[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 139 (Thursday, October 27, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H9281-H9282]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  DENOUNCING THE PRESIDENT OF IRAN'S STATEMENT THAT ``ISRAEL MUST BE 
                          WIPED OFF THE MAP''

  (Mr. LANTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANTOS. Madam Speaker, three generation ago Adolf Hitler 
threatened to destroy the Jewish people, and the appeasers and the 
pseudosophisticates said it was merely oratory. A few months ago, the 
leadership of Syria threatened to destroy the Prime Minister of 
Lebanon, and the pseudosophisticates and the appeasers thought it was 
only oratory. Yesterday

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the President of Iran announced that it is his policy to destroy the 
State of Israel, and the pseudosophisticates and the appeasers again 
say this is only oratory.
  But of course, it is more than that. I call on the United Nations, 
and all civilized nations, to take appropriate action, in the U.N. and 
individually, denouncing this outrageous statement. There is no room 
for the President of a nation to call for the destruction of a member 
state of the United Nations, the sole democracy in the Middle East and 
a close ally of the United States.

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