[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 449 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 449

 Condemning in the strongest possible terms President of Iran Mahmoud 
    Ahmadinejad's statements regarding the State of Israel and the 
Holocaust and calling for all member States of the United Nations to do 
                               the same.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 12, 2008

 Mr. Smith (for himself, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Baucus, Mr. 
  Coleman, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Brownback, Mr. Lieberman, Mrs. 
 Dole, and Mr. Martinez) submitted the following resolution; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Condemning in the strongest possible terms President of Iran Mahmoud 
    Ahmadinejad's statements regarding the State of Israel and the 
Holocaust and calling for all member States of the United Nations to do 
                               the same.

Whereas President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated on October 26, 2005, that 
        ``The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world 
        oppressor against the Islamic world'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on October 26, 2005, that ``Anybody who 
        recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on October 26, 2005, that ``There is no 
        doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful 
        blot from the face of the Islamic world'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on October 26, 2005, ``Is it possible for 
        us to witness a world without America and Zionism? But you should know 
        that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on October 26, 2005, that ``The skirmishes 
        in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of 
        hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land. As the 
        Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on December 14, 2005, that ``They have 
        invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, 
        religions and the prophets'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on December 14, 2005, that ``If you have 
        burned the Jews, why don't you give a piece of Europe, the United 
        States, Canada or Alaska to Israel. Our question is, if you have 
        committed this huge crime, why should the innocent nation of Palestine 
        pay for this crime?'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on February 11, 2006, that ``The real 
        Holocaust is what is happening in Palestine where the Zionists avail 
        themselves of the fairy tale of Holocaust as blackmail and justification 
        for killing children and women and making innocent people homeless'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on February 11, 2006, that ``We ask the 
        West to remove what they created sixty years ago and if they do not 
        listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other 
        nations will eventually do this for them'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on February 11, 2006, ``Remove Israel 
        before it is too late and save yourself from the fury of regional 
        nations'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on April 15, 2006, that ``Whether you like 
        it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The 
        Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one 
        storm'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on April 24, 2006, that ``We say that this 
        fake regime cannot logically continue to live'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on May 11, 2006, that ``The West claims 
        that more than six million Jews were killed in World War II and to 
        compensate for that they established and support Israel. If it is true 
        that the Jews were killed in Europe, why should Israel be established in 
        the East, in Palestine?'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on December 12, 2006, that ``Thanks to 
        people's wishes and God's will the trend for the existence of the 
        Zionist regime is downwards and this is what God has promised and what 
        all nations want ... Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today 
        does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on June 3, 2007, that ``With God's help, 
        the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been 
        pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine ... By 
        God's will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near 
        future'';
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on September 12, 2007, that ``We do not 
        accept or officially recognize Israel. They are occupiers and 
        illegitimate''; and
Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on January 30, 2008, ``I advise you to 
        abandon the filthy Zionist entity which has reached the end of the line. 
        It has lost its reason to be and will sooner or later fall'': Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) condemns in the strongest possible terms President of 
        Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hateful and anti-Semitic statements 
        regarding the State of Israel and the Holocaust; and
            (2) calls on all member States of the United Nations to 
        publicly condemn President Ahmadinejad's statements as a 
        violation of the principles of both the United Nations Charter 
        and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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