Tag Archives: Jacque Rogge

REAL PEOPLE ACT WHILE BUREAUCRATS SNOOZE

Posted on August 5, 2012 by

Jacques Rogge and the International Olympic Committee have received another well-deserved poke in the eye.  A French Olympic swimming star, Fabien Gilot, had shown up with a Hebrew tattoo on the inside of his arm reading: אני כלום בלעדיהם – in … Continue reading →

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VIVA ITALIA! AGAIN AND AGAIN!

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

Sometimes bureaucrats get so comfortable and politicized as to have lost all sense of human decency.  Enter, as example, Jacques Rogge of the International Olympic Committee and his refusal to authorize a moment of silence to commemorate the 40th anniversary … Continue reading →

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OBAMA AND THE MOMENT OF SILENCE

Posted on July 18, 2012 by

Well, Obama did express his “absolute support” for a moment of silence to honor Israeli athletes murdered during the 1972 Munich games, and good on him! Will he direct the U.S. government to hold one if/when the International Olympic Committee … Continue reading →

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VIVA ITALIA!

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

The Times of Israel reports that 140 members of Italy’s Parliament have called for a moment of silence at the London Olympic Games to honor, finally, the eleven Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympic games in … Continue reading →

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JEWS AND OLYMPIANS

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

In September 1972, eleven Israeli athletes were taken hostage and then murdered by Palestinian Black September “freedom fighters” during the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.  Ultimately, their only crime was their Jewishness, though the terrorists depicted their action as an attempt … Continue reading →

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