Thanking for not commemorating victims!

Who opposed minute of silence
thanking for refusal to keep the minute of silence
from terrorist to role model - and what's next????

The above links show the situation so widely known by now that I will just quickly remind the facts. It is 40 years exactly after massacre of 11 Israeli athletes during Olympic Games in Munich by Palestinian terrorists from Black September organization.
For all those years there were people - notably widow of one of the murdered, Ankie Spitzer, who tried for commemorating victims by observing one minute's silence during the opening ceremony of Olympic Games.

This year, as it is very "round" anniversary there was especially wide movement to do so. Petitions were signed by well over 100,000 people worldwide, many members of parliaments from different countries supported the idea, even more sport stars wanted commemorating their fellow sportsmen. To no avail. IOC refused it explaining that not doing so will be more in accordance with the spirit of Olympic Games and politics should not be mixed into them.

Tell the true, I never saw this explanation as anything but excuse but with revealing truth about Arab countries lobbying for refusal and with PA authorities thanking for refusal any statement that IOC's refusal was anything but pure politic decision (something that they said they didn't want to enter the world of sport) is ridiculous!

Arab countries bullied IOC to refuse the commemoration of victims, PA authorities thanked them for it, and it is the same authority (look at the third link) that treats the perpetrators of terror acts against Israel - including the authors of Munich massacre - as heroes.
So we receive situation when sponsors and supporters of murderers thank IOC for not commemorating victims. WHOA!!!!!! That is something even Orwell might have problems imagining!

And nobody apparently sees a big problem with it! And giving up to bullying and terror. And being played by politics and money from terror-supporting states, and breach of every Olympic ideal there ever was cited in Ancient Greece and later (not like they were widely obeyed and put to life, but here there is not even small pretension about trying to apply them or hide the influence).