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I come here this evening, however, to wholeheartedly support and endorse, and I ask my colleagues to support, the Goss amendment. In my opinion, the United States should not lift the travel ban to Cuba until several important conditions…
Mr. Chairman, I certainly agree with my colleagues that just like all of our families, we try not to spend more than we take in. I do not think, though, that for most Americans, given the fact that we are now going through a very…
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…
I think that is a wonderful document that demonstrates why for 55 years now, ever since 1947, the Palestinians still believe they will destroy Israel and not have to share this with Israel, but imagine if it was 55 years after the American…
I will not leave. Any nation that has said to Israel we are ready to make peace with you, Israel makes peace with them. Even a nation that attacks Israel and Israel defends itself, Israel gives back the lands. It happened to Egypt when…
the question is what should Israel be doing now. Israel is doing now what the United States is doing now: protecting its people from terrorists, and bringing justice to them or bringing them to justice, until these people either will say…
When the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutsch) mentioned that there were the equivalent of seven September 11's in Israel in the last 18 months, that is true, but it would be seven September 11's, not in a country as big as America, but in…
Today we celebrate two anniversaries, one a very happy one, and one a very, very sad one. The happy one first. Here is the nation of Israel, this orange little sliver on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Tiny little Israel. I know on…
that is when England said after World War I, we want to, just as we are giving Arabia to the Saud family and we are giving Jordan to the Hussein family and creating all these countries, we think there should be a Jewish homeland in this…
that is what we were just talking about, the 1947 partition plan that the Palestinians and the Arab world rejected when Israel would have been divided in half, half Palestinian, half Jewish, with Jerusalem as an international city. They…
by the way, the Sinai campaign refers to the fact that in 1967, the surrounding Arab nations went to war with Israel again.
it breaks our hearts for the Palestinian people that they have refused to elect leaders who will deliver them a Palestinian state.
To build on that last point, by the way, it is important to remember that while we were at war, the Cold War, but nonetheless a very dangerous war with the Soviet Union for 50 years, we are now friends with Russia. We had a terrible world…
America fought the Soviet Union for decades. We had thousands of nuclear missiles pointed at us for decades. We did not give up. We should not give up on our war against al Qaeda until we are certain that we have them on the run, until we…
But you know, my friends, I think it is time for a little history, and in 5 minutes I would like to give a little history lesson. I think it is important to know what the facts are. A lot of people think that the State of Israel is somehow…
The Israelis are outnumbered 39 to one, some extraordinary number like 325 million Arabs and close to 6 million Israelis, most of them Jews, some Christians, some Israeli Arabs, outnumbered 39 to one. There is no oil in tiny little Israel…
If I can offer my agreement, Yasser Arafat is a terrorist. He is no Boy Scout. But that does not mean that he cannot make peace and be a partner in peace if he chooses. The problem is, so far, since 1948, since Israel was recognized by the…
If I may, as far as I am concerned, the Palestinians need to take responsibility for choosing their own leaders. If they choose to call Yasser Arafat their leader, so be it. But that does not change what we as Americans must do. We must…
All is not lost. We should not lose hope. As heartbreaking as it is to see these terrible images on our television, and we wonder what is going to happen, some things take time. But we have to do them right. Sometimes our friends are put…
I just returned with some of my colleagues from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, from Ground Zero, at the World Trade Center in New York City. It was a terribly disturbing sight; almost incomprehensible, the magnitude of this…
today all Americans must pray with one voice; pray for those innocents killed in yesterday's cowardly attacks, for those families torn asunder by this evil, for those rescuers, police, fire, and health workers putting their lives at risk…
Mr. Chairman, I ask my colleagues who wish to support the Flake amendment, how did my colleagues just vote on the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act? Did they say, we do not need sanctions? Did they say, we do not need sanctions? No, they said, in…
I would also, however, like to point out that this new ferry hub project would provide an important transportation solution for the tri-state area, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, as well as in particular for Jersey City. It would…
Mr. Chairman, I wish to engage in a colloquy with our distinguished chairman, the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers), on the subject of Stewart Airport. Mr. Chairman, I thank you for joining in a colloquy with me and the distinguished…
As the Federal Aviation Administration looks at ways of reducing the stress on our overburdened regional air space, particularly the air space over northern New Jersey, I would also ask the committee to work with the FAA on examining the…
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