False Rhetoric

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Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot of false rhetoric flying around this country and around the world, the U.N., the whole works--including today even a shutdown of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco by pro-Hamas pro-Palestinian protestors. They are sure not making themselves a lot of friends for their cause, are they?

What does it really boil down to? Since the Gaza Strip was created not that many years ago in order to give an area to the Palestinians to have, the ink wasn't even dry on the agreement before they started setting off rockets and mortars and launching them upon the people of Israel who only seek peace. Israel only seeks peace, yet what do they get? They get deal after deal offered, negotiation after negotiation.

Truly, what it boils down to is a great quote I saw here very recently from a fellow named John Spencer at West Point who said: ``The sole reason for civilian deaths in Gaza is Hamas. For Israel's part, it has taken more care to prevent them than any other army in human history.''

Let that settle in for a minute. They have taken more care than anybody to prevent civilian deaths. Hamas is the one causing them.

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