islamist government. Cowardice in excluding Israel from the first Victims of Terrorism meeting in July. Now cowardice by the Olympic Committee in refusing a two-minute silence in memory of the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli athletes in 1972.
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andrew hoellering
5:12 pm
Jul 24, 2012
PS – I would add that Israel is the country that has been most affected by terrorism and best knows how to deal with it, and we can all expect to pay the price for this cowardly and incomprehensible exclusion at international level.
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