{"id":1646,"date":"2022-09-12T17:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:45:08","slug":"millions-awarded-in-damages-for-terror-attack-at-munich-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/millions-awarded-in-damages-for-terror-attack-at-munich-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions awarded in damages for terror attack at Munich Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the 5th and 6th of September 50 years ago Black September perpetrated the massacre at the Munich Olympics. Black September was a front organization that the PLO hid behind so that Arafat could distance himself from the Black September terrorist attacks. At the end of August this year, relatives received sizeable compensation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Members of the grieving families arrive at the memorial service for the victims of the Munich massacre at Lods Airport on September 7, 1972. Photo: Eldan David<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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F<\/span>amily members of victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre recently reached an agreement with the German government over a compensation payment, just days before the 50th anniversary on September 5, which the families had planned to boycott.
\n\u201cThe government welcomes the fact that it was possible to agree with the relatives on an overall concept for the 50th anniversary,\u201d said Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s spokesperson, Steffen Hebestreit at the end of August, The Guardian reports. The newspaper S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung reported that the families would receive 28 million euros.
\nIn connection with the attack during the Munich Olympics 50 years ago, Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer. The members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September were closely linked to Mahmud Abbas and Yasser Arafat\u2019s Fatah party.
\nOn September 5, 1972, eight Palestinians stormed the Olympic Village in Munich, killing two Israeli athletes while taking nine Israelis hostage. Black September demanded that Israel release 234 Palestinian prisoners.
\nBecause of the attack, a curfew was announced in the Olympic city, and the games suspended. Israel refused to give in, and after negotiations with Willy Brandt, the organization was conveyed with hostages to the F\u00fcrstenfeldbruck military air base outside the city. When the West German police and military opened fire on Black September, they killed the nine Israeli athletes and coaches they held hostage. In the fighting that followed, five Black September members and a West German policeman were killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The three Palestinians who survived were imprisoned in West Germany. Due to the incident, Israel demanded that the world act more decisively and forcefully, and on September 8, carried out bombing raids on Palestinian so-called \u2018refugee camps\u2019 in Lebanon and Syria and other places in the Middle East.
\nThe Palestinian terrorist group Black September took its name from the Black September civil war in Jordan 1970. The war was fought between Jordan under the leadership of King Hussein and the terrorist organization PLO led by Yasser Arafat, as a representative of Mahmud Abbas.
\nThe PLO tried to assassinate King Hussein twice which led to violent confrontations in which Hussein resolved to expel PLO from the country.
\nJordan\u2019s army forced the PLO and Fatah to leave for Lebanon via Syria. Up until 1982, the PLO then had its base in Lebanon, which plunged the country into a long period of bloody civil war.
\nThe terror group Black September was founded after the war in Jordan to carry out reprisals against Jordanian authorities, the first notable attack being the assassination of Jordan\u2019s Prime Minister Wasfi al Tel in 1971.
\nAfter Black September was expelled from Jordan, the organization change to attacking Israeli targets, including the highly publicized Munich massacre of the Israeli athletes.
\nIn his book Stateless, Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad), the founder of Black September and co-founder of Fatah, also Arafat\u2019s security chief, wrote: \u201cBlack September was not a terrorist organization, but rather an auxiliary unit to the resistance movement\u2026 The members of the organization always denied any ties between their organization and Fatah or the PLO.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The terror attacks at the 1972 Olympics drew renewed attention this August during the European sports championships in, among other things, athletics, canoeing and table tennis that were organized in the city, but above all because of Mahmud Abbas\u2019s visit to Germany which coincided with the sports events.
\nAt a press conference with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Abbas was asked on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Palestinian terrorists\u2019 attack on the Munich Olympics in 1972, whether he was prepared to apologize to Israel and Germany for the attacks.
\n\u201cIf we want to go to the past, go ahead,\u201d Abbas replied in Arabic. \u201cI have 50 slaughters committed by Israel\u2026 50 massacres, 50 slaughters, 50 holocausts,\u201d he said, the last word in English.
\nAbbas\u2019 claims that the Palestinians have been subjected to 50 holocausts created an outcry both in Germany and in Israel: \u201cInconceivable, Scholz should have thrown Abbas out,\u201d wrote CDU leader Friedrich Merz on Twitter.
\nPrime Minister Yair Lapid was the first to express his outrage.
\n\u201cAbba\u2019s accusation against Israel of having committed 50 \u2018holocausts\u2019, while standing on German soil, is not only a moral disgrace, but a monstrous lie,\u201d Lapid tweeted in English. \u201cHistory will not forgive him.\u201d
\nIn a statement to the German newspaper Bild, Scholz was clear in his criticism of Abbas for downplaying the horrors of the Holocaust.
\n\u201cEspecially for us Germans, any relativization of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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