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[applause] >> thank you. thank you s your kind introduction and for inviting me here today. mr. speaker, mk moshe tur-paz, mk dan illouz, distinguished guests, and dear friends, i am profoundly honored to speak in the hallowed halls of your knesset, in your eternal capital, the holy city of jerusalem, at this time of hi consequence for israel and the jewish people. today, i stand before you not just as a leader in the unitedsa lifelong admirer, supporter, and true friend of israel and the you see i am have had the privilege of traveling here many times before, but i must confess that this time feels different. the stakes are higher. our sense of moral, patriotic duty feels heightened, renewed.

226 days ago, we witnessed thep most vicious, brutal attack on israel and the jewish people since the holocaust, a barbaricd more than 1,200 innocent lives. civilian women, chi the elderly were ripped from their homes and massacred. raped, beheaded, jewish families babies burned alive. we must never forget, and we must never relent. israelis, americans, and others kidpped from their homes, beaten, tortured, and taken hostage to the terror tu benth gaza. every day that there are still over 120 souls held hostage, 226 days of captivity, including americans, held by hamas terrorist thugs.

let me bey not rest until the hostages are back home. this period calls to mind the many times for tried to destroy israel and the jewish people. since israel's first days of existence there have been those destruction.ght i you see, we saw the same eliminationist goal in 1948, during the fedayeen raids of the 1950s and 60s, in the '67 war, the '73 war, the successive wars against hamas in gaza, andain,nr 7th, 2023. what we are witnessing today is a story of the forces of goodor versus evil. the forces of civilization against the forces of barbarism, of humanity versus depravity. i want to share something i

heard the writer douglas murray say a couple weeks ago, whichvee this week, israel chooses life. murray is right, but let me go further. in choosing life, israel fulfills isaiah's prophecy, to be a light unto nas,ting for itd future in one very tough neighborhood. and i gethe that the people of israel know this.win t week after october 7, 360,000 israelis reported for military duty, flying home from around the world. that's the equivalent of 20 million americans, more i icerved in world war ii. fighters are but of college age in america. what a striking comparison, young israelis heeding the callr families, their people, and their homeland while the

pro-hamas apologists on so-called elite campuses across america are, in a paroxysm of blood lust, cosplaying hamas, calling for intifada and genocins sing final solution. chanting death to israel. and chanting death to america.k, but i want you to know something. those views, though given airtime by some radical democrat members of congress, those views do not reflect the views of the american people. the american people stand firmly behind you. and we're already seeing the majority in the body in which ii serve, the united states congress, fight back and turn the tide. let me repeat, america is firmly behind israel and the jewish people. and this goes back to our nation's founding. in 1790, america's founding father george washington wrote a letter to the jews of newport,

rhode island, expressing america's founding impulse, a he wrote that the united statesd sation and persecution no assistance. he further wrote, may the children of the stock of continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants, while everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. may the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.at as long as i serve the american peop wil defend george washington's vision of religious pluralism and freedom. today, this means crushing antisemitism at home, and

supplying the state of israel with what it needs, when it needs it, without conditions, to achieve total victory in the face of evil. for all of you, total victory needs no explanation. but total victory is something too many others throughout the free world fail to understand. total victory starts,bu starts, with wiping those responsible for off the face of the earth. there can be no retrievable dignity for hamas and its backers. torture of civilians, and the mutilation of infants as weapons of terrorism, they left no when the genocidal zealots running iran lobbed missiles at this very city, they removed any doubt as to the heous intentions. chants of death to america are not hollow slogans. they are a promise that what

happened here on october 7th co h states, unless hamas and its jihadist accomplicreated my country, and all countries, must stare truth in the face. this is not israel's fight alone. it is also our fight, the west's fight. in truth, total vict more than responding to one attack, it's about restoring a way of li. it is about securing the jewish state so that it no longer faces threats of annihilation from an, hezbollah, hamas, or any other'' high honor, and high responsibility, to support israel's effort. i have been clear at home and i will be clear here, there is no block aid to israel, aid thatnt was duly passed by the congress. there is no excuse to ease sanctions on iran, paying a $6

billion ransom to the world'sin, or to dither and hide while our friends fight for their no excuse. full stop. that's why i'm proud to have sponsored, or backed, every measure to aid isrl come before the united states congress. every single one. it's why i, as a senior member on the house armed services committee and intelligence committee, we have helped secure billions of dollars for the iron dome, david's sling, the ironth beam, anti-tunneling technology, counter-uas systems, and further development of emerging technologies, most recently in the supplemental aid package passed just las it's why i led the calls for the white house toin the corrupt icc. and it's why, for years, i haved partner to president trump in his historic suppoor independence and security including, moving the u.s. embassy to its rightful place in

jerusalem, the negotiation of the historic abraham accords, normalization in more than aeace quarter century, adopting the strategy to align the u.s.re central command with israel, a change that fostered daily communications with the idf, joint exe coordination with british and arab partners that h against the iranian attack, and lly, president trump's wise decision to call out unrwa for what it is, a hive of antisemitism, and to eliminate every dollar of its u.s. funding. when the enemy is inside the gates of the united nations, america must be the one to call it by its name and destroy it. president trump understood that, and b'ezrat hashem, we will return to that strategy soon. but you know as well as i that the enemy is inside more than just the gates of the united nations.ne

it is also in powerful western institutions in my country and beyond, where the virus, the vile virus of spreading. this is why total victory means not justsiense but ideological self-defense. as chair of the house republican conference, i'm proud that house republicans have passed bipartisan rolutions in support of israel, called out antisemitism in the halls of congress, and brought transparency to the antisemitic propaganda pushed on american students and paid for by foreign adversaries. we have passed bills like the deterrent act to ensure our foreign enemies cannot poison the minds of amerin i also serve as a senior member cation and workforce committee, where i led the charge to expose this moral rot of antisemitism infecting our mr

education it when we heard from jewish ic attacks aculty members, and taking place on their campuses, i demanded congress host a public hearing to hold co and universities accountable for their failure to combat antisemitism and their failure to protect jewish members of their community. and i know you all saw that hearing because the world saw that hearing. and i want to take you into that moment. my question was the last question of the hearing.f the committee yielded me her remaining three minutes. and i had asked queio back and forth with the president of harvard, now form'g direct answers. so when thinking through the last question, which was not pre-written, i wrote down in pencil right ahead of time and ghtforward, moral, how can i ask

way to force them to answer co and that question was, doesas calling for the genocide of jews violate your university's code of conduct on bullying and harassment? and one after the other, after the other answered it depends on the context. and the world heard. let me tell you, it does n dext. [applause] and over the yea bee in a lot of high profile committee hearings over the years, and i've never witnessed the moral bankruptcy and depravity of witnesses like i did in that hearing. in one week, there were over one billion views worldwide. it is now well into the multiple d there is a reason that it is the most viewed testimony in the history of the united states

congress. the moral rot at the highest levels of these so-called elite universities. and as i said after the to go.ations, two down, so many at o an earthquake. their disgraceful attempt to contextualize genocide of jews is a symptom of decades of moral decay, intellectual laziness, and dangerous radical groupthink at these so-called elite institutions across society. we have put colleges and universities on notice andci expanded this investigation to ensure every jewish and israeli student, faculty member, andsu staff member is protected on we're looking at foreignem o uversities, the failure to protect jewish students, the federal accreditation system, the assaulnerty and free speech, the antisemitism inherent in woke dei, the erosion in academic integrity, and the extent to

whic.s have been forced to bankroll the political indoctrination of young americans at these institutions. the days of un antisemitism, of anti-jewish racism, must be over. .. s of the old hatred accountable. ladies and gentlemen, this has reflud my takes of the battle we'ren. i want to lye you with one message today it's this -- the majorit americans support you. and by also will. since president truman's recognition of israel, david bengurian, america stands with israel. we must not let thex-dreamism in so-called elite corners conceal the deep abiding love for israel american -- among the

>> d their hearts to you. with my constituents, families, veterans, seniors and students alike and the rea love is no mystery to me. i was raised in upstateew york. i attended an all-day girls school next to a synagogue. i attended a childhood family friends and welcomed into many homes for dner and i've celebrated with my friends the birth of their babies, and namings and my love and respect for the jewish people eopl of the israel is lifelong and deep. i've been to israel many times before a member of congress. as a harvard graduate i went to study polic with a fellowship on defense of democracies and

i'm pleased t i've been many times since. cgress in may of rning as a last year to help lead an intellig delegation meeting with prime minister netanyahu. during eachnd every visit to israel, i am reminded of the fundamental fact that our peoples share an enduring bond, forged centuries. both jefferson and lincoln called america in■ one way or another, the last best hope on earth. when i come here to jerusalem, i share-- i sense a shared one embedded in your national anthem. the hope. israel is indeed a racl an outpost of freedom, of western values, of civilization, a striking example of human potential and the physical embodiment of the maximum. if you will it, i dream. it's the same founding ethos that we prize in america, t

american dream, which says that lues, you can build a life for yourself, your family, and commity. hertel's dream and the american dream, these dreust cherish, protect and fight for we know we have difficult days ahead to ensure this aay true. prime minister netanyahu recently said if israel must stand alone, it will. here to duty as americans that israel does not stand alone. we must never let israel stand alone. i am confident in the end that our relationship will not just endure, temerge stronger than ever before. israel, keep fighting. we are with you. god bless isr the united states of america, thank you for this tremendous honor.

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