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On the recordOctober 16, 2023
we all have a choice here: Will the United States act with courage or are we going to sit quiet and allow this barbarism to continue? Israeli forces report that Hamas bound boys and girls before shooting them in the head--children who were bound and then shot in the head. They found families who had been burned alive. There are reports that young women had been raped and then mutilated. Hamas turned a music festival into a killing field. The beheadings of babies--we have heard those reports. These will live in infamy. The historians have a phrase to describe massacres like this. It is ``Holocaust by bullets.'' It is inconceivable that any of my colleagues could tolerate the demands that Israel surrender to terrorists. It is time for this President, his advisers, and all of our colleagues--all of our colleagues--who told the Israelis to stand down to take a good, hard look at where complacency and appeasement gets us. Look at Gaza. Look at Iran. Look at Afghanistan. Look at China. Look at our own southern border. Since October 1, Border Patrol has apprehended 30 Iranians. That is since the 1st of this month, this year. This is who the Border Patrol has apprehended: 30 Iranians, 60 Syrians, 35 Pakistanis, more than 100 Russians, 285 Afghans, and 2,000 Chinese-- trying to cross our southern border undetected. Now, do they all mean us harm?…
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee

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