I am for peace. I really am. I am not--I don't think of myself as someone in favor of Israel over the Palestinians.
This is not simply a case of Russian aggression.
Matter of fact, Chris Smith was there observing that election and gave that election a very big plus.
This all began... when an elected President of Ukraine... was forced out of office by street violence.
But I would hope that, as we go through the testimony today, that we get to the heart of the matter.
The only thing that stands today between peace in the Middle East, as far as I can see--and I will be anxious to hear your reaction to this-...
We should not be jumping into it. We should not be borrowing... to give it to Ukraine.
We are spending $400 million a year subsidizing the Palestinians over decades while they are being intransigent the whole time.
So do we have preferential payback then? Does that mean that all the other bills that the Ukrainian Government owes, they are going to have ...
We did have a legitimate election before and the elected President was removed after we had major street violence.
That is miniscule compared to major production.