[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5631]
[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, The Washington Post reports that President 
Carter will visit Syria next week to meet with a Hamas assassin, Khaled 
Meshal. The State Department lists Hamas as a foreign terrorist 
organization, and it is responsible for the murder of at least 26 
American citizens: David and Nava Applebaum of Ohio, killed just before 
Nava's wedding; Alan Beer of Ohio; Marla Bennet of California; Benjamin 
Blustein of Pennsylvania; David Boim of New York; Yael Botwin of 
California; Dina Carter 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 of New York, age 3; 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, 3 months old, of New York; Nachshon Wachsman of New York; 
Ira Weinstein of New York; and Yitzhak Weinstock of California.
  President Carter, the voices from the grave beseech you, do not meet 
with the man that ordered the murder of these American citizens.
  I urge Members to sign our letter asking former President Carter not 
to meet with the killer of American citizens.

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