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criminal court was seeking arrest warrants for israeli leaders. this is about 20 minutes. [applause] rep. stefanik: thank you. thank you, speaker of anna for your kind introduction and inviting me here today. mr. speaker, distinguished guests, and dear friends, i am profoundly h in the hallowed halls of your knesset. in your internal capital, theho. at this time of historic consequence for israel and the jewish people. today i stand before you not just aader in united states congress, but as a lifelong admirer, supporter and true friend of israel and the jewish people. i am lucky to 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 feels heightened and renewed. 226 we witnessed the most vicious brutal attackthe je holocaust. a barb tat claimed more than 1,200 innoctl. civilian women, children, and the eld were ripped from their homes and massacred. raped, beheaded. jewish families were bound together and burned. babies burned alive. atrocities of humanity. we must never forget never relent. israelis, americans and others were savagely kidnapped from their hbeaten and taken hostagee terrorist tunnels beneath gaza.y day that there are still over 120 souls held hostage.

226 days of captivity, including americans held by hamas terrorist ths.let me be very cl. we will not until the hostages are back home. th mind the many times forces of people have tried to destroy isr and the jewish people. since israel't day of existence, there have been those who thought out its destruction. raids in the 60's and 70's, the successivenst hamas in gaza, and again on that dark d october 7, 2023. what we ng tay is a story of the forces of good 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 a couple weeks ago, which i witnessed here these past few days. srael chooses life." murray is but let me go further. in choosing life, israel fulfills isaiah's prophecy to be a light unto fighting for its survival in future in one very tough neighbor.and i tt the people of israel know this, in the week after october 7, 360,000 israelis reported for military duty. flying home from around the world. that is the equivalent of 20 million americans. more americans than served in world war ii. manyf these courageous fighters are b in america. what a strike and comparison. young israelis heeding the call

of duty fighting fores, people d while the pro-hamas apologi on so-called elite campuses across america are in a car oxygen him of -- in a paroxysm of blood lust with signs saying final solution, chanting death to israel death to america. we know what it must but i want you to know something. those views, airtime by some radical limit that members of congress, do not reflect the views of the american people. the american people stand firmly behind you. we are seeing the majority in the body on which i served, the united states congress, fight back and turn the tide. let me repeat. america is firmly behind israel and the jewish people. this goes back to our nation's

founding. i's founding father george washington wrote a letter to the jews of newport, rhode island expressing america's founding in full. a devotion to religious pluralism. he wrote the united states would "gift to bigotry no sanction and persecution no assistance," he further wrote " may the children of the stock of abraham who dwell in thi continue to merit and enjoy the goodwill of the other iabitants, while everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and victory, and there shall be none to make him afraid, may the father of all mercy scatter light and not darkness in our path, and make us all in our several locations useful here, in his own due time and everlastingly happy." as long as they serve the american people, i will defend'f

religious pluralism and freedom. today this means crushing anti-semitism at home. and supplying th it, without co, to achieve total victory in the face of evil. forwt 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, but only starts with wiping those responsible for october 7 off the face of the earth. there can be no retrievable dignity for hbackers. when they chose rapehee of civie meat elation of infants as weapons of terrorism, they left noel turned up to this just waro this just war. when the genocidal zealots -- they removed any doubt as to their hideous intentions.

chance of deto america are not hollow slogans. they are a promise that what ha on october 7 it happened in the united states. unless hamas and its jihadist accomplices are eliminated. my country and all countries must say or truth in the face. this is not israel's fight alone, it is also our fight, the west's. in truth, total victory is about more than responding to one attack, it is about restoring a way of life, securing the jewish state, so that it no longer faces threats of annihilation from any actor, whether iran, hezbollah, hamas or anheand it'' high honor and responsibility to support israel's effort. i have been clear at home and i will be clear here. ere is no excuse for an american president to blockade tol. aid that was duly passed by the congress.

e toase sanctions on iran, phe leading state sponsor of terror, or to r friends fight for their lives. no excuse, full stop. that's why i am proud to have backed every measure to aid israel that has come before congress. ng one. that's whyi as a senior member of the intelligence committee have helped secure billions of dollars f dome, david slane, anti-tunneling technology, and further emerging technologies most recently in the suppmeid package passed just last month. 's why let calls for the white house to speak out against the corrupt icc. years, i have been a leadingar support for israeli independence and

seriincluding moving the u.s. embassy to its rightful place in jerusale the negotiation of the historic abraham accords. the greatest stride towards a quarter century. m adopting the strategy to align u. c with israel. a change that foster daily communicatio idf. joint exercises and crucial cona with british and arab partners that hel against the iranian attack. finally, president trump's wise decision to call out -- for what it a hive of anti-semitism. when the enemy isof the united , america must be the one to call it by its name, and destroy president trump under stood this. and we will return to that strategy soon.

you know as well as i that the enemy is inside more than just the gates of the united nations. it a powerful western institution to my country and nd where the viral virus of anti-semitism is spreading. this is why total victory is not just physica self-defense, but ideological self-defense. as chair of the house republicans conference, i'm d house republicans have passed bipartisan resolution in support ofsrl, called out anti-semitism in the halls of congress, and brought spe anti-semitic began to -- propaganda push paid for by foreign adversaries. passed the determined action to ensure foreign emies cannot poison the minds of american students. serve as a senior member of the education and workforce committee but i lead the arge to expose this moral rot of

anti-semitism, exposing t most elite higher education institutions. when we heard from jewish studenfaan staff about anti-semitic attacks on their campuses, i demanded congress post a public hearing to hold colleges accountable for their failure to protect jewish members of their community. i know you also that hearing. because the world saw that hearing. i want to take you into that moment. my question was the last question of the hearing. the most junior member of the committee reeled it -- yielded hoeven meaning 30 minutes. i had asked questions earlier with the president of harvard, now former president, and i was not getting directrs. in thinking through the last question, which was not ahead of time and thought to myself, how can

a straightforward moral weight to force them to answer that question was "does calling for the genocide of jews violate your university's code of conduct on bullying and harassment?" one after the other after the other answered "it on the context," and the world heard. let me tell you, it does not depend on the context. [appusand over the years, i havn at a lot of high-profile committee hearings, and i have never witnessed the moral depravity of witnesses like i did in that hearing. week, there were over one million views worldwide. it is now well into the billions. there is a reason it is the most viewed testimony in the history

of united states congress. th is because it exposed the moral rot at the highest levels of the so-called elite over cities -- universities. after the resignations, as i so many to go. that hearing set off an earthquake. sgraful attempts to contextualize genocide of jews decades of moral decay, intellectual laziness and da groupthink at so-called elite institutions across society. we have put colleges and universities on notice and expanded this investigation to ensure every jewish and student, faculty member and staff member is protected on campus. are looking at foreign donations to universities. e ewh students. the federal accreditation system. the alt viewpoint diversity and free speech, the anti-semitism inherent in "woke

" dei, the erosion in academic integrity, and the extent to u.e bankrolled the political americans. the days of unchecked anti-semitism, aracism must be . we wld t purveyors of the oldest hatred accountable. ementhis visit has renewed my sense of the stakes of the battle we are in. i want to leave you with one message today, it is this. the majority of americans support you and we always will. since president truman's recognition of israel 11 minutes after david ben-gurion declared israel's independence and 76 years in five days ago, america stands with israel. we must not extremism in so-called elite corners and the deep abi lr israel

among the american people. most americans feel a strong co they have opened their heights to you in the start our and i have seen it in conversations -- dark hour and i have seenons wig families, small business people, veterauden alike. the reason for this love is no mystery to me. i wasaised in upstate new york. i attended an all girls day school next door to a synagogue. i grew up attending [indiscernible] and have been welcomed in many homes for shabbat dinner. i celebrated with my friends the birth of their cldattending ba'd fi friend's wedding. or t people of israel is lifelong and deep. i have been to israel many times even before i was a member of congress. as hgraduate, i made my first trip to israel to study national security posy po.

and i am pleasetohaveeen many t. mostng aa number of congress in may of last year to help lanigen commie delegation meeting with prime minister netanyahu. during each and every visit to israel, i am reminded of the fundam that our people share a limit during bond,ed ov. both jefferson and lincoln called america, in one way or another, the last best hope on earth. when i come to jerusalem, i sense shared destiny. one embedded in your national anthem. hatikvah, "the hope." israel is a miracle, an outpost of freedomestern values, civilization, a striking example of human poten. physical embodie ll it, it is no

dream. it is theeco-at we prize in america. the american dream which say that with hard work, the right values, you can build a life for yourself, your family and community. these dreams are precious and we must cherish, protect and fight we know we have difficult days ahead tons always remains true. prime minister netanyahu recently■ said that if israel must stand alone, it will. here to tell you that it is our 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, but emerge stronger than ever before. israel, keep fighting. we are with god bless israel and god bless the united states of america.

thank you for this tremendous honor. [applaus federal deposit insurance corporation chair martin greenberg his plan to resign after reports of employe mistreatment and sexual-harassment athe fbi see came to light. he said he would remain in the position until a new successor is confirmed. a white house spokesperson confirmed that president biden will put forward a new nominee for chair. the announcement came after he testified st