Just One Minute

Will the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spare just one minute to remember the 11 Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics? Of course not, in 1972 they barely paused the Olympics. 11 Israelis are of nothing to the IOC, let alone the Muslim countries that will be at the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony. Do you think that the delegations from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Pakistan, Indonesia, Algeria and other Muslim states would observe the minutes silence, or would there be some sort of protest - on behalf of the Palestinians? Indeed the  (IOC) have stated that to introduce such a specific reference to the Munich massacre could alienate and offend some members of the Olympic community. Alex Gilady, an Israeli IOC official, told BBC News Online: "We must consider what this could do to other members of the delegations that are hostile to Israel."