This has everything to do with the way the international community rewards terror, it is not just about sport. The Olympic Games isnt the issue it is the IOC, an international organization which has chosen to reward the Palestinian Leadership for their actions - that is what this is about, rewarding terror and becoming an enabler of terrorism by refusing to condemn it.
The Olympic Games were the stage for the most brazen act of Palestinian Violence against innocent people. The Black September terrorists were able to sieze the worlds attention by taking Israeli Athletes hostage, the fact that the IOC will invite the only group to ever attack the Olympic Games to join in but refuse to allow any official reciognition or rememberance for the victims of that terrorism is the hypocracy. That is why I question the validity of a Palestinian team to compete in the Olympics, it is just another chapter of the international community rewarding terrorism. You will not see a Tibetan Olympic team for that very reason, they are unable to grab attention and become the archetypal victim who can do no wrong. The Palestinians would not be at the Olympics if they never resorted to terror, now even if they did use terror to achieve their ends by 2000 they were able to have their demands met, they refused and began a renewed campaign of violence, this campaign has not been stopped by the Palestinians - the continue to coordinate attacks however thanks to some very good operations by the Israelis the frequency has dropped, but they have not stopped terror and I do not think that giving them reciognition when they havent even done anything productive is wrong.