Anthony Weiner: “I would go even further than that. You do not need to go to Camp David at September of 2000. You can go to the Oslo…”

“I would go even further than that. You do not need to go to Camp David at September of 2000. You can go to the Oslo process that began in 1993 that had the Israeli government entering into an agreement to end the occupation, to not only begin to foster democracy in the Palestinian region but to fund it. Many of the guns being used against Israeli soldiers today were provided by the Israelis because the Palestinians said we need a police force. The Israelis not only gave them uniforms and gave them funding but gave them the actual guns. You can go back to 1948, the birth of the Jewish state, where it was the Israelis who were prepared to say, listen, we will take a divided neighborhood, essentially, if it guarantees us peace. You can look at the Wye River agreement. You can look at the Mitchell plan. You can look at the Tenet plan. You can look at plan after plan where it was the Israelis who said yes, and it was the Palestinians that said no. But they said no because the only thing that it really was predicated on was peaceful coexistence, which leads one to believe that ultimately the Palestinian people themselves have to make a decision. They have to make a decision, do they want to continue to cross swords or do they ultimately want their own state? I think the Members who are here on the floor would agree that if this was a peaceful struggle, it would have resulted in a Palestinian state generations ago.”