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| Our Congressman Mcnulty supports Occupation |
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| yunus |
| 07/19/02 at 12:23:08 |
| This is what Mr McNulty said about Israel and the occupation. Pleae call or write him and tell him how u feel about US support for Israel and the injustice occuring there at: O'Brien Federal Building, Room #827 Albany, New York 12207 (518) 465-0700 McNULTY CALLS ON ADMINISTRATION TO REAFFIRM SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL (ALBANY, NY) -- Congressman Michael R. McNulty today reiterated his strong support for the State of Israel and the people of Israel in their fight against terrorism and their continuing struggle for survival. "Now is the time for the United States to express its unqualified support for the only democracy in the Middle East, and our most loyal supporter at the U.N." "I am deeply disappointed with the contradictory statements made by our President in recent weeks, and I totally disagree with our vote at the U.N. asking Israel to retreat from its pursuit of Palestinian terrorists. For the President to embrace such a policy is completely contradictory to the principles of our own international war against terrorism," McNulty said. In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended partitioning the British mandate called Palestine into two states, a 5,500 square-mile Jewish state, and a 4,500 square-mile Arab state, and a "corpus separatum" international zone around the holy city of Jerusalem. Jews accepted the partition plan but the Arabs did not. Israel unilaterally declared its independence in May 1948, and the Arab states attacked the new state. Therefore, the Palestinians could have had their own state in 1947, but rejected it. In December of 2000, former Israeli Prime Minister Barak offered a peace agreement, which included not only further land transfers, but also nearly all that Chairman Arafat requested -- and Arafat and the Palestinians rejected that offer, too. In addition, the first three wars against Israel (1948, 1956, and 1967) all occurred when the West Bank was in Arab hands. On January 1, 1965, Fatah, the main branch of Arafat's organization, launched the first terrorist attack on Israel -- all within the 1967 borders. Last year, Faisal Husseini, a "moderate" within Arafat's leadership, offered the following response when asked whether the Palestinian goal is still the elimination of the State of Israel: "If you are asking me as a Pan-Arab nationalist what are the Palestinian borders... I will immediately reply, 'From the river Jordan to the Mediterranean sea.'" According to McNulty, arguing that 'returning' these lands would ensure peace is simply ignoring history. "Israeli citizens have lived with terrorism since the founding of their country in 1948, and have had to fight five wars just to survive," he added. "It is past time for all civilized countries to support the right of Israel to exist, and to denounce in unambiguous terms the terrorists who block the road toward peace in the region |
| 07/19/02 at 18:09:03 |
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