[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11655]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           STAND WITH ISRAEL

  (Mr. DeSANTIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeSANTIS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the terrorist group Hamas 
launched three long-range rockets targeting an Israeli nuclear reactor.
  Hamas, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, has received support from 
the totalitarian government in Iran. Hamas is firmly dedicated to the 
destruction of Israel.
  Rather than back our ally, the Obama administration has exhibited a 
false moral equivalency that has bordered on outright hostility to 
Israel. Current law requires U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority be 
suspended if the PA is Hamas-influenced. Yet the Obama administration 
has continued to fund the Hamas-Fatah unity government with U.S. 
taxpayer dollars.
  Just this week, as the administration is underwriting the Hamas-Fatah 
government, the White House sends a special assistant to Israel to 
condemn the Jewish state for failing to broker a peace agreement with 
the Palestinian Authority that includes the Islamist terrorists in 
Hamas. This criticism was launched in the midst of receiving rocket 
fire.
  Rather than criticize Israel during this trying time, the United 
States should be standing firmly in favor of Israel's right to defend 
itself against an enemy that seeks the destruction of the Jewish state.

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