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On the recordNovember 8, 2023
on October 7, Hamas terrorists crossed the border of Israel and committed atrocities, the full extent of which we are only just now coming to understand. Thousands of innocent Israelis have lost their lives. Israeli babies were beheaded--literally beheaded--put into ovens, according to news reports. Innocent civilians were shot in their homes when they answered their front doors. Soldiers who were asleep in their beds were executed. And the terrorist attacks have continued. Amazingly, in the United States--even as this terrible attack was unfolding in Israel--in the United States, hundreds and thousands of students and others took to America's campuses to express solidarity, not with innocent Israelis who had lost their lives but with Hamas, and to voice support for the genocidal campaign that Hamas has sought to carry out and continues to advance and advocate even as we stand here today. Take a look at just some of the things that have been said by students on America's college campuses. Students at Harvard University said they held the Israeli regime ``entirely responsible''--entirely responsible--``for all the unfolding violence.'' You had students at the University of North Carolina who said they believed it was their ``moral obligation to be in solidarity with the dispossessed, no matter the pathway to liberation they choose to take. This includes violence.'' Oh, and Hamas is violent.…
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Josh Hawley
Republican · Missouri

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