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Ted Poe: They cry peace, peace, peace in the daylight, but, when darkness of the night comes, they murder the innocent. Such was…

On the recordMarch 15, 2011
They cry peace, peace, peace in the daylight, but, when darkness of the night comes, they murder the innocent. Such was the case over the weekend when suspected Palestinian radicals killed five Israeli members of the Fogel family living in the West Bank. The assassins slithered into the Fogel home and murdered Udi and his wife, Ruth, and brutally butchered three of their children, ages 11, 4, and 3 months. These homicides are an act of terror against the Jews of Israel. They appear to be political murders by radicals who preach hate in the name of religion. Baby killers of any religion or political belief are the lowest forms of the human existence. Israel has the absolute right to existence. But those that have the blood of babies on their hands refuse to let Israel exist. The murder of the Fogel family is yet another example that Israel cannot have peace as long as their neighbors hypocritically preach peace in the daytime and practice murder in the nighttime. And that's just the way it is.
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Ted Poe
Republican · Texas
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Mar 15, 2011

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The speaker addresses the murder of the Fogel family by suspected Palestinian radicals.

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