[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 111 (Thursday, August 2, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H5182]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

  (Mr. SNYDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, the violence in the Middle East continues. 
In December, I visited with wounded and with family members of the dead 
on both sides. Let me share with my colleagues some of the faces of 
violence.
  This lovely young woman, a Jewish family and her in-laws, her husband 
was executed with a bullet to the head in an Israeli office in Arab 
East Jerusalem 6 weeks before I arrived.
  This young man was shot in the chest, a Palestinian young man, the 
day before I arrived. This is at a hospital in Ramallah.
  And finally, this mother and her son. This man was shot in the upper 
abdomen about 10 days before I arrived. Several years before she had 
had another son that was shot in the head in the violence. This is also 
at a Ramallah hospital in the West Bank.
  An end to the violence, a solution, a peace agreement must come, 
because every traumatized family plants the seeds of more rage and more 
violence in the Middle East.

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