Graham Resolution Supporting Israel Passes Senate

I thank you Mister president this is a debate where it really doesn't matter who's speaking Republican

that there will be fifty minutes divided but really there is no division here Senate resolution

sixty five has ninety one co sponsors now that it's very difficult to do and the president senator Coons was an original %HESITATION

co sponsor of the legislation and what a Senate resolution sixty five all about it's about the follow on

March fourth twenty twelve president Obama state whenever an effort is made to delegitimize the state of Israel my

administration has opposed so there should not be a shred of doubt by now when the chips are down I

have Israel's back this resolution is in support of the present state when I heard that statement it was music to my ears because

the Iranian nuclear program the efforts of the Iranians to develop a nuclear capability marches

alone as I speak today may twenty second their two articles %HESITATION one in the social to press one and reporters talking

about I. E. a reports and diplomats saying that Iran is pressing for with the construction of a research reactor that

would add to their nuclear %HESITATION capability in terms of enriching uranium to make a bomb and

that they've increased the number of centrifuges since April dramatic so we have been trying to sanction or I very

successfully I might add senator Mendez %HESITATION my co sponsor here the original co sponsor will be here around four and

as to Bob Menendez there's no stronger supporter of the US Israeli relationship than than Bob who's chairman of the foreign relations committee so

we've worked on a resolution and the guts of this era resolution basically as follows it declares that the United States has a vital national interest and

and and under brake unbreakable commitment to ensuring the existence survival and security the state of Israel it

provide diplomatic military economics for in his defense of his territory people and existence and

the whole resolution is about Israel having to defend herself against a nuclear capable right so when our president said in

twenty toil that we have Israel's back that his administration has Israel's back this is a chance for the United States Senate to say we

also have Israel's back and from my point of view you can't separate the threat that the nuclear program in Iran %HESITATION

are %HESITATION %HESITATION creates %HESITATION from United States and Israel they're the same the same threat that

people wonder what will happen if that day ever come what what America did well this is a statement by every United States senator vote share not

an authorization to use force but a statement that if that day comes and Israel has to justifiably

defend itself from a break out by the Iranian regime %HESITATION to build a nuclear weapon which

is not on our side and as to the threat from Iran since nineteen eighty four they've been characterized as the most active