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Questions about Munich's New Memorial to Slain Israeli Olympic Athletes

(Tablet) Liel Leibovitz - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier unveiled a memorial in Munich on Wednesday commemorating the 11 Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the city's Olympic village 45 years ago. Nowhere on the new memorial does it say that the Germans were tipped off about the attack three weeks before it happened. Nowhere is it recorded that, as Der Spiegel uncovered five years ago, German officials met with Black September's Abu Youssef, the attack's mastermind, just months after the massacre and agreed to upgrade the group's status from terrorist organization to resistance group. Nowhere does it indicate that, as we've learned from the testimony of the head of the Mossad at the time of the attack, Tzvi Zamir, the German authorities made no effort whatsoever to save not only the lives of the Israelis but of their own police officers. This indicates a systemic pattern of neglect before, during, and after the attacks, putting innocents at risk and appeasing the perpetrators. If the Germans want to pay meaningful tributes to those Jews slaughtered under the watchful eye of their government, let them begin by acknowledging these failures, and taking concrete steps to assure they never happen again.
2017-09-07 00:00:00
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