London 2012 organizers reject a proposal: a minute of silence to remember Munich victims

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Organizers fear of politicization

Olympics organizers rejected in London a minute's silence to commemorate the victims of the attack on the Munich Olympics in 1972.

Ankie Spitzer, was the wife of one of the Israeli athletes who were killed in the attack, I was able to convince the former Olympic committees since the attack so far in the adoption of the minute's silence.

Many of the dead process, including German policemen and five Palestinian bombers, were killed during the rescue operation.

Israeli intelligence has chased away people felstininine and liquidated believing to be linked to the process.

Spitzer said the BBC "the message contained in the parking of silence not hatred but, on the contrary, we want the world to remember what happened so they don't happen again."

A spokesman for the Organizing Committee of the games "London 2012" in a statement issued by the Committee "will effectively separate memorialization in a joint initiative of the Israeli Embassy and Jewish community and Olympic Committee."

"This is the best version to commemorate the anniversary.

Organizers feared and the International Olympic Committee of provocation and Arabic teams to go out during the event, and they are keen not to politicization of the games.

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