[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9805]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 ISRAEL

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have listened to the leader's statements 
these past days on his trip to the Middle East. It is a fascinating 
place. I returned about a month ago myself. But the one thing that I 
always see in the Middle East is this tiny, little State of Israel, 
surrounded by these other countries that are about as undemocratic as a 
country could be.
  Israel is a democracy. Every day we hear about what is going on in 
the Middle East, we should realize that. Israel has risen above this. 
They maintain their democratic principles in spite of the violence that 
is going on, on a daily basis, in that part of the world.

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