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Chris Smith: So the resolution wisely reaffirms this law and urges the administration to consider suspending assistance to the P.A.…

On the recordJuly 6, 2011
So the resolution wisely reaffirms this law and urges the administration to consider suspending assistance to the P.A. pending a review of the unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas. It is our policy, and it is Israel's policy, Madam Speaker, to promote a realistic, sustainable peace process, one that entails negotiations between the two parties to the conflict, represented by groups that seek a two-state solution, and renounces violence. Hamas has shown none of that.
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Chris Smith
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Jul 6, 2011

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