Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the supplemental emergency package that we are considering addresses a number of issues, including, very importantly, the challenge of supporting the Ukrainian people. It also includes $9.2 billion for humanitarian aid around the world, and some of that aid will assist with the humanitarian challenge in Gaza. But I want to address that challenge in Gaza today in far more detail and argue that we need to do more; that we are so connected to the circumstances in Gaza because of our very close relationship with Israel; that the United States has a moral imperative, a moral responsibility, to launch a massive effort to address the humanitarian challenges in Gaza--to address the shortage of water, the shortage of food, and the shortage of medical supplies. We have worked conscientiously with Israel to try to dramatically increase that aid. We have done so month after month after month, but that effort has produced only a trickle of aid compared to the need, and the circumstances in Gaza continue to deteriorate. So the United States needs to operate or launch ``Operation Gaza Rescue''--or give it some other name but a bold and dramatic intervention in the humanitarian circumstances in Gaza. Let me be clear. Israel had every right to go after Hamas after the horrific assault by Hamas terrorists on October 7 on villages in Israel, but how Israel conducts that war matters. Hamas is Israel's enemy.…”