[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3914]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           WEST BANK MURDERS

  (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to call attention to the horrific 
murders that took place in Israel this past weekend. Late Friday night 
during the Jewish Sabbath, Palestinian terrorists murdered five members 
of a family, including two young children and an infant, by stabbing 
them to death in their beds while they slept in their village in the 
northern West Bank.
  This grisly murder, that young children can be killed along with 
their parents for merely living in a place they are not wanted. The 
world community must stand together in rejecting such violence and 
state unequivocally that negotiations are the only acceptable way 
forward to resolve this conflict.
  We must also reject the notion that the West Bank must be rid of all 
Israelis--Judenfrei, where have we heard that before?--before peace can 
be had in the Middle East. Palestinian leaders have perpetuated this 
dangerous myth while Israelis, by contrast, have embraced their Arab 
neighbors as complete and equal citizens since 1948.
  Mr. Speaker, the Palestinians must not be allowed to cleanse the West 
Bank of all Jewish life before they will accept a peace agreement with 
Israel. The world community must call on them to condemn these horrific 
attacks and immediately return to the negotiating table, which they 
have avoided for far too long.

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