Peter Deutsch: “It is funny, not funny but tragic, that if it was a Martin Luther King instead of a Yasser Arafat or a Gandhi instead of…”

“It is funny, not funny but tragic, that if it was a Martin Luther King instead of a Yasser Arafat or a Gandhi instead of an Arafat, I think you are absolutely correct because the majority and even with the vote by the Likud Central Committee, which I think was a political statement, I as recently as today read polls of the Israeli public. The vast majority of Israelis support a two-state solution because they understand that is a solution, that there is a puzzle fit that works. That will happen at some point in time when there is a partner to engage in that solution. The chart that I have up now, one of the things, had we been in an Oxford debate and had the other side showed up, was really the first chart that I was going to put up for today, and it is hard to read and hopefully the television camera is focusing in on it. But the Israeli incursion occurred on March 31. Prior to March 31, as many of my colleagues remember, starting literally 11 days or 12 days or 13 days before, there was a series of suicide bombings actually starting in March: March 2, March 5, March 7, March 9, March 17, March 20, March 21. March 27 was the so-called Passover bombing in Netanya where 27 Israelis were killed; and then the 29th, and then actually on the 31st was in Haifa, the restaurant that the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Hoeffel) and I visited or, actually, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston) and I visited.”