Catching up, I just read Derb’s post – and he’s correct, too.

It was the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics that put the “issue of Palestine” at the top of the world’s priority list – way above the cause of independence for Tibetans or nationhood for the Kurds, to take just two examples. The group responsible for the massacre, the Palestine Liberation Organization, was not just excused — it was rewarded.

Two years after Munich, PLO leader Yasser Arafat was invited to the UN. The PLO was invited to participate in the General Assembly and “the question of Palestine” was introduced on the agenda.