[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Pages 23971-23972]
[From the U.S. 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 
pseudosophis-
ticates said it was merely oratory. A few months ago, the leadership of 
Syria threatened to destroy the Prime Minister of Lebanon, and the 
pseudoso-
phisticates and the appeasers thought

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it was only oratory. Yesterday 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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