[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10662]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 ISRAEL

  (Mr. POLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss H. Res. 268.
  America has not had a more pro-Israel President than President Obama. 
The President has unwaveringly supported Israel's right to self-
defense, fought to ensure Israel's military edge, protected her 
citizens with the Iron Dome anti-rocket system, and worked to prevent a 
nuclear-armed Iran. The President also understands, as we all do, that 
essential to Israel's security, America's security, and Palestinian 
security is a negotiated resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 
creating a lasting peace.
  The President's call for a negotiated resolution to the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict is a pro-Israel position that's absolutely 
essential to ensuring our ally's future as the democratic homeland of 
the Jewish people.
  We should also take an opportunity to be honest about what the 
President did and didn't propose. The President did not say that Israel 
should be forced to return to her 1967 borders. The President did say 
that the borders of Israel and a Palestinian state should be based on 
the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, a concept which has been 
considered a given in all the serious discussions of a two-state 
solution in the last decade.
  While fostering divisions serves the political interests of some, 
it's not in the long-term interest of Israel, Palestine, or the United 
States.

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