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Reza Reviewer Madam President, members of the House,
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ladies and gentlemen, it falls to me to bring our case and this debate to a close.
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And unlike some on the other side, I will actually speak to the proposition.
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My colleagues have ably set out the long history of Zionist and then Israeli efforts to achieve peace with the Palestinians.
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The compromises proposed, the territorial concessions offered,
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and the repeated willingness of Israeli leaders and the Israeli public to take extraordinary risks in pursuit of that goal.
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Risks all too often paid for in Israeli blood.
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Our opponents, for their part, have offered a very different story.
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We've heard painful accounts of dispossession, and they are indeed painful, Dr. Carmi.
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We've heard selective readings of history and arguments that deny any genuine Jewish claim to the land that both peoples call home.
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We've heard contortions of logic and inversions of truth that seek to explain away every Israeli overture,
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every negotiation, every concession as something other than it appeared to be.
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And that brings us to the real question before this House tonight right.
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Because we're not being asked whether Israeli governments have fallen short in their efforts to bring about peace.
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Some have, while others, including those described earlier, have offered dramatic and far -reaching concessions to bring peace about.
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We're not being asked whether Israeli and Palestinian leaders have, at times, missed opportunities that might have brought peace closer.
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They have.
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We're not even being asked whether Palestinians and Israelis have suffered due to the absence of peace.
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They have.
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No, the motion before this house tonight is far more extreme.
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It posits that Israel never wanted peace with Palestine.
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Never.
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Never?
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Not Rabin, not Peres, not Barak,
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not Olmert, not the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who filled public squares in support of peace,
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not the millions who voted for leaders' promising territorial concessions, not the Israeli parents of every generation who,
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knowing all too well the cost of war, hoped and prayed and dreamed that their children would be the first to finally know peace?
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Never?
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Ladies and gentlemen, our opponents have spent this evening asking you to believe something striking.
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That when Israelis spoke of and prayed for peace, they didn't mean it.
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That when Zionists and Israeli leaders offered concessions for peace, they didn't mean it.
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That when millions of Israelis voted for peace, they didn't mean it either.
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This is not an argument about Israeli policy.
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This is an argument about Israeli motives, about the Israeli soul.
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And the difficulty for our opponents is that they've chosen the wrong people.
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Because there is no value more essential to the Jewish national soul than peace.
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The Jewish tradition is suffused with the quest for peace.
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It courses through our religious texts, animates our prayers and inspires our vision of a more perfect world.
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It was the prophet Isaiah who envisioned a future in which peace reigned among nations,
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uttering those immortal words, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
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Nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
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Every single day for two millennia, Jews have ended their daily prayers with supplications for peace.
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The Talmud goes so far as to say that shalom, peace, is one of God's names, elevating it from an earthly aspiration to the realm of the divine.
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It is no surprise then that when the earliest Zionist thinkers contemplated the Jewish state they sought to create, they envisioned it at peace.
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Socialists and liberals, revisionists and traditionalists, they differed profoundly in their visions of the state that was to be.
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Yet across those divisions ran a remarkably consistent belief
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that the Jewish national home should one day live at peace with its neighbors.
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That aspiration found perhaps its clearest expression in Israel's Declaration of Independence, issued as five Arab armies advanced upon the nascent state.
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Even in that moment of existential peril,
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Israel's founders proclaimed, We extend our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness,
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and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with a sovereign Jewish people settled in its land.
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And indeed, for generations of Israelis, that aspiration has been not merely a line and a founding document.
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It has been a sought -after reality, a national ideal, and a deeply personal hope.
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I'm a relic of the 1980s.
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The first word I learned on my first day of primary school in Jerusalem was, shalom, peace, an experience shared by all Israelis, including those in this room,
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on both sides of this debate.
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I remember watching wide -eyed as Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn, certain that a new era of peace was upon us.
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I remember standing in a massive crowd with my father
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and younger sister as we were swept towards the gate of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to pay our respects to Rabin, felled by an assassin's bullets in his pursuit of peace.
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I remember the wave of Hamas terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of hundreds of Israelis, Israelis, including two young girls from my neighborhood,
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one year my junior, killed in a Jerusalem pizzeria.
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And I remember how, even in the midst of that surge of murderous terror, even in the wake of a prime minister's assassination,
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Israelis pivoted not to the right, but to the left, electing a leader who had explicitly campaigned on a platform of territorial concessions for peace
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and granting Ehud Barak one of the largest margins of victory in Israeli history.
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But Israel never wanted peace?
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Never?
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Really?
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Ladies and gentlemen, that claim crumbles under the weight of documented history.
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One can argue that peace has proven elusive.
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One can argue that opportunities have been missed.
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One can argue that terrible mistakes have been made.
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One can even argue that today, after October 7th, the appetite for territorial concessions in the interest of peace is vastly diminished.
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But to argue that Israelis never wanted peace is not a serious reading of history.
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It is a denial of history.
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Indeed, it requires us to believe
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that millions of people across multiple generations did not truly mean what they said to one another,
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to their neighbors, and even to God himself about one of their most heartfelt aspirations.
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For if every expression of peace was merely a ruse, every offer a deception, every aspiration a lie,
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then we are left with a familiar accusation that what Jews said was never what Jews meant.
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But beneath much of what we've heard tonight lies an even darker and deeper argument.
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It is an argument that has animated not only some of the views expressed in this chamber, but too often the positions of Palestinian leaders throughout the conflict.
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It is not really about peace negotiations.
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It's not about diplomatic proposals.
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It's not really about Camp David or Oslo or Annapolis.
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It is about legitimacy.
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Because if one denies that the Jewish people have any genuine claim to the land, if one believes that Israel should never have come into being and should cease to exist today,
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then no Zionist or Israeli offer, no matter how sincere or expansive, can ever be enough.
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Peace becomes impossible because one side's very existence is regarded as an affront, an injustice, a blight to be erased.
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But that is not the motion before this house.
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You're being asked whether Israel has ever truly wanted peace with Palestine.
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And if millions of Israelis marched for peace, voted for peace, and were willing to take far -reaching and deeply painful risks for peace,
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then the answer to that question is self -evidently yes.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the tragedy of this conflict is not that peace has never been sought.
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The tragedy is that peace has been sought and yet proven so painfully difficult to attain.
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The tragedy is that two peoples with deep
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and abiding ties to the same land have so often found themselves unable to reconcile their competing aspirations.
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That is a tragedy, and it is one that we should all hope
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and pray come swiftly to an end for the sake of all who who live in that cherished land.
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But it is not evidence that peace was never desired.
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And it is certainly not evidence
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that an entire people spent generations engaged in an elaborate collective deception about one of their most deeply held hopes,
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one that goes to the very depths of their national soul.
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For all its mistakes, for all its failures, for all the opportunities lost along the way, Israel has wanted peace.
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Jewish tradition says so, history says so, the lived experience of generations of Israelis says so,
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and I hope this host will say so as well.
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I urge you to reject the motion.
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Thank you very much.
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