Steve Rothman: “It breaks my heart, breaks the Israeli's people's heart. It would break any person's heart who has any shred of decency…”

“It breaks my heart, breaks the Israeli's people's heart. It would break any person's heart who has any shred of decency that the Palestinian leadership has turned down statehood for themselves and their people since 1947, offered it in 1947, 1967, and 2000. Does not it break my colleague's heart, that they condemn their own men, women and children to live in statelessness because they do not want to live next to the Jewish state recognized by the U.N., albeit the tiny little Jewish state in a sea of Arab Nations, Muslim Nations and Persian Nations? Breaks my heart and so we plead for the Palestinians to get themselves a leadership that will, as Egypt did and as Jordan did, say they will live in peace with the Israelis for good, as their neighbor and they will have their own state and peace, accept as their own state that has been offered since 1947, as we say take yes for an answer. The Palestinians will never drive America's best friend Israel, will never drive the Jewish state into the sea, never.”