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On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:15:01 -0700 (PDT), drahcir <snidelywhiplashisnotmyname@yahoo.com> wrote:

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On Aug 9, 11:30 pm, dsharavi <deshar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Jewish gal shows up IOC with a gold salute to Munich 11
By LEONARD GREENE
10:38 AM, August 8, 2012

It wasn’t a gloved-fist salute from the medal stand, but Jewish-
American gymnast Aly Raisman made quite a statement yesterday by
winning a gold medal and invoking the memory of the Israeli athletes
killed 40 years ago in Munich.

Raisman finished first in the women’s floor exercise, but she deserves
to have another medal draped around her neck for having the chutzpah
to face the world and do what needed to be done and say what needed to
be said.

At the same Olympic Games where bigoted organizers stubbornly refuse
to honor the slain athletes with a moment of silence, 18-year-old
Raisman loudly shocked observers first by winning, then by paying her
own tribute to 11 sportsmen who died long before she was born.

And if that weren’t enough, she won her event with the Hebrew folk
song “Hava Nagila” playing in the background.

“Having that floor music wasn’t intentional,” an emotional but poised
Raisman told reporters after her performance.

“But the fact it was on the 40th anniversary is special, and winning
the gold today means a lot to me.”

Then Raisman stuck the landing.

“If there had been a moment’s silence,” the 18-year-old woman told the
world, “I would have supported it and respected it.”

It was 40 years ago at the 1972 Munich Games that members of the
Israeli Olympic delegation were taken hostage and eventually killed by
Palestinian radicals.

Executed in the massacre were 11 Israeli athletes and officials and a
West German police officer.

The martyrs were remembered this week during a London ceremony filled
with sadness and reflection.

But not a peep about them has been said publicly in the one place
where it counts — at the Summer Games on Olympic soil.

The International Olympic Committee and its president, Jacques Rogge,
have refused to properly honor the dead, arguing that the opening
ceremony wasn’t an appropriate forum for a moment of silence.

But if the opening ceremony is good enough for James Bond and Mr.
Bean, it’s hard to understand why it’s not good enough for 60 seconds
of solitude.

“Shame on you International Olympic Committee because you have
forsaken the 11 members of your Olympic family,” said Ankie Spitzer,
whose husband, Andre, an Israeli fencing coach, was gunned down in the
massacre.

“You are discriminating against them only because they are Israelis
and Jews,” she went on.

Rogge was an athlete himself at the very Games where the massacre took
place, representing Belgium on the sailing team.

“Even after 40 years, it is painful to relive the most painful moments
of the Olympic movement,” Rogge said at an unaffiliated service before
Spitzer spoke.

“I can only imagine how painful it must be for the families and close
personal friends of the victims.”

But by refusing to hit the pause button for a measly 60 seconds, Rogge
and other organizers have committed a sin nearly as grave as denying
there was ever a Holocaust.

Were it not for young Aly and her wedding dance/bat mitzvah
accompaniment, the Munich dead may have never gotten their due.

“I am Jewish, that’s why I wanted that floor music,’’ Raisman said.

“I wanted something the crowd could clap to, especially being here in
London.

“It makes it even much more if the audience is going through
everything with you. That was really cool and fun to hear the audience
clapping.’’

Raisman’s eyes opened as wide as the gold medal she would win when the
judges announced her score of 15.600 points after her mistake-free
routine.

Her top finish was the first by an American woman in the Olympic floor
exercise, and the win gave Raisman her second gold medal. Raisman
admitted the 40th anniversary of the Munich Games made her “hora” gold
even more special.

“That was the best floor performance I’ve ever done, and to do it for
the Olympics is like a dream,’’ Raisman said.

Raisman did not go to the Games with the star power of her teammate
Gabrielle Douglas or the résumé of world champion Jordyn Wieber,

But those who know her best said she works as hard as anyone, and,
more importantly, her heart is in the right place.

‘’I’m so happy for Aly,” Douglas, the first African-American to win
the all-around title, said after the floor competition. “She deserves
to be up on that podium.’’

“She is a focused person,” said Rabbi Keith Stern, spiritual leader of
Temple Beth Avodah in Newton Centre, Mass., where the Raisman family
are members.

“She’s very proud and upfront about being Jewish. Neither she nor her
family explicitly sought to send a message. But it shows how very
integrated her Jewish heritage is in everything that she does.”

Stern said he remembers picking up young Aly from preschool, and never
imagined she’d be some sort of megastar.

He described the US team captain as a big sister-type who is a mother
hen to all her younger siblings.

“I can’t wait to have her at the temple to talk about her experience,”
he said.

“I know her sister’s bat mitzvah is coming up, so maybe I’ll catch up
with her then.”

Stern said that he, too, was stunned by the IOC’s refusal to hold a
moment of silence.

“I’m happy to hear any other explanation,” Stern said. “But short of
some racist grudge somebody is holding, I can’t figure out why it
would be a terrible thing to do.”

Stern said he watched the routine and was blown away. Even so, he said
he is more proud of Raisman’s gold mettle than he is of the new
jewelry around her neck.

“I have to say, the statement just warmed me to the very depths of my
being,” Stern said.

He compared it to the iconic black-power, raised-fist protest made by
track stars John Carlos and Tommie Smith on the medal stand at the
1968 Mexico City Games.

“They’re not going to forget that,” the rabbi said. “I certainly
won’t.”

leonard.gre...@nypost.com

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Jewish-
American gymnast Aly Raisman made quite a statement yesterday by
winning a gold medal and invoking the memory of the Israeli athletes
killed 40 years ago
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she's something other than an American

She's many things other than an American. Let's see. She's a young
woman. She's an athlete. She's an olympic gold medal winner. She's a
student (I think). She's a Massachusettsan. There I've named five
things other than an American that she is. Can anyone name another?
Oh, you there, in the back, yes, you, the plain one with the drool on
his face (that's being kind), can you name something other than what
has been mentioned that Ms. Raisman is? No? Well, that's ok - we can't
expect something with your limitations to actually come up with
something on its own. You just go back and watch your shows, ok?

Turned out the little jewess slut was getting fucked in every orifice
by her favorite doctor, Larry Nasser. Certain things never change.

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