Political Quotes

“I rise to speak on two issues, but, first, I would like to ask unanimous consent that the New York Times article entitled ``We Are No Strangers to Human Suffering, but We've Seen Nothing Like the Siege of Gaza'' be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the New York Times, Dec. 11, 2023] We Are No Strangers to Human Suffering, But We've Seen Nothing Like the Siege of Gaza (By Michelle Nunn, Tjada D'Oyen McKenna, Jan Egeland, Abby Maxman, Jeremy Konyndyk and Janti Soeripto) We are no strangers to human suffering--to conflict, to natural disasters, to some of the world's largest and gravest catastrophes. We were there when fighting erupted in Khartoum, Sudan. As bombs rained down on Ukraine. When earthquakes leveled southern Turkey and northern Syria. As the Horn of Africa faced its worst drought in years. The list goes on. But as the leaders of some of the world's largest global humanitarian organizations, we have seen nothing like the siege of Gaza. In the more than two months since the horrifying attack on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people and resulted in some 240 abductions, about 18,000 Gazans--including more than 7,500 children--have been killed, according to the Gazan health ministry. More children have been reported killed in this conflict than in all major global conflicts combined last year. The atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct.…”