[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 113 (Thursday, July 26, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H5295]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REMEMBERING 11 ISRAELI OLYMPIANS

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, in 1972, Palestinian terrorists broke into 
the Israeli Olympic compound and murdered, in cold blood, 11 Israeli 
athletes.
  In the 40 years since, shamefully, the International Olympic 
Committee has refused to have a minute of silence to commemorate these 
11 martyrs. They have rejected it time and time again. And tomorrow, 
the Olympic Games are starting in London, and they have rejected it 
again, shamefully.
  So I will use the rest of my 1-minute to do a moment of silence for 
the 11 Israeli athletes who lost their lives at the 1972 Olympic Games.

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