[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13329]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 ISRAEL

  (Mr. DeSANTIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeSANTIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in defense of Israel and their 
defensive war against Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization. It is 
an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. Its reason for existence is to 
destroy Israel. And Hamas desires a second Holocaust, although they 
won't acknowledge that the first happened. Hamas uses human shields to 
protect their weapons of terror.
  They are not protesting occupation. Israel pulled completely out of 
the Gaza Strip, including uprooting more than 10,000 of their own 
citizens from their homes nearly 10 years ago.
  Hamas has used the last decade to build a complex terrorist 
infrastructure, including tunnels designed solely to kill as many 
Israelis as possible. The U.S. should not be pressuring Israel to give 
Hamas breathing room. The complete defeat of Hamas and the dismantling 
of their terrorist infrastructure will be good for Israel's security 
and will be a decisive blow against international terrorism and the 
global jihad, which is good for our national security. We need to stand 
with Israel at this critical juncture.

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