[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13655-13656]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  U.S. OBJECTION TO PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD IN THE U.N.--A HOLLOW, LONE 
                            VOICE OF REASON

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Palestinians are going to the 
United Nations to seek some type of recognition as a state, but this 
decision should

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only be decided with direct negotiations with Israel and Palestine. The 
Palestinians have rejected this proper process for peace and go instead 
to the anti-Israel U.N. for recognition.
  Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.N., said: ``If there 
was a U.N. resolution whose first clause was anti-Israel and whose 
second clause was that the Earth was flat, the U.N. would pass it.''
  The U.S. has come to this issue late, and even though it will object 
to the Palestinian statehood through the U.N., in recent years, the 
United States has given mixed signals about its support for Israel. 
That is unfortunate. Israel is our most loyal friend and ally in the 
Middle East.
  The U.S. objection to the Palestinian statehood in the U.N. will be a 
hollow, lone voice of reason. It will show once again that the U.S. has 
little leadership in the United Nations. However, the U.N. will 
reaffirm its position of bigotry against all things Israel even if it 
means proclaiming the Earth is flat.
  This is yet another reason to cut U.S. aid to the U.N. We don't need 
to pay the U.N. to hate Israel. They will do it for free.
  And that's just the way it is.

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