[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 137 (Friday, October 12, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H6705]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      PLEDGING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in the wake of disturbing 
reports. First, the Associated Press reported in newspapers around 
America yesterday that the State Department is preparing to pressure 
our friends in Israel to make territorial concessions including 
yielding part of Jerusalem to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
  This morning in Israel there are reports that 2 weeks prior to the 
attacks on the United States of America there was an agreement signed 
by the State Department and the administration of Saudi Arabia to do 
just that, pressing Israel back to its pre-1967 borders.
  Mr. Speaker, I stand today to urge the administration and the State 
Department to clarify the unqualified support of the United States of 
America for Jerusalem as the inviolate and eternal capital of Israel; 
and that the United States of America, Christians and Jews and all of 
Americans stand for the territorial integrity of Israel and so should 
this Congress.

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