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Duncan Hunter: Israel Shouldn't Give an Inch
If he becomes president, Rep. Duncan Hunter says he will continue to hold the position that Israel should surrender "not one inch" of disputed territory to the Arabs in exchange for pledges of peace.
Addressing a Christian Zionist meeting in Alexandria, Va., Sunday evening, the California Republican recalled a visit with his father to the Golan Heights, where they viewed a narrow valley where a small number of Israeli tanks had held off more than 1,400 Soviet-built Syrian tanks during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Hunter, a Vietnam veteran and former chairman and current ranking minority member of the House Armed Services Committee, said he had vowed then that he would always support what he called that "postage stamp of a country."
He and other speakers at the event spoke about the dangers they said were posed to Israel and the United States by Islamic terrorists and by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's pursuit of nuclear capability.
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Christian and Jewish supporters of Israel attending the meeting heard criticism both of Democratic lawmakers' push to withdraw troops from Iraq and President Bush's policy of supporting the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Sunday's program, entitled a Night to Honor Israel, was sponsored by The Jerusalem Connection International under the auspices of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), an organization founded last year by San Antonio, Texas, pastor John Hagee. CUFI will host a national summit in Washington D.C., in July, with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich among those scheduled to speak.
Hunter is one of 10 Republicans vying for their party's 2008 presidential nomination. Seven of the 10, Hunter among them, are currently polling in the low single digits.
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