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Source: http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=279048
PA Thanks IOC for Refusing Munich Victims Memorial
(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestinian Football Federation, sent a letter to International Olympic Committee chairman Jacques Rogge thanking him for refusing to hold a minute of silence at Friday's opening ceremony in London to mark the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli sportsmen at the 1972 Munich Games, the PA's official news agency, WAFA, reported. A senior Israeli government official responded: "If the leadership of the PA is not willing to disassociate itself from its terrorist past, and is unwilling to see the Munich massacre as a brutal act of terrorism, then in Israeli eyes there will be big questions regarding their true commitment to peace and reconciliation." Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon noted on Facebook: "Palestinian Authority media refer to the Munich terrorists as 'stars' whose path should be followed."