jonottawa, on 2013-August-18, 07:22, said:
A bridge tournament is far closer to an academic conference than to the olympic games. You may wish it weren't so, but it is.
If someone insisted that all Israeli players had psychological evaluations or background checks performed on them before being allowed to play in a particular tournament to ensure that they have never been associated with Kach and aren't the next Baruch Goldstein, we would all rightly find that deplorable and absurd. Even though that incident occurred much more recently and involved a far greater number of casualties than what transpired in Munich. Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
You as many others do not want to understand or you can not grasp the meaning what is written.
The issue is not whether a Bridge championship is the same as the Olympics. It is not and I do not compare these two.
The issue is, whether people from Israel representing their country are more likely to be targets for terrorists.
If I visit Berlin there are no security concerns. I am not considered a likely target. (Thanks heaven)
If Salman Rushdie is invited to a literature meeting in Kairo, he will be concerned about his secuity and rightly so.
If the US president visits Berlin there are security precautions costing millions.
If the president from Israel visits Berlin there are similar security precautions.
If the representative of another country say Poland visits Berlin there are only minor security precautions.
If I fly with Lufthansa there are security precautions
If I fly with EL-AL there are different ones and rightly so.
Rainer Herrmann