[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 663 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 663

Expressing support for the International Olympic Committee to recognize 
  with a minute of silence at every future Olympics Opening Ceremony 
 those who lost their lives at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2012

    Mr. Engel (for himself and Mrs. Lowey) submitted the following 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing support for the International Olympic Committee to recognize 
  with a minute of silence at every future Olympics Opening Ceremony 
 those who lost their lives at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and for other 
                               purposes.

Whereas in September 1972, in the midst of the Munich Olympics, members of Black 
        September, a terrorist group with ties to the Palestine Liberation 
        Organization's Fatah movement, murdered eleven members of the Israeli 
        Olympic Team consisting of athletes, coaches, and referees after they 
        were taken as hostages;
Whereas one West German police officer was also killed in the terrorist attack;
Whereas the international community was deeply touched by the brutal murders at 
        the Munich Olympics and memorials have been placed around the world, 
        including in Manchester, United Kingdom; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Munich, 
        Germany;
Whereas the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Rockland County, New York, has 
        placed a sculpture honoring the eleven Israelis who were killed at the 
        1972 Munich Olympics;
Whereas the JCC Maccabi Games has included a memorial tribute to the murdered 
        Israeli athletes, among the first victims of organized terrorism in our 
        time, at the Opening Ceremonies of every JCC Maccabi Games since 1995;
Whereas the 2010 Olympics in Beijing marked yet another instance with no 
        official recognition of the terrorist attack that brutally betrayed the 
        vision of the Olympic Games; and
Whereas the London Olympic Games in 2012 will mark four decades since this act 
        of terror took place without an appropriate acknowledgment of the 
        gravity of this tragic event not only for the Jews and Israelis, but for 
        all humankind: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) should observe a minute of silence to commemorate the 
        40th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack 
        and remember those who lost their lives;
            (2) urges the International Olympic Committee to take the 
        opportunity afforded by the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Munich 
        Olympics terrorist attack to remind the world that the Olympics 
        were established to send a message of hope and peace through 
        sport and athletic competition; and
            (3) urges the International Olympic Committee to recognize 
        with a minute of silence at every future Olympics Opening 
        Ceremony, beginning with the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games, 
        those who lost their lives at the 1972 Munich Olympics in an 
        effort to reject and repudiate terrorism as antithetical to the 
        Olympic goal of peaceful competition.
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