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Mark Kirk: yesterday Al-Hayat reported that former President Carter will visit Syria to meet with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal. The…

On the recordApril 9, 2008
yesterday Al-Hayat reported that former President Carter will visit Syria to meet with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal. The State Department lists Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization. It is responsible for the murder of at least 26 American citizens, some of them teenagers, children, and infants, like David Applebaum of Ohio, Nava Applebaum of Ohio, Alan Beer of Ohio, Marla Bennet of California, Benjamin Blutstein of Pennsylvania, David Boim of New York, Yael Botwin of California, Dina Carta of North Carolina, Janis Ruth Coulter of Massachusetts, Sara Duker of New Jersey, Matthew Eisenfeld of Connecticut, Tzvi Goldstein of New York, Judith Greenbaum of New Jersey, David Gritz of Massachusetts, Dina Horowitz of Florida, Rabbi Eli Horowitz of Illinois, Tehilla Nathanson, age 3, of New York, Malka Roth of New York, Mordechai Reinitz of New York, Yitzhak Reinitz of New York, Leah Stern of New Jersey, Goldie Taubenfeld of New York, Shmuel Taubenfeld of New York, Nachshon Wachsman of New York, Ira Weinstein of New York, and Yitzhak Weinstock of California. President Carter, the voices of these victims in the grave beseech you: Do not meet with the man who ordered their murders.
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Mark Kirk
Republican · Illinois

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Addressing former President Carter's planned meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal.

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