Published January 25, 2024
Sens and John Fetterman have not signed on to the resolution calling for a Palestinian state
Senate Democrats have put forward a measure that endorses the creation of a Palestinian state backed by every member of their conference — with two notable exceptions.
The proposed amendment to a pending national security supplemental package reaffirms that the U.S. supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and “that such a solution must ensure the state of Israel’s survival as a secure, democratic and Jewish state, and fulfill the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people for a state of their own.”
“The U.S. government has long supported a two-state solution as a path to a just and lasting peace in the region, and our amendment reaffirms our continued commitment to that vision,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who sponsored the amendment.
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Senate Democrats have put forward a measure that endorses the creation of a Palestinian state backed by every member of their conference — with two notable exceptions.
The proposed amendment to a pending national security supplemental package reaffirms that the U.S. supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and “that such a solution must ensure the state of Israel’s survival as a secure, democratic and Jewish state, and fulfill the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people for a state of their own.”
“The U.S. government has long supported a two-state solution as a path to a just and lasting peace in the region, and our amendment reaffirms our continued commitment to that vision,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who sponsored the amendment.
“The horrors of the war on and since October 7th have underscored the fundamental reality that in order for both Israelis and Palestinians to live in safety and with dignity, they need to have distinct, inalienable, and mutually-recognized states that coexist side-by-side in peace,” he said.
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SOURCE: www.foxnews.com
RELATED: Nearly all US Senate Democrats back two-state solution for Israel and Palestinians
Published January 25, 2024
An overwhelming majority of US President Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats in the Senate back a statement reiterating US support of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Forty-nine of the 51 members of the Senate Democratic caucus back an amendment supporting a negotiated solution to the conflict that results in Israeli and Palestinian states living side by side, ensuring Israel’s survival as a secure, democratic, Jewish state and fulfilling the Palestinians’ “legitimate aspirations” for a state of their own.
Senator Brian Schatz introduced the measure as an amendment to an upcoming bill that would provide national security aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
“What will determine the future of Israel and Palestine is whether or not there’s hope. And the two-state solution has to be that hope,” Schatz told a news conference.
The only two Democratic senators who did not sign onto the amendment were John Fetterman and Joe Manchin.
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SOURCE: www.timesofisrael.com
RELATED:Rabbi Shmuley: The ‘Two-State Solution’ is the ‘Final Solution’
Published January 25, 2024
If Israel, God forbid, ever falls, history will record it was not because it was defeated by a superpower like ancient Rome. Less so will history record that it fell due to some incurable illness like coronavirus.
No, history will record that it was self-inflicted, that Israel fell from the inside due to its people and its leaders being unable to resist external pressures brought to bear to concede more and more land and empower more and more of their enemies.
U.S. President Joe Biden deserves immense credit for having Israel’s back since October 7th. But lately, his and Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s increasing pressure on Israel for a two-state solution will irreversibly damage the state.
Never in history has one country experienced more self-inflicted wounds than the modern day State of Israel. Remember, it was not Czechoslovakia that gave itself away to Hitler at Munich in 1938. Indeed, its leaders weren’t even invited by France and Britain to parley with the German Führer. But Israel has now, three times, given up gigantic tracts of lands to its enemies, and the world is pressuring it to give more.
It’s time to say once and for all: No. No more land concessions. Not one millimeter. Not one inch.
Palestinian state? The original League of Nations Palestine Mandate was 80% Transjordan, given by Winston Churchill to the Hashemites as a reward for their support during World War I. That is the actual Palestinian state, and it has more than 3.5 million Palestinian citizens. If there is any occupation in the Middle East, it is King Abdullah II’s autocratic rule over millions of Palestinians. And notice, his wife Queen Rania, herself a Palestinian who hates Israel, has not taken in a single Palestinian refugee from Gaza. Not one baby. Not one little girl. Not one family. Not one senior citizen.
My father taught me to revere the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and indeed my father, of blessed memory, is buried just yards from Begin on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Begin would otherwise be revered as one of the great heroes of modern Jewish history, except for one thing. He gave away all Sinai – territory three times the size of Israel, with its enormous oil reserves – without knowing if Sadat and his regime, which guaranteed security, would even last. Sadat was assassinated three years later.
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SOURCE: www.breitbart.com
