Washington, DC--I am very pleased that President Obama supports a moment of silence at the Olympic Games in London to honor the memory of the Israeli athletes slain at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

I hope this is the final impetus to get the International Olympic Committee to agree that a minute should be set aside at the Opening Ceremonies next Friday to honor those murdered Olympians.

The 'Munich 11' were early victims of the same terror that struck again Wednesday in Bulgaria and in America on September 11th. Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it, and we must not forget. It is only just that those who died at the 1972 Olympic Games be remembered on the 40th anniversary of their deaths 

The Munich 11 were part of the Olympic family, and the IOC’s rejection of a minute of silence is unacceptable. President Obama has shown them that they have a moral obligation to remember their dead in a way the world can recognize.

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