Political Quotes

“Today South Africa will present its case against the Israeli Government at the International Court of Justice. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record the link for the case: https:// d12t4t5x3vyizu.cloudfront.net/tlaib.house.gov/uploads/2024/01/192- 20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf It is incredibly powerful to witness people who defeated apartheid in their own country hold the Israeli apartheid regime accountable for its crime of genocide in Gaza. Today, I am thinking of Nelson Mandela's powerful words: ``We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.'' In the past 3 months, Israeli forces have killed over 23,350 Palestinians, including more than 9,600 children. They have injured more than 59,400 Palestinians. More than 8,000 Palestinians are still missing under the rubble. This week, Secretary of State Blinken called the case meritless. Let me read directly from the case file starting on page 59: ``Expressions of Genocidal Intent Against the Palestinian People by Israeli State Officials and Others'' so you can hear directly from the Israeli officials in their own words, not mine. President Herzog said: ``It's an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware not involved. It is absolutely not true. . . . and we will fight until we break their backbone.'' He is one of the many Israeli officials to have handwritten messages on the bombs to be dropped on the children of Gaza.…”