[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 410]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   A NEW DIRECTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. In Gaza the United Nations gave the Israeli Army the 
coordinates of a U.N. school, and the school was then hit by Israeli 
tank fire, killing about 40.
  The U.N. put flags on emergency vehicles, coordinating the movements 
of those vehicles with the Israeli military, and the vehicles came 
under attack, killing emergency workers.
  The Israeli Army evacuated 100 Palestinians to a shelter, and then 
bombed the shelter, killing 30 people.
  Emergency workers have been blocked by the Israeli Army from reaching 
hundreds of injured persons.
  Today's Washington Post: ``100 survivors rescued in Gaza from ruins 
blocked by Israelis. Relief agencies fear more are trapped, days after 
neighborhood was shelled.''
  Today the U.S. Congress is going to be asked to pass a resolution 
supporting Israel's actions in Gaza. I'm hopeful that we don't support 
the inhumanity that has been repeatedly expressed by the Israeli Army.
  The U.S. abstained from a U.N. call for a cease-fire. We must take a 
new direction in the Middle East, and that new direction must be 
mindful of the inhumane conditions in Gaza.

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