[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15351]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       ISRAEL UNDER ATTACK--AGAIN

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, sirens wailed the warning as over 
300 rockets from Hamas in Gaza rained down on Israel this week. 
Israelis were injured--and at least one was killed. But ensuring its 
absolute right of self-defense, Israel responded to defend its people. 
Prime Minister Netanyahu said it best:

       The terrorists are committing a double-war crime. They fire 
     at Israeli citizens and they hide behind Palestinian 
     civilians.

  But the new Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt, which was backed 
by the administration, has condemned Israel, not Hamas. The terrorist 
group Hamas doesn't want peace with Israel. It wants war. Hamas is the 
aggressor here. It kills Israeli citizens and then hides behind the 
skirts of Palestinian women. The world should condemn Hamas, not 
Israel. Israel has the moral right and legal duty to defend itself from 
the attacks by the barbarians Hamas. The United States should be bold 
in its total support of Israel, our ally. The United States should be 
bold in its condemnation of Hamas. And the United States should be bold 
in denouncing this continuing war by terrorists like Hamas on civilized 
nations.
  And that's just the way it is.

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