Republican Leaders Issue Letter To President Obama

Today Speaker of the House Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, and Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp, R-Littleton, issued the following letter to President Barack Obama in reaction to his latest comments that Israel should return to its pre-1967 borders.
The full text of the letter is available below:

May 20, 2011

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20015

Mr. President:

We write to express our dismay and strong disapproval of your radical change in policy toward the nation of Israel as expressed in your speech of May 19.

The elected Senators and Representatives of General Assembly of the State of Colorado recently spoke in one voice in passing the enclosed Senate Joint Resolution 11-027, which expresses the strong support for the state of Israel by citizens of all faiths and political parties in Colorado. This Resolution was cosponsored by Democrat and Republican leaders in both chambers of the legislature and adopted by unanimous vote on March 18.

This Resolution concludes with the statement, we “Recognize that Israel has an undeniable right to defend itself against any threat to its security, as does every nation.” Your assertion that Israel should return to its pre-1967 borders as part of a peace treaty with the PLA and neighboring Arab states is a repudiation of this undeniable principle of self-defense because, in the opinion of all independent observers, it would leave Israel with indefensible borders.

Mr. President, we urge you to reconsider your extremely unwise and unprecedented intervention against the vital security interests of our friend and ally.

Sincerely,

Frank McNulty
Speaker of the House

Mike Kopp
Senate Minority Leader