[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 141 (Wednesday, September 21, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H6329]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD U.N. VOTE

  (Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey. Madam Speaker, the Jewish State of Israel 
is essential to America's national security. The Jewish State of Israel 
guards the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, and helps us with the oil and 
other activities in the Persian Gulf near Iran. Our relationship is 
mutually dependent, and so extremely important to both countries' vital 
national security.
  But what's happening this week at the U.N., the Palestinians are 
going to the U.N. to avoid negotiating a peace agreement with Israel. 
The Palestinians want the U.N. to do what they won't do, negotiate a 
peace agreement.
  Yet the Palestinians are made up of Hamas and Fatah. Hamas is a 
terrorist group with the blood of innocent Americans on their hands. 
Hamas' charter says they will never recognize Israel's right to exist.
  Fatah is coming to the U.N. through their President Abbas, even 
though President Obama and the Congress have said, Go negotiate peace 
with Israel. Why would the Palestinians do that to the United States' 
vital national security interests and America's best friend in the 
region, the Jewish State of Israel? Because they are refusing to make 
an agreement to live in peace with the Jewish State.
  The Congress has spoken. We will withdraw aid from the Palestinians, 
and the Palestinian people will suffer. The Palestinian leadership must 
withdraw from the U.N. and go to the negotiating table without pre-
conditions with the Jewish State of Israel.

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