[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2892]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   WE WILL BE THERE TO DEFEND ISRAEL

  (Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, America has no better friend on the face 
of the Earth than the people of Israel. Israel is the only nation on 
Earth that can say they've stood by America 100 percent of the time for 
100 percent of their existence. And it's so important today that 
America, that our President, that this Congress, stand behind the 
people of Israel at this moment of supreme peril.
  When the Iranians are building a nuclear weapon as fast as they can, 
that the Iranians have said they're going to use it, America must stand 
by Israel. There should be no doubt in the mind of every Israeli, of 
every friend of Israel around the world that America will stand behind 
her best friend 100 percent the time, just as they have stood beside us 
100 percent of the time.
  We will be there for Israel to defend her safety, her security, and 
her prosperity against any enemy, any time, anywhere.

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