[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13995-13996]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  NEWS FOR THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Madam Speaker, as we speak now, in my hometown of New 
York, United Nations leaders from all over the world are coming in. The 
major issue is the Palestinian claim they're going to go to the United 
Nations to have a declared state of their own.
  I have news for the Palestinian leadership. The only way they can 
have a state of their own is to sit down face-to-face with Israel in 
face-to-face negotiations and hammer out an agreement, an agreement 
which is the two-state solution, an Israeli Jewish state and a 
Palestinian Arab state.
  The Palestinians cannot try to impose any kind of solution that 
doesn't work. If two adversaries want to hash out a disagreement to 
come to an agreement, then they need face-to-face negotiation. This has 
happened in the past. Each time Israel has accepted it, and the 
Palestinians have said no.

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  The United Nations should not discredit itself even more and continue 
to be the usual kangaroo court against Israel. I'm glad that the United 
States and the President are standing up and saying that we will veto a 
resolution if it comes before the Security Council.

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