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BREAKING NEWS: Rashida Tlaib Delivers Passionate Call For Ceasefire And Defense Against Censure
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11/7/2023
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) spoke against the motion to censure her, and called for a ceasefire in Israel to protect Palestinian civilians.
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I'm the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, Mr. Chair, and my perspective
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is needed here now more than ever.
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I will not be silenced, and I will not let you distort my words.
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Folks forget I'm from the city of Detroit, the most beautiful blackest city in the country
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where I learned to speak truth to power even if my voice shakes.
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Trying to bully or censor me won't work because this movement for a ceasefire is much bigger
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than one person.
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It's growing every single day.
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There are millions of people across our country who oppose Netanyahu's extremism and are done
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watching our government support collective punishment and the use of white phosphorus
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bombs that melt flesh to the bone.
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They are done watching our government, Mr. Chair, supporting cutting off food, water,
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electricity, and medical care to millions of people with nowhere to go.
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Like me, Mr. Chair, they don't believe the answer to war crimes is more war crimes.
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The refusal of Congress and the administration to acknowledge Palestinian lives is chipping
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away at my soul.
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Over 10,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Majority were children.
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But let me be clear.
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My criticism has always been of the Israeli government and Netanyahu's actions.
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It is important to separate people and governments, Mr. Chair.
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No government is beyond criticism.
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The idea that criticizing the government of Israel is anti-Semitic sets a very dangerous
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precedent and it's being used to silence diverse voices speaking up for human rights across
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our nation.
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Do you realize what it's like, Mr. Chair, for the people outside the chamber right now
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listening in agony to their own government dehumanizing them?
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To hear the President of the United States we helped elect dispute death tolls as we
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see video after video of dead children and parents under rubble.
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Mr. Chair, do you know what it's like to fear rising hate crimes, to know how Islamophobia
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and anti-Semitism makes us all less safe, and worry that your own child might suffer
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the horrors that six-year-old Wadiyat did in Illinois?
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I can't believe I have to say this, but Palestinian people are not disposable.
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We are human beings just like anyone else.
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My sissy, my grandmother, like all Palestinians, just wants to live her life with freedom and
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human dignity we all deserve.
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Speaking up to save lives, Mr. Chair, no matter faith, no matter ethnicity, should not be
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controversial in this chamber.
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The cries of the Palestinian and Israeli children sound no different to me.
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Why?
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What I don't understand is why the cries of Palestinians sound different to you all.
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We cannot lose our shared humanity, Mr. Chair.
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I hear the voices of advocates in Israel, in Palestine, across America, and around the
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world for peace.
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I am inspired by the courageous survivors in Israel who have lost loved ones, yet are
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calling for a ceasefire and the end to violence.
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I am grateful to the people in the streets for the peace movement, with countless Jewish
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Americans across the country standing up and lovingly saying, "Not in our name."
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We will continue to call for a ceasefire, Mr. Chair, for the immediate delivery of critical
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humanitarian aid to Gaza, for the release of all hostages and those arbitrarily detained,
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and for every American to come home.
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We will continue to work for a real, lasting peace that upholds human rights and dignity
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of all people, and centers in peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, and censures
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no one, and ensures that no person, no child, has to suffer or live in fear of violence.
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Seventy-one percent of Michigan Democrats support a ceasefire.
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So you can try to censure me, but you can't silence their voices.
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I urge my colleagues to join with the majority of Americans and support a ceasefire now to
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save as many lives as possible.
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President Biden must listen to and represent all of us, not just some of us.
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I urge the President to have the courage to call for a ceasefire and the end of killings.
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Thank you, and I yield.
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(Applause.)
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THE PRESIDENT: The gentlelady yields back.
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A gentleman from Maryland Reserves.
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(Applause.)
04:39
Gentleman from Maryland Reserves.
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