American Jewish Leaders Commend President Obama for Supporting Moment of Silence at 2012 Games
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.”