Peter Deutsch: “I think in the environment we are at we won when we entered the Chamber and I think it is important, and I hope there is…”

“I think in the environment we are at we won when we entered the Chamber and I think it is important, and I hope there is a discourse because clearly a number of our colleagues, again less than around 10 percent or so, articulated a position which I am just disappointed, and I think it is by lack of information, it is a lack of thought, lack of really thinking through the actual conditions of what occurred. We would not talk about moral equivalency with the United States war in Afghanistan, and the similarity parallels are very real in terms of what the Israelis are doing, and as we both have said, there should be a Yasser Arafat exemption to the war on terrorism? I would like to follow up though, and really, the issue of the day is should the Israelis continue to negotiate with Yasser Arafat? Is he the negotiating partner to try to get to the resolution of the conflict, and as the gentleman said, not only did the Israelis seize a huge amount of sophisticated weapons in their incursions and suicide belts and other things, but a huge amount of documents, which at this point in time no one is refuting the authenticity.”