[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 438 Engrossed in House (EH)]


H. Res. 438

                 In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

                                                      December 6, 2005.
Whereas the 60th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations is 
        currently underway in New York City;
Whereas the State of Israel is a critical strategic ally of the United States in 
        the Middle East and the only true democracy in the region;
Whereas 60 years ago the United Nations was founded, in part, to prevent another 
        Holocaust from ever happening again;
Whereas three years after its founding, the United Nations passed General 
        Assembly Resolution 181, which provided for the partition of Mandatory 
        Palestine and the establishment on its territory of an independent 
        Jewish state, which became the State of Israel;
Whereas in recent years, the General Assembly of the United Nations has engaged 
        in a pattern of approving resolutions that unfairly criticize and 
        condemn Israel;
Whereas during the 59th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 
        the General Assembly adopted 21 resolutions criticizing Israel;
Whereas despite the myriad of challenges facing the world community, the General 
        Assembly of the United Nations has devoted a vastly disproportionate 
        amount of time and resources to castigating Israel;
Whereas for the past 30 years, the United Nations has funded three entities that 
        support anti-Israel propaganda, including the Division for Palestinian 
        Rights, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the 
        Palestinian People, and the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli 
        Human Rights Practices Affecting the Palestinian People and Other Arabs 
        of the Occupied Territories;
Whereas the double standard against the State of Israel that is perpetrated at 
        the United Nations is pervasive: of ten emergency special sessions 
        called by the General Assembly of the United Nations, six have been 
        about Israel, and since 1997, at the annual meetings of the United 
        Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, only Israel has had its 
        own agenda item (Item 8) dealing with its alleged human rights 
        violations, whereas all other countries are dealt with in a separate 
        agenda item (Item 9); and
Whereas as a founding member of the United Nations, the United States has a 
        special responsibility to promote fair and equitable treatment of all 
        member states of the United Nations: Now, therefore be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives urges member states of the 
United Nations to--
            (1) stop supporting resolutions that unfairly castigate Israel; and
            (2) promote within the United Nations system a more balanced and 
        constructive approach to resolving conflict in the Middle East.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.