President Reuven Rivlin will depart this evening for Germany, at the invitation of German President Frank-Walter Stienmeier, where he will inaugurate a memorial to the Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics exactly 45 years ago, Rivlin’s office says.
“Forty-five years after the massacre, international terrorism continues to threaten and strike innocent civilians. There are still those who see the massacre of the sportsmen as an heroic act,” the president says in an email statement before departing.
“The center which we will inaugurate must carry a message for the whole world: There can be no apologizing for terror,” he says.
“Terror must be condemned unequivocally, everywhere. In Barcelona, in London, in Paris, in Berlin, in Jerusalem, everywhere. We, the international community, must stand united in the struggle against terror, determined to fight and defeat it.”
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