Political Quotes

“Mr. President, on October 7, 2023, the terrorist organization Hamas invaded the State of Israel. Terrorists killed 1,400 Israeli civilians, including women and children, people asleep in their beds. They went door to door. They shot Israelis in their homes. They shot soldiers as they were asleep, unawares in their barracks. They wounded more than 3,700 civilians. That includes 31 Americans at least. Over a dozen Americans have been taken hostage and many, many more Israelis. It is the worst attack on the Jewish people and the State of Israel in 50 years. It is truly an existential threat to the State of Israel and, really, to the safety of Jewish Americans and Jewish people all across the world. Perhaps incredibly disturbing--maybe almost as disturbing as the facts of these terrible attacks themselves--is the response of some people in this country, on our college campuses in this country, who promptly took to the streets, to the courtyards of these campuses, to the airwaves to broadcast their support for this genocide against the people of Israel. That is right. I said their support for the genocide against the people of Israel. Listen to what these students said. At Harvard University, students wrote that they ``hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible''--``entirely responsible''--``for all unfolding violence.'' Think about that. They hold the Israelis, the Jewish people, responsible for their own deaths and massacres.…”