[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5568]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   MR. CARTER--DON'T MEET WITH HAMAS

  (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, yesterday Al-Hayat reported that former 
President Carter will visit Syria to meet with Hamas leader Khaled 
Meshal.
  The State Department lists Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization. 
It is responsible for the murder of at least 26 American citizens, some 
of them teenagers, children, and infants, like David Applebaum of Ohio, 
Nava Applebaum of Ohio, Alan Beer of Ohio, Marla Bennet of California, 
Benjamin Blutstein of Pennsylvania, David Boim of New York, Yael Botwin 
of California, Dina Carta of North Carolina, Janis Ruth Coulter of 
Massachusetts, Sara Duker of New Jersey, Matthew Eisenfeld of 
Connecticut, Tzvi Goldstein of New York, Judith Greenbaum of New 
Jersey, David Gritz of Massachusetts, Dina Horowitz of Florida, Rabbi 
Eli Horowitz of Illinois, Tehilla Nathanson, age 3, of New York, Malka 
Roth of New York, Mordechai Reinitz of New York, Yitzhak Reinitz of New 
York, Leah Stern of New Jersey, Goldie Taubenfeld of New York, Shmuel 
Taubenfeld of New York, Nachshon Wachsman of New York, Ira Weinstein of 
New York, and Yitzhak Weinstock of California.
  President Carter, the voices of these victims in the grave beseech 
you: Do not meet with the man who ordered their murders.

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