[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23319]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         NETANYAHU U.N. SPEECH

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, last week at the United Nations, Israeli 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a powerful address, challenging 
those who would deny the Holocaust. Speaking from the podium, he held 
up the documents recording the Nazis' plan for the eradication of the 
Jews. He held up the original blueprints of the Auschwitz concentration 
camp, signed by Heinrich Himmler, the infamous head of the Gestapo. He 
called out those nations who sat by idly as President Ahmadinejad put 
forth vague insinuations that the Holocaust was just a phony pretext 
for the establishment of Israel. Ahmadinejad at other times has called 
the Holocaust ``a lie based on an unprovable and mythic claim,'' and 
he's called Israel ``a cancerous tumor that must cease to exist.''
  I applaud our diplomats and those of many other freedom-loving 
nations for showing no tolerance for his hate speech by walking out 
during the Iranian president's tirade. Any nation that denies one of 
the most horrific and barbaric acts of hatred and murder cannot be 
trusted to peacefully develop nuclear capabilities.

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