III 110th CONGRESS 2d Session S. RES. 449 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 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

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.