[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 83 (Thursday, May 13, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2297]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ISRAEL-HAMAS CONFLICT

  (Mrs. LURIA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. LURIA. Mr. Speaker, throughout history, the Jew has never been 
safe. People have demonized, ostracized, and murdered Jews for 
millennia. From the ashes of the Holocaust, the massacre of 6 million 
of our brethren, Jews return to their ancestral home to build an oasis 
in the desert and a democracy of their own.
  Jews persisted, even in the face of ultimate evil. And, today, in 
their rightful homeland, they are attacked from within. Some call them 
villains for defending their home and their families; for not turning a 
cheek and a blind eye to terror, bombings, and missiles raining down.
  Who would turn a cheek when their mere right to exist is questioned? 
Or turn a blind eye when history has been so unkind?
  Not you and not the Israelis.
  And we as Americans, and me as an American and a Jew, must stand for 
what is right. We must declare that Israel has a right to exist; that 
Israel has the inherent right to defend itself; that we have a duty, as 
Americans, to stand by the side of Israel in the face of attacks from 
terrorists and suicide bombers and malign regimes, who, again, have the 
same goal in mind, to kill Jews.
  Now is the time to stand with Israel.

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