Robert Wexler

He is right, and the U.N. needs to reflect the fact that countries in the world need to stop delegitimizing Israel and they need to recognize Israel's right to exist.

I just want to thank you and Chairperson Lehtinen and the ranking members for an especially thoughtful and well-run hearing.

At no time in history of Jewish Americans or Jews had the opportunity to live as well as we have as we have in this country.

Ideally, the answer to your question would be the Palestinian people should decide in a free and democratically held election.

I would make it clear that America essentially has two red lines in terms particularly as it relates to this issue, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

There has to be positive reinforcement as well. If you are going to do some good things, there has got to be some reward for it as well.

Palestinians and their leadership have defrauded their own people for decades, for generations.

The result wasn't that Hamas was curtailed in its activity. The result wasn't that the violent ones within the PA were somehow marginalized.

We should have our Embassy in Jerusalem. We should. But you know what? It should get there when we have a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

What we need to do, in my humble view, in terms of succession of President Abbas, is make sure that those Palestinian leaders who adhere to a policy of nonviolence, that adhere to a belief in a negotiated two-state outcome, we need to give…

There is a new sheriff in town, President Trump, and we have Republican leadership of the House and the Senate that is critical, to say the least, of the United Nations.

The truth is the U.N. is just a venue.

We should not impose solutions. That is not the role of the United States in terms of a friend and an ally.

The Israeli Knesset is considering a legalization bill that will set in process a troubling trend of outlying settlements being legalized.

I think it is a close call. It is a justified American position in my humble opinion, a justified law but as it plays out, at times, it is a bit insane.

The King of Jordan is a huge ally to us. Why make his life difficult in a way that doesn't achieve the type of result that ultimately we and Israel are looking for, which is a negotiated two-state outcome?

If I were President Trump, I would speak with the new Secretary-General and basically tell him I am all with you, I am with you 110 percent.

Any reference by anyone in that regard would be terribly unfortunate.

We need to assist the Palestinians and the Arab world with respect to their stubborn view of the right of return to move to a more helpful position.

You can empower that man who seems instinctively and substantively to share most if not all of your concerns or you can take the knees out from underneath him.

The creation of a demilitarized Palestinian State is not a gift to the Palestinians. It is a life preserver for a Jewish democratic State of Israel that is secure.

President Abbas deserves some credit... he said yes, but then he said, as a visitor.

Yes, the terminology of the resolution has its tremendous flaws, as was pointed out, but there were certain actions taken by both the Palestinians, which should be condemned.

Congress and the administration should work with Secretary General Guterres, who just this week clearly documented the Jewish connection to the land of Israel, to dismantle the anti-Israel U.N. infrastructure.