Thursday, November 2, 2023

The Palestinian massacre of the 1972 Israeli Olympic team

Has Rashida Tlaib heard of this? What would she have to say about it? TD

 Munich Massacre (history.com)

. . ."Upon breaching the Israeli dorm, wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano were killed almost immediately. Horrifyingly, Romano, according to the Associated Press, was castrated and Weinberg’s body was thrown to the street. Some escaped, but nine Israelis were quickly taken hostage, including weightlifters David Berger, who was born in America, and Ze’ev Friedman, wrestlers Eliezer Halfin and Mark Slavin, track and field coach Amitzur Shapira, sharpshooting coach Kehat Shorr, fencer Andre Spitzer, weightlifting judge Yakov Springer and wrestling referee Yossef Gutfreund.

"A 9 a.m. deadline was set for the terrorists’ political prisoner release demands—not meeting it, they said, would result in one hostage being executed every hour." . . .

Below: "But the helicopters which awaited them became the scene of almighty gun-battle as police snipers tried to ambush the group. Within two hours, all of the athletes were dead - slaughtered inside the helicopters by the Palestinians. One German police officer also lost his life and only three of the hostage-takers survived."

A member of Black September used a grenade to destroy one of the two helicopters that had Israeli hostages inside. The burned-out army helicopter is pictured here at Fürstenfeldbruck air base on Sept. 7, 1972.

Olympic athlete who escaped 1972 Munich massacre discusses parallels with current fighting in Israel (news12.com)

Munich Massacre at the Olympics • History Infographics



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