IV 
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. 
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 
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 ref-
erees after they were taken as hostages; 
Whereas one West German police officer was also killed in 
the terrorist attack; 
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Whereas the international community was deeply touched by 
the brutal murders at the Munich Olympics and memo-
rials have been placed around the world, including in 
Manchester, United Kingdom; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Mu-
nich, 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 Olym-
pics; 
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 Open-
ing 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 at-
tack 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 ap-
propriate acknowledgment of the gravity of this tragic 
event not only for the Jews and Israelis, but for all hu-
mankind: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) should observe a minute of silence to com-
memorate 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 anni-
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versary of the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist at-
tack to remind the world that the Olympics were es-
tablished 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 antithet-
ical to the Olympic goal of peaceful competition. 
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