Jack Kingston: “I certainly agree with those comments. The gentleman from Florida has been a true human rights leader, not just for his…”

“I certainly agree with those comments. The gentleman from Florida has been a true human rights leader, not just for his part of the globe, but for the entire world. Before I yield the floor to him, though, I wanted to say something about what the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) was saying in terms of the little boy on the bicycle leaving with pride that Israelis could defend themselves and having so much more spirit than maybe generations before him on another continent. When I was in Jerusalem several years ago going through the Holocaust Museum, certainly, one cannot go through a Holocaust Museum without having some emotional twisting in your stomach, in your heart, and just kind of a cascade of different thoughts go through your mind, but one of the more optimistic things that I saw was actually at the end of the Museum, there were some soldiers who were going through the museum. It happened that most of these soldiers were Israeli soldiers who were women. As the gentleman from Florida knows, they are armed most of the time, and it is almost a militia in that everybody is in the Army at some point in their lives. These young women were walking around in the museum, very casually, very focused on the museum, yet they all had strapped to them M-16s. I thought, that is a very symbolic message for anybody going through the museum, that it is the intention of modern day Israel to never let that sort of thing happen to them again.”