downstairs: Required viewing:

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/Also the best use of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" ever.

fascinating doc.

I wonder what thinks they should have the right to make this about them, instead of about the world ...

ah, they shouldnt have been there in the first place

turbidum: The Israelis were demanding a minute of silence.

One minute? Oh, the horror! The opulence; the extravagance! One whole minute!

.. let me try that again.

I wonder what *makes them think* they should have the right to make this about them, instead of about the world ...

ekdikeo4: .. let me try that again.

I wonder what *makes them think* they should have the right to make this about them, instead of about the world ...

I don't think the Israelis think it's all about them. It's not like they want every gold to go to them as recompense.

20th...40th...60th...80th...100th...Ho w many times will there need to be a moment of silence in future games?

Millennium: turbidum: The Israelis were demanding a minute of silence.

One minute? Oh, the horror! The opulence; the extravagance! One whole minute!

Except it isn't about the victims. The IOC does a ceremony every Summer Olympics in commemoration and did so again today, as at least one poster up-thread has pointed out. The dead are already being memorialized. What the Israelis want, want so bad that their foreign minister is personally pushing for it, is a full minute during the opening ceremonies coverage -which are supposed to be about the world coming together to celebrate athleticism- wherein everyone is directed to think about Israel and its suffering. This is show-boating; reducing the tragedy of that day in Munich to a PR stunt and using it to hijack for Israel a moment that ought to be about global unity.

So American. Anniversaries of Tragedies. Ugh. I hate that. HATE IT!