THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 2, 1976 21
Two Conflicting Views on Continuing the Olympic Games
By HOWARD RONTAL
The 1976 Olympics will
begin in Montreal July 17
under the spectre of the
1972 Munich murders. More
than 13,000 Canadian sol-
diers and police will protect
sportsmen and spectators.
The Israeli team left for
Montreal June 22 after at-
tending a public memorial
ceremony in Tel Aviv for the
/
athletes slaughtered by
e Arab terrorists.
Israel had asked the In-
ternational Olympic Com-
mittee to hold a similar
memorial in Montreal but
the idea was rejected. Ah-
^on Yadlin, Israel minister
education and culture
said, "The memorial service
held here is intended to
draw the attention of the
world to the Munich tragedy
so that nothing like it will
happen again.
"Regardless of world
tensions and dangers, Is-
rael will continue to parti-
cipate in every interna-
tional contest and
competition. Israel's
sportsmen are part of its
political struggle and even
in the so-called brother-
-hood of the Olympics, an
Israeli finds himself on the
front lines."
Meanwhile, in an impas-
sioned article published in
the July issue of "Sport"
magazine, New York col-
umnist Jimmy Breslin
called for the disbanding of
the Olympics, or in lieu of
that, U.S. withdrawal.
He charged that the
Games have been misused
to further a propoganda war
Israeli Chickens
Re-sold to Arabs
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in which the U.S. and Rus-
sia total there mdeals in tes-
timonial to their ideologies.
He recalls how Hitler turn-
ed the Berlin Games of 1936
into a major propoganda
victory and he remembered
with the horror that in-
spired the article how the
Arab terrorists tried to use
Munich and 11 murdered
Israelis for the same pur-
pose.
The Olympics, -he said,
"are a flatbed soundtruck
for the selfish interests of
any group in the world."
"Athletics," he contin-
ues, "are great moments,
moments only. You with-
draw because this marvel-
ous, fragile pleasure — a
great sports event — now
is part of the dismal real )
world . . . Protect always
the joy, the illusion, the
unreal. Leave the Olym-
pics to the political educa-
tion officers and the stone
killers."
In the view of this writer,
those great moments Bres-
lin covets needn't be perma-
nently ruined by the propo-
ganda war. Mark Spitz' still
captured seven gold medals
in Munich.
Nothing can wipe that
out. You don't turn from
something you love because
you can't make it perfect. If
we waited until we made
the world safe for the Olym-
pics there wouldn't be any.
What happens if an Is-
raeli is awarded a Nobel
Prize and Arab terrorists
bomb the ceremonies? Do
the Swedes abandon the
award or the ceremony?
What about the World's
Fair? If attacked should it
be cancelled for a century
until the world is calm
enough to hold one un-
marked by violence?
It is a shame that Israel's
determination to participate
has political significance,
but that's the way it is.
Breslin's "unreal, fragile"
Olympics shouldn't be aban-
doned because we can not
protect it from real world
contamination. Only by con-
tinuing the Olympics, and
searching for world har-
mony, and at this particular
time, a Middle East settle-
ment, can what is great in
the Olympics be main-
tained.
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BUENOS AIRES (JTA) camps did not exist, that the
and fertilized eggs to Arab
Nazi books and pam- gas chambers were invented
countries not bordering on phlets are appearing more by the Allies and that Hitler
Israel is on the increase. It and more prominently on did not murder six million
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City of Beit Shean countries that maintain The DAIA, the central rep-
Hitler himself is pic-
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — buys Israeli chicks and eggs high government and mili- of Europe.
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Although the material is paper, . said in an editorial
week for the visit of Premier also become a forwarding
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the
reports
said.
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But despite this, people
are moving to Beit Shean,
not leaving it, Rabin told an
overflow audience in the
town's Roman amphithea-
ter last Tuesday night. He
cited this movement as
proof of "the indestructible
Felix Rosenzweig, Chairman, announced that the Founders meeting of the Detroit Region of the
spirit of the people of Is-
rael."
National Conference of Synagogue Youth, NCSY, will be held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander
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NEW YORK — A year of
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and further Jewish Torah
education in all parts of the
world was proclaimed by
the Lubavitcher Rebbe,
Rabbi Menachem M.
S_chneerson.
The Rebbe called for a
certed effort to make the
,ilability of Jewish educa-
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ender Jewish auspices that
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Massacre Recalled
BUCHEREST (JTA) —
Romania's 50,000 Jews corn-
memorated last week the
massacre of 11,000 Jews in
Iasi by the Nazis 35 years
ago.
-
Rabbi David Cohen, National Director of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of Amer-
ica, will attend this monumental evening as the guest speaker and will discuss the importance and
effect of NCSY upon the American Jewish teenager.
The National Conference of Synagogue Youth is the youth division of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of America and has faithfully served the Detroit community with its activities
and maintains an International network of "out-reach" programs in thirty-seven states, six provinces
of Canada and Israel.
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Morris Flatt
Bernard Kaufman
David Pollack
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David Greenbaum
Judge Nathan J. Kaufman
Leo Rosen
Avern Cohn
David. B. Holtzman
Dr. Harris Mainster
Felix Rosenzweig
Irwin I. Cohn
Alexander Karp
Morris Novetsky
Nathan P. Rossen
Sally Fields
Gabriella Karp
Irving Nusbaum
Dr. Arnold Zuroff
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