[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 72 (Wednesday, June 5, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H3166]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 CONDEMNING TERRORIST MURDERS IN ISRAEL

  (Mr. LANTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANTOS. Madam Speaker, while America slept, another suicide 
bomber hit in Israel. Sixteen innocent people were killed, over 50 
people were wounded, many of them critically. Our population is 50 
times that of Israel. On a comparable scale, this would be like reading 
in our morning paper that 800 American citizens were massacred 
overnight, with some 2,500 wounded, many critically.
  In his speech at West Point, the President clearly stated, ``The only 
way to deal with terrorists is by preemptive action.'' We will have to 
do this wherever terrorists are planning to hit us, and the Israelis 
have to do it to protect their own citizens. This pattern of murder 
must come to an end.

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