[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 84 (Friday, June 21, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H3781]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             ARAFAT MUST GO

  (Mr. GILMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, 31 innocent Israeli men, women, and children 
have been brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the past 3 
days, most recently a mother and her three children last night in their 
own home.
  Yesterday, many of us felt the pain personally when we learned that 
Michal Franklin, age 21, the niece of Israeli's Ambassador to South 
Africa, Tova Herzl, was one of the murdered on Wednesday in Jerusalem. 
My colleagues may recall that Ambassador Herzl served as congressional 
liaison here in Washington just a few years ago. We extend to Tova and 
her family our deepest condolences and condemn the barbaric and 
cowardly act.
  Permit me to quote from yesterday's Washington Post editorial, which 
states: ``It is easy to understand why many Israelis would support the 
latest military campaign. There have now been at least 71 suicide 
bombings in 20 months that have killed some 247 civilians and wounded 
thousands more as they rode buses, shopped, sat in cafes, danced in 
clubs, or celebrated religious holidays. No democratic country could be 
expected to tolerate such a sustained campaign of murder.''
  Mr. Speaker, that Washington Post editorial succinctly sums up the 
critical Middle East situation, underscores why Mr. Yasser Arafat must 
go, and why President Bush should not at this time announce American 
support for any provisional Palestinian state.

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