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Remembering the Munich Massacre, 40 Years Later

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At a memorial ceremony, the Olympic flag flies at half-mast following the brutal murder of 11 Israelis, September 6, 1972American Jewish Leaders Commend President Obama for Supporting  Moment of Silence at 2012 Games

Prominent Jewish organizations, including the Zionist Organization of America, are praising President Barack Obama for his unequivocal support for the commemoration of the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has rejected calls by Israel and international Jewish organizations to hold a minute of silence to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the slaughter. 

National Security Council spokesman, Tommy Vietor, told ABC News that, “We absolutely support the campaign for a minute of silence at the Olympics to honor the Israeli athletes killed in Munich.”
IOC President Jacques Rogge has been also asked to reconsider the IOC’s longstanding opposition to the memorial before the London Olympic Games open on July 27 by the Canadian and Australian parliaments, the U.S. Senate and the German Bundestag.

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, “We praise President Obama for expressing unequivocally the Administration’s support for a commemoration involving a minute of silence at the upcoming London Olympics for the Israeli athletes who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists at Munich in 1972. It is disgraceful that such a straightforward, honorable and proportionate request by Israel, Jewish organizations and the victims’ families has been refused by the IOC, to their eternal shame.”

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