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The Unforgivable Anti-Semitic Rant of Mahmoud Abbas

Dr. Munr Kazmir
5 min readAug 18, 2022

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After refusing to condemn the 1972 murder of 9 Israeli Olympic athletes by terrorists, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made light of the Holocaust.

“It is time for our people to live in freedom, without walls and checkpoints”, urged President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas in his address to MEPs on Thursday 23rd of June, 2016. (Photo: © European Union 2016 — European Parliament.)

In the early hours of September 5, 1972, Olympic Athletes from all over the world slept peacefully, cosseted inside the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany- surrounded by their teammates and fellow athletes, perhaps dreaming of the gold medals they might win in the games that year.

They had all gathered in Munich back in 1972, as Olympic Athletes still do today, to bask in the warm spirit of international fellowship, good-natured athletic competition and peace.

Eight Palestinian terrorists calling themselves Black September had other plans.

After disguising themselves as athletes, the group scaled a fence, used stolen keys to enter the Olympic village, then forced their way into the quarters of the Israeli Olympic team at 4:30 a.m.

As the terrorists attempted to enter the first apartment, they were confronted by Yossef Gutfreund and Moshe Weinberg. Gutfreund was a wrestling referee and Weinberg a wrestling coach. The two men tried to stop the terrorists and Weinberg was shot.

The terrorists then forced Weinberg to lead them into the apartments of the other Israeli athletes, where…

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