Rep, Joshua Eilberg has introduced a Congressional resolution calling on the administration to support Israel’s border positions in the current Middle East negotiations. “Developments of the past week have raised serious questions,” the Pa. Democrat said, “about the commitment of this administration to the Israeli position in the talks.” Rogers’ statements of last week, he stated, “suggest that the administration may be compromising both Israel’s first opportunity for a real peace treaty as well as its capability to defend itself.” For Israel to accept the Rogers’ position, Eilberg continued, “would mean little more than a retreat to the pre-1967 positions which led to war.” The old boundaries and a peace-keeping force at Sharm el-Sheikh were insufficient to keep the peace in 1967, he said. “To think that such conditions would preserve the peace now is foolish and dangerous.” Eilberg’s legislation, a “sense of Congress” resolution, urges the President to take immediate steps to end the full support of the U.S. to Premier Goda Meir’s publicly stated positions on Mideast borders which she outlined last week in her address to the Knesset.
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