[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15861]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    SILENCE ON PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, once again, the world has seen another 
outbreak of Palestinian violence in the Gaza Strip. At least 14 people 
were killed and 70 were wounded the other day in Gaza City, bringing 
the total to at least 63 people having been killed.
  Fatah and Hamas are tearing the Palestinian area of the Gaza Strip 
apart in what they call a political rivalry, and the Palestinian people 
are paying a price for Palestinian violence. Governments from around 
the world and the Arab world have said nothing about this violence, 
while Palestinians kill each other.
  I just want you to think for a second, if this was a result of 
Israeli-Palestinian hostilities, would the international silence and 
the silence of the Arab world be this deafening? Does anyone really 
believe that if this level of violence existed between Israel and 
Palestinians that the U.N. would not be called into an emergency 
session to condemn Israel for the violence?
  Those same countries that normally attack Israel, I would hope you 
now find your moral voice and your moral conscience with the attack and 
senseless violence that is leaving the Palestinian people so hopeless.

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