[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 29 (Wednesday, March 6, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1719]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            THE MIDDLE EAST

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, Patrick Henry said ``Gentlemen may cry 
peace, peace. But there is no peace.'' In quick succession, four blasts 
have extinguished 54 lives and scarred another 210.
  Hamas has demonstrated again that it is a murderous group of fanatics 
who are so poisoned with hate--so obsessed with slaughter--that no 
innocent life is safe.
  Terrorism experts have stated that Hamas and its allies will attempt 
to inflict this sort of horror on Americans. We must work together with 
the Israelis in stopping these madmen.
  Arafat must also shoulder his share of the blame for this situation. 
He has failed to prevent the uses of territory under his administration 
from being used as a staging area for these plots.
  He has failed to comply with the conditions of the Oslo peace accords 
that required that he remove those sections of the Palestine National 
Covenant which call for the destruction of Israel.
  Until such time as Arafat lives up to those agreements he has signed 
and eliminates Hamas from areas for which he bears responsibility, the 
United States should know that there is little good in negotiating with 
him.

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