[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5837]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               JERUSALEM

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, we should not be doubling down on a 
failed Middle East policy by pressuring Israel to make further 
concessions, including on Jerusalem, Israel's undivided capital.
  Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel recently 
wrote:
  ``Jerusalem is above politics. It belongs to the Jewish people, and 
it is much more than a city. It is what binds one Jew to another in a 
way that remains hard to explain. Today, for the first time in history, 
Jews, Christians and Muslims all may freely worship at their shrines. 
And, contrary to certain media reports, Jews, Christians and Muslims 
are allowed to build their homes anywhere in the city. The anguish over 
Jerusalem is not about real estate but about memory.''
  What is the solution, Mr. Speaker? Well, certainly not more pressure 
on our friend and our trusted ally Israel, while not holding others 
accountable for their actions.

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