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Anthony Weiner: “And then the question has to be raised, as much good intention as Secretary of State Rice and the administration may…”

On the recordSeptember 6, 2007
And then the question has to be raised, as much good intention as Secretary of State Rice and the administration may have here, having sit-downs and negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas and trying to present him with aid and trying to make his government or the idea that his thoughts or actions would be better for the Palestinian people, does that bring us one inch closer to stopping the attacks on Sderot? Does it do anything to truly enforce the idea that Gaza is under control? And the people voted for them. And by the way, this notion that they just carried, this is not like an electoral college map, they just carried Gaza, they have broad support throughout the West Bank as well.
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Anthony Weiner
New York

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Discussing U.S. foreign policy and its impact on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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