[NeroASERCH]

Wait let me put on my Captain Renault hat.......


shocked, shocked I tell you.....


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134525

From news article:
Young female athletes from Israel's fencing team swept top medals at a 28-nation European tournament held in Mödling, Austria last week – but faced an additional challenge when they stood on the winners' podium to receive their medals: the organizers did not play the recording of the Israeli national anthem, and the Israeli winners had to sing the anthem on their own, a capella style. The Israeli team's staff has no doubt that the incident was intentional.

Israel's Dana Strelnikov, 14, won the gold medal and Alona Kamarov won the bronze at the tournament, which hosted 120 fencers aged up to 17. Both Israeli medalists hail from the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot, whose fencing club has produced many of Israel's best young fencers. But as they stood on the podium and awaited the opening sounds of national anthem HaTikvah – they heard only silence. The girls and their trainers quickly understood what was happening and proceeded to sing the entire anthem on their own, with some scattered support from voices in the spectators' bleachers.

[MannoFr]

Shame on Austria. It reflects more on Austria than on Israel. I guess old dogs can't learn new tricks ... They have a long record:

- They gave us Hitler
- They gave us Eichman
- They gave us Kurt Waldheim

What can one expect from them?

[Paul Bunyan]

Don't forget to say "Bravo" to those young athletes!

You are right Tonto perhaps saying bravo to them is even more important than what I said above...

But hey I am not perfect. Sometimes it's easier to react emotianally and lash out instinctively as I did above.

[radikal]

Bunch of Nazis... what else do you expect from the lands of Schekelgruber and Eichman.

[Peptobismol]

Makes one wonder if their ain't a few lingering Jew haters in power over there. That's really pretty pitiful, ain't it?