Political Quotes

“this resolution is sponsored by me, the Republican leader, Senator Menendez, Senator Corker, and others. I want the record to reflect that Senator McConnell and I have talked about this personally and we have agreed, without any hesitation, about this legislation. I have always been a supporter of the United Nations my whole career. What I saw last week disgusted me. As the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva voted to adopt a resolution accusing Israel of human rights violations in the ongoing Gaza conflict, the resolution was so incredibly one-sided and anti-Israel biased that it makes zero--none-- mention of Hamas and the atrocities Hamas has committed by indiscriminately barraging Israel and using Palestinian civilians as human shields. Hamas perpetrated this conflict. They wantonly fire rockets, and they don't care where the rockets go. Hamas has fired almost 3,000 missiles during a 3-week conflict. In fact, the very day the U.N. Human Rights Council exonerated Hamas, it fired dozens of rockets into Israel the same day. These aren't firecrackers. These are very violent, powerful weapons. They have a number of rockets. It is estimated they have 10,000 of them. They have something called WS-1E. It is a Chinese rocket, but they got the blueprints--Iran did from the Chinese--and, of course, they shipped these surreptitiously into Gaza. They will travel some 30 miles and they carry about 40 pounds of explosives. They have another one called the Fajr-5.…”