Eliot Engel actually said...

"I am for a two-state solution. The way they are going, to ever get peace in the Middle East is for both sides to sit down and negotiate across the table with no preconditions."

"It is preposterous that the Palestinians make every kind of demand on Israel as a precondition for even sitting down and talking."

"And I would remind the Palestinians that when that happened Israel accepted the partition and declared their state."

"We have a vital interest in ensuring that any reconciliation in which Hamas becomes part of the PLO does not happen."