[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11813]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            AMERICA'S FLEET SHOULD LEAVE THE COAST OF ISRAEL

  (Mr. FRANKS of Arizona asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, last month, Palestinian President 
Mahmoud Abbas openly united with the evil terrorist group Hamas, and at 
this very moment they are raining down rockets upon the innocent 
citizens of Israel. Half of all Israelis have sought cover in bomb 
shelters across their tiny country. And the Obama administration has 
had the reprehensible gall to praise Abbas as someone who is 
``committed to nonviolence and cooperation with Israel,'' and to 
further proclaim in an Israeli newspaper that ``finally, peace is 
possible.''
  Mr. Speaker, I thought nothing this President could ever say or do 
would surprise me anymore, but this flushed and breathless rush to 
embrace terrorists launching rockets at Israeli children is an 
unprecedented act of cowardice and betrayal.
  America's fleet should, this minute, be off the coast of Israel, and 
the world, including Abbas, Hamas, and Hezbollah, should know that 
America's arsenal of freedom stands ready to defend our most precious 
ally on Earth.

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