Steny Hoyer: “Today the House will stand in support of Israel as it faces enemies bent on its destruction. For 8 years, Hamas, aided…”

“Today the House will stand in support of Israel as it faces enemies bent on its destruction. For 8 years, Hamas, aided by Iran and others, has sent deadly rockets and mortars into Israel; so many have already talked about that. In 2005, Israel dismantled its settlements and withdrew its military from Gaza, and still the rockets came, more than 6,000, as has been related, since Israel's withdrawal. Each one of them, the rockets that have been sent, those 6,000--intended to kill the maximum number of civilians and falling indiscriminately on southern Israel cities and towns--was a war crime by any definition. We would not tolerate, and no amount of criticism leveled on us would in any way modify our response.”