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Munich 1972: “With hand grenades and bullets the terrorists butchered the remaining nine athletes in the helicopters that brought them there, as well as a German policeman”

GATESTONE ‘There We Will Strike Them’: The Munich Massacre and Its Aftermath by Richard Kemp September 4, 2022 Fifty years ago this week, 5th and 6th September 1972, the world watched in horror as Jews were again brutally murdered on … Continue reading

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Munich Olympic Memorial: “Before, during, and after the attack, Germany displayed a systemic pattern of neglect, still unacknowledged by its government”

TABLET MAG Munich’s New Memorial to the Slain Israeli Athletes is Meaningless and Offensive by Liel Leibovitz September 6, 2017 Israeli president Reuven Rivlin and German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier unveiled a memorial in Munich today commemorating the 11 Israeli athletes … Continue reading

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“Israeli president, families of 11 Israeli athletes murdered by Arab terrorists in 1972, meet following dedication of Munich memorial to victims” [VIDEO]

ARUTZ SHEVA President Rivlin meets families of Munich Massacre victims by Staff September 6, 2017 After the main memorial ceremony held in for the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and after the inauguration of the memorial … Continue reading

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Germany’s Jews still face challenges: Jewish restaurant in Munich shut down by #BDS

JERUSALEM POST Munich’s Schmock restaurant closes due to Israel-hate by Benjamin Weinthal October 9, 2016 The Jewish owner of Munich’s Schmock Israeli restaurant announced on its website its closure after 16 years because of rising anti-Semitism in the Bavarian capital. Florian … Continue reading

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“What possessed President Obama to publicly state that Israel now “acknowledges” that the Iran nuclear deal has been a “game changer when nothing could be further from the truth? He’s delusional”

PJ MEDIA Obama Lied About Israel Calling Iran Deal a ‘Game Changer by Rick Moran August 6, 2016 …The comparison to the Munich accord is apt. Perhaps no leader since Neville Chamberlain has utterly failed to grasp the evil he … Continue reading

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How and why Hollywood distorts history (Bridge of Spies, The Imitation Game, Munich and others)

COMMENTARY Bridge of Lies by Kyle Smith December 14, 2015 Midway through Steven Spielberg’s Cold War picture Bridge of Spies, the upstanding lawyer Jim Donovan (Tom Hanks) suffers a shocking attack when his Brooklyn house is raked with gunfire. Donovan … Continue reading

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Munich hosts BDS event on November 9, a perverse commemoration of Kristallnacht.

JEWISH JOURNAL Munich marks this Kristallnacht by making room for boycotters of the Jewish State by Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman November 6, 2015 The worldwide Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement is the twenty-first century’s highest profile anti-Israel … Continue reading

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1938 and 2015: Only the Names Are Different

DENNISPRAGER.COM July 21, 2015 We say that evil is dark. But this metaphor is imprecise. Evil is actually intensely bright, so painfully bright that people look away from it. Many even deny its existence. Why? Because once people acknowledge evil’s existence, … Continue reading

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Much Worse Than Munich

COMMENTARY by Rick Richman July 15, 2015 If one peruses the pages of The New York Times from mid-September 1938 through the first week of October 1938, it is apparent that what we are witnessing today is a virtual replay … Continue reading

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Munich….in the context of Paris last week

STEYN ONLINE by Mark Steyn January 10, 2015 At the end of a week of bloodbaths and hostage sieges, I went looking for something appropriate for our Saturday movie date, and settled on a nine-year-old Spielberg movie about the massacre … Continue reading

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