[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 79 (Tuesday, May 15, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3958]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               JERUSALEM: THE RIGHTFUL CAPITAL OF ISRAEL

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, for over 3,000 years, the official 
capital of Israel has been Jerusalem, no matter what the Palestinians 
say.
  Yesterday, the United States officially moved its embassy to 
Jerusalem, but the terrorist group Hamas and Iran object to Jerusalem 
being designated as the capital of Israel. So do the arrogant French 
and a few other European and Middle Eastern countries.
  But every nation decides for themselves where their capital should 
be, and wouldn't France be indignant if the world community demanded 
that Versailles be the capital of France rather than Paris?
  The anti-Semitic capital uproar is just another example of how these 
nations do not believe Israel has the right to exist. Israel's 
government is located in Jerusalem. Our new embassy recognizes that 
fact.
  Thanks to President Trump's bold leadership, the United States will 
no longer deny Israel's self-determined right to have Jerusalem as its 
political, cultural, and spiritual center of the Jewish state--whether 
the rest of the world likes it or not.
  And that is just the way it is.

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