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On the recordApril 3, 2014
I thank the gentleman from Florida for yielding and for pulling this Special Order together here and bringing out this case as something that all the American people aren't going to realize what is taking place here, if we don't have this discussion here. It takes leadership in this Congress to do this. I appreciate the strong voice of Mr. Perry and Mr. Weber. I look back at it this way. On my first trip to Israel some time more than 10 years ago, I looked across at what was taking place from Israel proper and West Bank, the Palestinian area. I went through the briefings and saw the data of a culture of people that raise their little girls to put on these fake suicide vests in order to make sure that they entrench deeply in them a multigenerational hatred towards Israelis and Jewish people. Now, why? It is not a rational thing for a culture and a civilization to be so full of hate; yet all they really need to do is accept the existence of Israel, and a lot of us, this resistance we have within us would start to dissipate. It wouldn't be gone because you don't just accept somebody's word who has such a history of doing what they have done. The hatred goes deep. I think of Congressman Gohmert of Texas, if he were standing here tonight, he would say: you don't have to pay people to hate you, they'll hate you for free. So all these billions of dollars--$5 billion since 1988, as Mr.…
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa
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Apr 3, 2014

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