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"Like most Americans, I support
Israel. However, just like most
Americans, I do not support and will
not support all of Israel's policies.
Generations of Palestinians and Israelis
have suffered in the region, but the
violence of the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict cannot be examined or addressed
in isolation of decades of occupation
of millions of Palestinians.
"Israeli suffering is something that
this body understands and discusses.
But what of the suffering of the
Palestinian people? What of the histo-
ry of land confiscation, water rights,
torture, settlements, collective punish-
ments, home demolitions, curfews,
administrative detentions, expulsions,
child labor?
"Where is the language about the
1,000-plus Palestinians killed in the
last 19 months, bodies found under
rubble?
"Where is the language about the
thousands made homeless by the bull-
dozers in Jenin alone? Where is the lan-
guage about the relief agencies denied
access to treat the sick and wounded?
"We know that relief agencies,
including the International
Committee of the Red Cross, were
prevented from reaching and evacuat-
ing and treating the sick and wounded
throughout the West Bank and Gaza
Strip, resulting in untold deaths, from
the mother who bled to death from a
normally nonfatal wound in front of
her children, to the couple buried alive
under rubble for eight days.
"The stories coming to light are
horrific.
"Rarely on this floor is there discus-
sion of the nearly 420 Palestinian vil-
lages destroyed at the time of Israel's
founding in 1948, or the 3.8 million
refugees registered by the United
Nations or the estimated 2 million
others not registered.
"Palestinians live in 59 different rec-
ognized refugees camps in misery, in
poverty, with no hope of a better
future for the next generations that are
born into those camps.
"Can we know today what 38 per-
cent employment in the West Bank or
75 percent unemployment in Gaza
can do to a population?
"While we cling to the hope of peace
that Oslo would bring, Palestinians
saw a remarkable growth in settle-
ments. As of February, Peace Now esti-
mates the settlers' population at
230,000, having approximately dou-
bled in the last 10 years under Oslo.
"Mr. Speaker, this is not a good res-
olution. I encourage members to vote
against it."

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