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On the recordMay 18, 2021
Is the gentleman aware that a few of our colleagues actually were lamenting that Iron Dome was preventing casualties in Israel because, for some reason, that might be seen as disproportionate with respect to whatever damage and casualties might be occurring in Gaza? And it seemed to me that the simple answer--I mean, just color me crazy here, my friend from Pennsylvania--might be stop firing rockets from Gaza, stop firing rockets at Israel. Would the gentleman also agree that our friends in Israel, the Israelis, call ahead, give them notice, tell them the missiles are coming in? They say, ``vacate the block because in 15 minutes that building is going to be gone.'' And then we heard our colleagues on the other side of the aisle lamenting that somehow AP or Al Jazeera were in a building that was taken out. Yet there is ample evidence that they knew full well that Hamas was operating in that building. They knew it, yet they were doing it anyway and they didn't care.
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Chip Roy
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