On the recordNovember 18, 2014
I am going to use leader time for these remarks, and it will not interfere with any of the time that has been allocated to these gentlemen and ladies. In far away Israel, during morning prayer, a horrific attack took place. A number of people were having their morning prayer. Four rabbis were savagely beaten, hacked to death, with a meat cleaver. Two Palestinian men entered the synagogue in Jerusalem and savagely murdered these four rabbis in the midst of morning prayer. Three of these victims were American citizens, the other, I am told, was a British citizen. One of them was a leading scholar, Hasidic scholar. More than one dozen others were hacked, hacked with a meat clever, while they were there praying. A number of these people are in critical condition as we speak. Secretary of State John Kerry today said: ``Innocent people who had come to worship died in the sanctuary of a synagogue.'' Places of worship have always been a refuge in times of peace and in times of conflict. Yet these terrorists hacked and brutally murdered worshippers in the midst of prayer. This is not an isolated incident. Recently, Palestinian terrorists have carried out shocking attacks all across Israel. Seven Israelis have been killed in these horrible attacks, including a 3-month-old American infant--a baby, 3 months old--an Israeli soldier, a border patrol officer.…





