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An organization named Avaaz has launched a campaign to ban Israel from the Olympics. Avaaz describes itself in carefully chosen terms that show it to be a staunch exponent of the left’s cultural agenda. It says it was “launched in 2007 with a simple democratic mission: organize citizens of all nations to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want. Avaaz empowers millions of people from all walks of life to take action on pressing global, regional and national issues, from corruption and poverty to conflict and climate change.” Predictably, this supposedly high-minded focus leads the group to hate the Jewish state. The implications of this initiative, however, go far beyond Israel, and threaten the Olympics themselves.
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Frank Anderson says
I accept being a grinch. I feel no sense of loss that football, basketball, baseball and the Olympics in general has become sold out to spineless jellyfish. These people are likely 4F in the event a draft is required to defend their lives homes and multimillion dollar salaries. Good Riddance. God Bless ALL who serve the US, in uniform and otherwise.
SC says
Frankly, who gives a damn. The only ones that really lose out are a few dozen athletes in each country. And do they really lose out when they are probably competing unequally against the agenda followers. The coverage is provided by lefty agenda driven media. The money is provided by lefties. Trainers and doctors abuse athletes or give them performance enhancing treatments. It really is no longer a place for decent people to cheer.
PRCS says
As a kid, Wide World of Sports covered both summer and winter events–feverishly–every four years.
I don’t remember what year I last watched.
Cynthia says
Some of us love the Olympics. It’s the time athletes get a chance to shine on the world stage in Gymnastics or figure skating,- sports that women love who don’t follow the big games ( that are also corrupt). I would boycott it however, if Israel was banned. There have been scandals and horrific events like Nazi restrictions and the Munich massacre. Like every major event, there is always the increasing security because of Islamists’ threats. We cannot stop a part of civilization’s tradition because of violent, backwards haters.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The only time the Olympics were interesting was during the Cold War, when communist countries produced innumerable athletes in most of the events, and it was like a sporting equivalent of the Cold War. At the end, we would look at the number of medals the US and its allies won, vs the number that the Soviets, Chicoms and their allies won. Once the Cold War ended and all that doping was exposed, it ceased to be interesting
The Olympics has yet to observe the 1972 Black September massacre of Israeli athletes in Munich
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
For me, the greatest Cold War Olympic victory was the “Miracle on Ice” during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
The United States upset the Soviet Union – and beat them 4-3.
Scotsman48 says
I, a young Scotsman in 1972, alongside an Austrian guy and a Nigerian guy were in charge of the Keys for the Gymnastics Stadium in Munich 1972 Olympics and I stayed in the building beside the terrorist photographed on the Balcony with the black mask on,.. They woke us in the middle of night and we thought it was a fire.
I was seriously in love with a young woman from Tell Aviv at the time and one of the Athletes murdered was her childhood sweetheart and she went totally to pieces and could not stop crying no matter what I tried to do… The Doctor gave her drugs to sleep.
I will NEVER forgive those PLO motherfuckers for what they did in Munch 1972 and I cheered when I watched the move Munich when they were hunted down and killed.
islamism is the new nazism.
OLD GUY says
Money has ruined sports. It’s now legally getting down to the college and soon high school programs. It used to be about the FUN and Joy of playing the game. Now it’s all about TV. ratings and MONEY. Don’t watch or follow pro sports anymore and about to drop college sports as well. MONY ruins everything!