8 scouts, it is, and referees enough mention grove. i had traveled to munich as part of these ready team, fiona, with high hopes, afternoon and greats ambitions. allah hoffman and the ball hope home ended in a nightmare after we're move up newton mcfield as well as 8 heavily armed members of the palestinian terrace group. black september morning. the symptoms of the invaded so the olympic village, the early hours of the 5th of september, 1972, they were completely unhindered as they took these rarely sportsmen hosted all this on them cried here and there are 2 of them were brutally murdered in the apartments at connelly strauss at 31 at the 9 others season or were killed here, i am with this place where the german emergency forces rescue operation will pause catastrophically failed to attended in a blood bath. so if you do spark over on 11 jury sportsmen were dead and mordred and doors murdered in germany. osgood and doors in germany of old places,

figure the girth, order phone, tar on at gas to day in the day of sorrow, remembrance, and contemplation. who do you stunk of? i'm profoundly grateful the to you, the families of the victims are here today because these of her president her and also that you mine, as president isaac had sought i here today young without all of you, without the family members, without the presence of the state of israel because you'd been, i think there was no way we could have had the proper active remembrance allen in my thanks. go answer. every one who helped of the been past few weeks to make joint remembrance possible to day says, angry with does it come on at family members like we cannot fathom what the suffering, which pain you've been through on. and we can only imagine what the losses of your son's husband's fathers meant to you and will not. and still means to you. he lived on vida of zoom of hall. how can life go on for

a young woman can come who has just had her 1st child with his father will never come home, really among right. and how can life go on with the image is more power of the room bearing the marks of murder, beaming in vision, and with the knowledge and figure, moment that your husband or father, nordstrom had to endure more hours, fearing for his life in that room, advised me, do you know, how can life go on with the memory that your husband after being shot before, was left to blade out in front of his team mates. munger? indescribable agonies remains 5 pock. how, how can life go on? when you receive 2 postcards from unix, more that is in which on now murdered, son had written his guns that everything was wonderful. and that he was looking forward to coming home. his wife was like, i know the suffering, the pain, the trauma, learman, even lavonne in your families and me to the present day. nothing in your lives is

as it was before night and 72. nothing is, as it could have been and should have been and from the up st. the 5 decades when the smith that knowing pain, who has been with you, you speak of a merging honest guess his article on the games and munich was supposed to be completely different from the previous games in germany. those of 9036, which the nazis balk estranged as a bombastic propaganda display member cd and copeland in which they shamelessly and unscrupulous they misused the olympic ideal. the munich, 1972 was supposed to be a counterpoint to berlin. 9036 public. the young federal republic wanted to showcase itself as a cosmopolitan, liberal society that was recognized and respected among democracies afar and at wanted demonstrates that it understood and would become committed to it's

historically rooted responsibility was and yes, there was the ambition to present the cheerful games in the germany and that left spiked helmets and goose stepping behind her. even all that there was also just go the house responsibility to take care of sports people when bizarre from all of the worlds including and especially those from israel, you talks and exit from israel. the door, which had been threatened from the 1st day of its existence, surrounded by hate. then mitzi, the use of narcan. people in israel have always known that the jews state has to be strong, had well defended you. in germany, we get the sports people from israel who our guests, their safety had been entrusted to us on vice vas. what a great vote of confidence that was in the us who after the crimes against humanity of the show are under numbers and spirit to take part to the olympic games in the house. he sits by the country of the perpetrators. robin. oh,

who will be among the athletes and coaches? there were also survivors of the shower from barnabees with good part of the sad and painful truth. he will, this commemoration is the fact that we wanted to be good. how's that sound? the israel is now, however, of amusing the door itself because if we were not able to live up to the trust that the israeli sportsman, the families had places in germany and they were not safe or they were not protected. and people was, they were tortured and killed by terrorists in our country, from the bargaining organized when germany, we were not prepared for an attack of this kind of i'm. and yet we ought to have been scoops of that too. as part of the bitter truth of we were not prepared often and it would fall into the, the possibility that foreign terrorists with this time abuse the olympic ideal about cold blooded and prepared to use every form of violence as long as we were not prepared for a terrorist attack consciously orchestrated in front of an international television

audience. allentown has been moved from ladies and gentlemen, the efforts of 972 to showcase germany as a peaceable friendly democracies. from those efforts and tragically failed and munich law boldly. olympic village, buena became an international stage for the terrorist long room through an international stage for anti semitism, good nato, and violence in the month. and that should never have been allowed to happen. stephenville from the arna, find them law of the war. we stand helpless before it truly despicable act says that then federal president coast of heinman, so on felton cling and he was struggling for compose himself when he said these words, oh lord, it was indeed, but truly despicable act. clearly there could bots, ladies and gentlemen of that alone does not explain the catastrophe. that's habit and munich came forth. many would later describe the catastrophe as inconceivable

for those had been there at the time. perhaps that was probably the overwhelming feeling of up hadn't been. however, god of your door should we been germans of old people, you, should we not have known that the idea of inconceivable, etc. is a fallacy worth? well, the can have terrible consequences and foster barcode, inconceivable, etc. or is a concept that is designed to ward off questions on distract from the real question was ne monson. how could such a thing happen? he began that had never been allowed to happen on a schedules elsewhere as we commemorates a day. and we must sincerely and truly remember the events of the past fall in such remembering as painful that is most especially. so for you, the families, phones, and doors between germany too, we must feel that pain, the events, if not to $72.00, left steep dogs gaz within the lives of those all the lost loved ones. the trauma munich has embedded itself again. then our collective memory in israel,

you've noticed deep dark scars. i've had also been left in the stockman for us in the city of munich game. and in the federal republic of germany, good numbers of today's act of remembrance can only be sincere, i'm bytes. and if we are prepared to recognize painful, fancy, if we acknowledge all that the story of the olympic attack is also a story of misjudgments by and of dreadful. and thirdly, of vital mistakes. yeah, i know phys arden's law of in fact failures because this modem on that acknowledgement is overdue. 9 new character commonly know the perpetrators did not come from germany responsibility for these murders and lay with the palestinian killers. the libyan helpers, wicker does one horse. again pull, it isn't such. it is bitterly disheartening to realize that there's been not one word of sympathy,

but not one word of regrets from the current political representatives of those countries. it was they the killers at those who held them age, palestinians, and their handlers, even as to you and who brought their hates and terrorism to munich. the target for unfold reduces, they are responsible for the crime. i'm it of a damn. it is and vanish high, but that does not absolve us on foreign. we bear responsibility ju, them disgusted. the responsibility of the house for not having prevented him from what we had an obligation to prevent some responsibility to protect the lives of the hostages ago from people who found themselves the hands of terrorism. to day jarvis, 50 years on the future of he live many questions. far too many questions in dom remain unanswered, acted horrify of the games. where resumed on the very day the memorial service was held, the games must go on. they said, and the politicians are to did all they could to demand to get back to business as

usual into the attack was followed by years and decades of silent st. blocking outside years with increasing indifference even to the fate of the family's household. yes, of callousness of does his own father that too is a failure. become to those other seeing how could all this happens at fog emerson fiance, we must face up to that question and such, frances, login and in and on. we must finally want to find those answers you believed and teeth of why, where the surviving perpetrators handed over so quickly. we had never prosecuted again. damn. it is hard to bear that one of not the one of the criminals boast of the crime to this day, and neither good nor gives assurances on camera that he would do it all again, even though in forbidden. the food was exactly where the perpetrators connections to german, right wing extremists and the bottom line of group. because why, where the demons security forces so badly equipped and so badly out of their

department. domino's etha league novia did germany ignore warnings from israel lucifer. and why, by the of of high on got was israeli help with the rescue operation. refuse just seen delinquent, a hisco my were files kept on the lock and key for decades and ignoring and why was their very existence denied of his niece. and mo, i know does, why was there not even a committee of inquiry? my government, how many of a move i ladies and gentlemen, by talking about the great tragedy and 3 felt veil is over the 1st season lies the preparations for the games and the security strategy die with them from the 2nd comprises the events on the 5th and 6th, the september 1972 them talk now. the 3rd failure begins on the day after the attack, the silence, the blocking outs against the forgetting is the grocer's also quickly wonders when i expressly welcome his sailors thoughts in historical commerce. the proposal from the federal government would convene an israeli german commission of historians. i

hope the commission will succeed in shedding more lights on to this dark chapter. does the mercury pre condition for their says that they will have a comprehensive access documents in nevada and that they will be supported in their work on the experts from both countries will have a great responsibility on their shoulders. i mean they're working. we may well bring painful, uncomfortable truths to light saga for them as indeed it must remove existence mentions one. however, we must confront and process the history of munich, 1972 and also our history failing to do so. i'm a b leo functions. 11 important lesson of munich, 972 is this moving on to m long. we must move to some husband of late from a vine sicilian against every form of anti semitism in our country. every form of anti semitic hates and anti semitic violence. this ease and remains in our responsibility, him the face of history. another important lesson is that we must be able to defend

our democracy. freedom and security are not opposites. they are. interdependence possess of the liberal society and can never fully protect itself from terrorists attacks. the target one thing, freedom itself from bombs, bonds, we must be vigilant. ty, visa be the enemies of democracy. we do both and from within and from without on him. we live in a time, after all, in which liberal democracies are being challenged more strongly and not from within and from outside. there is another lesson that munich $72.00 teachers are only when we know the true feeling on forgiveness when we own up to our mistakes and failures starkness of wines. can the wounds such as those inflicted wounds on our constitutional states in 72. so begin to heal as good, not through the finished on, on, on, at guests. and besides, however, not just about us. few father, mom b, v,

dumber it is primarily about those the who lost their lives. hooligan, it is about you. loved ones left behind and you have a right to finally know the truth. hard to finally receive answers to the questions that have tormented you for decades. and this includes wrong in the question, amounts of why the along a line you are left alone with your suffering, your pain for so long resigned. it would be 45 years before a worthy place of remembrance was instituted by the olympic park. john, when it was in vale 5 years ago, and then israeli presidents revenue wriggling through the end of lee and some of the families were there. we mourned together. i'm familiar and we remember together so knock on mo, from which was to take another 5 years. i knew before agreement was reached with an unsuitable compensation leave again to leave on annette. guests on that family members present had soc,

is in fire. we are united in quiet remembrance of the 12 people who lost their lives isn't filed and smell. we are united within sorrows and as this, but let us not forget your smell. it is your pains, and you are the pain of those who lost loved ones. you used to long and also it is your pain, which we have failed to adequately recognise for far too long. and i also know that as the agreement we have now reached will not be able to hear all the open wounds or to death of ours quickly. i therefore direct the following words, specifically to you, john, whose lives power have been blighted by losses, grief and pain for 50 years of good man, but we cannot make up for what to happen out of young. we cannot make up for the obstruction, ignorance and injustice you experienced that james, me have you for whom yarn. therefore, mention omens. 5 years ago i ask your forgiveness.