Eliot Engel

President Abbas presents a mixed bag at best. And he is responsible, ultimately, for all of the atrocities that have been outlined this morning.

I have no regard for Abbas and what he has done, but what about the potential of the collapse of the PA?

The disgusting spectacle of paying terrorists for crimes, for murders, calling them martyrs is something that really, really irks all of us.

We all know that the Palestinian Authority has not lived up to its promises, and we are talking about their incitement against Israelis and Jews.

Just look in Gaza, where Hamas has tightened its grip over the last decade. And let's remember that Hamas is a terrorist organization.

The Palestinians' refusal to recognize Israel as a state for the Jewish people with equal rights for all its citizens is one of the main reasons there is no Palestinian state today.

If the Palestinians want peace, they certainly haven't demonstrated it, in my opinion, at all.

The U.N. is a farce. Israel cannot get a fair hearing at the U.N.

The only way to have peace and settle the Palestinian situation is face-to-face talks between Israelis and Palestinians.

The so-called BDS, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, movement--shameful and disgraceful, in my opinion--pushes Israel to make unilateral concessions outside direct negotiations with the Palestinians.

In my view, a two-state solution is the only way for Israel to remain both a Jewish state and a democracy.

I have repeatedly said to the Palestinians they will never achieve their state on the backs of terrorism--just plain and simple.

This culture of incitement must end. It is absolutely outrageous to pay cold-blooded killers and call them martyrs.

You cannot have incitement and expect to have peace.

The threats facing Israel and the challenges to reaching a two-state solution are growing every day.

I am happy to support the Women, Peace, and Security Act brought forward by Representatives Schakowsky and Noem.

I think we all know by now, it was a bad deal. And you cannot believe anything the North Korean regime says and does.

We need to ensure that we are not setting up road blocks to potential diplomatic opportunities that aren't in America's national security interest.

I cannot foresee any scenario in the near term in which we would have an interest in removing the countries currently on the list, particularly Iran and Syria.

I want to thank Ranking Member Engel and the bill's sponsors, Representatives Noem and Schakowsky, for their bipartisan leadership.

We cooperate on the space station. We cooperated on JCPOA to a great contribution to world peace, as far as I am concerned.

I worry about that. History, in the last 200 years of this republic, is strewn with people who made that miscalculation, pushed us too far.

Putin seems to be engaged in some kind of reestablishment of Russian hegemony in some kind of delusional czarist longing for some glorious past that really never existed, and that is very dangerous.

Boy, it would come as news to the Baltic republics that the Russians are peace-loving people who are just buzzing our ships in the Black Sea because we are too close to their littoral.

The world, unfortunately, to a considerable degree, has accepted this as a fait accompli.