Howard Berman: “This is not a resolution to catalog all of the violations that have occurred by one party or another and to make an…”

“This is not a resolution to catalog all of the violations that have occurred by one party or another and to make an accurate statement of who has been wronged and who has not been wronged. It is not about the past, it is about the future. I say most respectfully, when I hear the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) say, I want to see a Palestinian state, my guess is, if asked, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Forbes), would say, I never want to see a Palestinian state. I think what the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) wants and what the gentleman from New York (Mr. Forbes) want or what I want is irrelevant. The parties agreed at Oslo to decide this most fundamental of issues: the negotiations over what kind of entity will be there in the final status talks and negotiations between the parties. It is not a U.S. decision, and it is not a Members of Congress decision. Mr. Speaker, all this resolution does is say, Congress opposes in every way it can such a fundamental and material breach of the Oslo process as the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state.”