Roger Wicker: “we stand here today having had the opportunity in a joint session of Congress to hear one of the most powerful and…”

“we stand here today having had the opportunity in a joint session of Congress to hear one of the most powerful and profound and significant addresses that has ever been made to a joint session of Congress. We have a few people listening in right now. I notice we have a number of our pages on the floor. I am glad that our young people--our rising seniors in high school who work for us--were able to be there and to be here in Washington, in this Capitol, and see and listen to this magnificent speech today by Binyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the State of Israel--our steadfast ally, the only democracy in that section of the world. And, I will say, I doubt if we will very often see remarks that were as powerful and as important. Israel has been our steadfast ally for over seven decades. It was a Democratic President, Harry Truman, postwar, who put his administration behind the recognition of the Jewish State in Palestine as Israel, and we became one of the earliest countries to recognize Israel. That has stood for over seven decades. The recognition by the United States, on a bipartisan basis, has recognized an important fact: that the Jewish people are certainly not colonialists in the Holy Land. The place where Israel exists now is the place where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and Esau were born and lived in the era of 5,000 years ago. To say that the Jewish people are colonialists in Israel is the Big Lie.…”