[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 71 (Monday, May 23, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H3324]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                     EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, I am about to file a bill, its number will 
be determined later, but it expresses support for the State of Israel's 
right to defend Israeli sovereignty, to protect the lives and safety of 
the Israeli people, and to use all means necessary to confront and 
eliminate nuclear threats posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, 
including the use of military force if no other peaceable solution can 
be found within a reasonable time to protect against such immediate and 
existential threats to the State of Israel.
  We have a President who doesn't know history as well as he should or 
he would be aware that last Thursday, instead of saying what his 
spokesman was saying, gee, this was the starting point for all 
negotiations, actually, the facts are that the Clinton administration 
pushed Prime Minister Barak into basically that proposal. And it's my 
belief that just as I believe that God hardened the heart of Pharaoh 
when Moses made his request, he hardened Arafat's heart. He rejected 
the offer, and it does not need to be made again.

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