[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15257-15258]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   EYES ON CAMP DAVID: LAND FOR PEACE

  (Mr. SHERWOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, our eyes are on Camp David, and the focus 
is on various details, 90 percent, 92 percent, this or that concession. 
And I think it is important for us to take a step back and to look at 
the entire panoply.
  The discussion is land for peace. This is the first time in recorded 
history when the land for peace equation has meant that the country 
that has won the wars has been asked to concede land.
  Mr. Speaker, never has there been such extraordinary love of peace as 
we see in the people of Israel, willing to make concessions after they 
have won

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four wars of defense. We should also note that half the Jewish 
population of Israel are themselves refugees from Arab states, from 
Yemen and Iran and from other Islamic countries. There is not even the 
slightest discussion that these Jewish refugees will receive any 
compensation. We must admire Israel's love of peace.

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