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House Dems Align With Bush On Gaza
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that leading House Democrats are currently drafting a non-binding congressional resolution to support Israel's Gaza incursion. The resolution, being drafted by the office of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA), will offer tacit support for Israel and look into conditions for peace without explicitly demanding a ceasefire. ...

House Dems Align With Bush On Gaza
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that leading House Democrats are currently drafting a non-binding congressional resolution to support Israel's Gaza incursion. The resolution, being drafted by the office of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA), will offer tacit support for Israel and look into conditions for peace without explicitly demanding a ceasefire. ...

Dems plan pro-Israel resolution
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... Committee. "Certainly it would not demand a cease-fire," Hoyer said. "It would speak to the conditions that would justify a cease-fire. A cease-fire is not a just cease-fire when it's just Israel" holding fire. Israel launched its major operation Dec. 27 in a bid to end rocket attacks on its South. Such attacks, carried out by militants allied with Gaza's Hamas rulers, drastically intensified last month following the end of a six-month cease-fire between Hamas and Israel. Read more: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/06/1002014/dems-pla...

Obama Breaks Silence on Gaza
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Update: Meanwhile, Democratic leaders are working on a pro-Israel congressional resolution, about which they're being more forthcoming than Obama is about his thoughts. ...

Democrats ‘scrambling to push out’ pro-Israel resolution.
Think Progress — Just as Israel is indicating it conditionally welcomes an Egyptian-French cease-fire proposal, Democrats in Congress are “scrambling to push out” a “non-binding resolution supporting Israel’s goal” in the Gaza military operations: U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the U.S. House of Representatives majority leader, told JTA he was looking at such a resolution, which is being drafted in the office of Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “Certainly it would not demand a ...