[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3665]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            PATH TO CONFLICT

  (Mr. McCLINTOCK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my great concern over 
the recent statements by administration officials regarding Israeli 
housing construction in that nation's capital city. History warns us 
that appeasement of mutual enemies is the surest way to destroy 
alliances and to invite aggression. And yet the rhetoric of this 
administration is taking us down this dangerous road. Israel has every 
right to allow construction in its capital city and throughout the West 
Bank, over which it exercises rightful sovereignty.
  The administration seems to have forgotten that Jordan attacked 
Israel in 1967, not the other way around, and the result was the 
Israeli acquisition of this land. The Israelis haven't forgotten that, 
nor have they forgotten the folly of unilaterally giving up the Gaza 
Strip from which rockets are now routinely launched against Israeli 
citizens. Imagine the danger to Israel's capital by repeating that 
mistake in east Jerusalem.
  Mr. Speaker, appeasement all but guarantees an escalation of 
conflict.

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