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Eliot Engel: “The disgusting spectacle of paying terrorists for crimes, for murders, calling them martyrs is something that really…”

On the recordJuly 5, 2016
The disgusting spectacle of paying terrorists for crimes, for murders, calling them martyrs is something that really, really irks all of us.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel expresses outrage over the PA's financial support for terrorists.

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