(Algemeiner) Irwin Cotler - The refusal of the IOC to observe a moment of silence on the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre - the slaughter of 11 Israeli athletes for no other reason than that they were Israelis and Jews - is as offensive as it is incomprehensible. This steadfast reluctance not only ignores - but mocks - the calls for a moment of silence by government leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird; by various parliaments including resolutions by the U.S. Congress as well as the Canadian, Australian, German and Italian Parliaments; and the sustained international public campaign and anguished civil societies appeals. It is not hard to infer that not only were the athletes killed because they were Israeli and Jewish, but that the moment of silence is being denied them also because they are Israeli and Jewish. The writer as former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
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