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“AMERICAN VICTIMS OF HAMAS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H2359 on April 16, 2008.
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AMERICAN VICTIMS OF HAMAS
(Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. KIRK. Madam Speaker, yesterday Shelley Berkley and I, along with 55 of our Democratic and Republican colleagues, sent a bipartisan letter to President Carter calling on him to cancel his meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal.
The State Department lists Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization, and Hamas terrorists are responsible for the murders of at least 26 American citizens, some of them teenagers, children and infants.
Here are two of the victims, 3-month-old Shmuel Taubenfeld and 3-
year-old Tehilla Nathanson. They are the faces of American citizens with their light extinguished by Hamas terrorists.
If you live in Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, California, North Carolina, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, or Florida, then Americans from your State have been murdered by Hamas.
President Carter, do not meet with the man who ordered the deaths of our fellow citizens.
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