[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 31 (Friday, March 18, 1994)]
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            THE ONE-SIDED U.N. RESOLUTION DIVIDING JERUSALEM

  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, I wanted to talk about the U.N. Resolution 
that is coming before us today just for 1 minute, and that is, as we 
all know, for more than 2,000 years Jerusalem has been the focal point 
of Jewish religious devotion.
  Yet, in a matter of hours, the U.N. Security Council may begin the 
process of turning back the clock, dividing the Holy City, returning it 
to the days when Arabs barred Jews from entering and praying at the 
holy sites.
  The massacre in Hebron was a terrible massacre. It has been condemned 
by the Israeli Government and everybody else.
  When the PLO, parts of the PLO, and other Arab terrorists massacred 
Jews, and over 33 have been killed since the signing of the agreement 
at the White House, there has been silence.
  This U.N. Resolution is one-sided, and this U.N. resolution does not 
take cognizance of the fact that under Israeli rule in Jerusalem, the 
holy sites have been available to everybody, all the religions; 
whereas, when the Arabs controlled Jerusalem, no Jew could go to his or 
her holy site.
  I am very disappointed that the administration will not veto this 
resolution. It is the kind of one-sided resolution that we though this 
administration would oppose, and yet it is going forward. It is one-
sided in that it does not mention the slaying of Jews by Arab 
terrorists which has been going on for much longer, and it is one-sided 
in that it calls Jerusalem occupied territory.
  Shame on the administration. Shame on the United Nations for not 
opposing this resolution.

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