[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 96 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 96

   Condemning Palestinian incitement of violence and reaffirming the 
           special bond between Israel and the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 19, 2015

  Mr. Woodall (for himself, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Posey, Mr. McCaul, Mr. 
 Sessions, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. Cook, 
Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Tom Price of Georgia, Mr. Collins of New 
York, and Mr. Newhouse) submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
   Condemning Palestinian incitement of violence and reaffirming the 
           special bond between Israel and the United States.

Whereas the recent wave of violence in Israel is a direct result of incitement 
        by radical Islamist elements under the false pretext of an impending 
        change in the status quo on the Temple Mount;
Whereas Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has repeatedly reiterated that 
        Israel has no intention of changing the status quo on the Temple Mount;
Whereas the intention of Palestinian incitement is to provoke violence and the 
        murder of Jews;
Whereas Palestinian terrorist attacks are part of the Palestinian Authority's 
        strategy of ``popular resistance'' that was formally adopted by the 
        Palestinian Authority and Fatah at the Sixth Fatah conference in August 
        2009;
Whereas Palestinian violence is driven by anti-Jewish incitement and 
        delegitimization of Israel's right to exist;
Whereas Israel's Magen David Adom reports that between October 1, 2015, and 
        October 31, 2015, 11 Israelis were killed and 146 wounded;
Whereas between October 1, 2015, and October 31, 2015, 66 terrorist attacks were 
        carried out against Israeli citizens in Israel;
Whereas in the month of October 2015, Palestinian terrorist attacks have 
        occurred in Jerusalem, Kiryat Gat, Afula, Tel Aviv, Gan Shmuel, 
        Ra'Anana, and the West Bank, and include--

    (1) an attack on October 31, 2015, when a 17-year-old Palestinian 
terrorist attempted to stab Israel Defense Forces soldiers near the Gilboa 
crossing;

    (2) an attack on October 30, 2015, when 2 Palestinian terrorists 
attempted to stab Israeli border police officers near the Tapuach Junction;

    (3) an attack on October 30, 2015, when an Israeli was stabbed by a 
Palestinian terrorist near the French Hill light rail station in Jerusalem;

    (4) an attack on October 29, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist stabbed 
an Israel Defense Forces soldier near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron;

    (5) an attack on October 29, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist 
attempted to stab an Israel Defense Forces soldier in the neighborhood of 
Beit Hadassah;

    (6) an attack on October 29, 2015, when shots were fired from a passing 
vehicle towards a bus stop near Jerusalem;

    (7) an attack on October 28, 2015, when an Israeli woman was stabbed by 
a Palestinian terrorist outside of the Rami Levy supermarket near Gush 
Etzion;

    (8) an attack on October 28, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist 
attempted to stab an Israel Defense Forces soldier near the Tomb of the 
Patriarchs in Hebron;

    (9) an attack on October 27, 2015, when 2 Palestinian terrorists 
stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier near Gush Etzion;

    (10) an attempted attack on October 27, 2015, when 2 Palestinian 
terrorists aged 17 and 16 were apprehended with a knife and an axe in 
Jerusalem;

    (11) an attack on October 26, 2015, when an Israel Defense Forces 
soldier was stabbed by 2 Palestinian terrorists near Gush Etzion;

    (12) an attack on October 26, 2015, when an Israel Defense Forces 
soldier was stabbed and seriously wounded near Hebron;

    (13) an attack on October 26, 2015, when a Palestinian assailant 
attempted to stab an Israel Defense Forces soldier outside of the Tomb of 
the Patriarchs in Hebron;

    (14) an attack on October 25, 2015, when an Israeli man was wounded in 
a stabbing attack after his car was stoned by Palestinian assailants near 
Metzad;

    (15) an attack on October 25, 2015, when a 17-year-old female 
Palestinian assailant attempted to stab an Israel Defense Forces soldier 
near Hebron;

    (16) an attack on October 25, 2015, when an Israeli man was stabbed 
while waiting for a ride near Ariel;

    (17) an attack on October 24, 2015, when a 16-year-old Palestinian 
posing as a candy vendor attempted to stab a security guard near the Gilboa 
crossing;

    (18) an attack on October 23, 2015, when an Israel Defense Forces 
soldier was stabbed in Gush Etzion;

    (19) an attack on October 23, 2015, when an Israeli couple and their 
three young children were wounded when a firebomb was thrown at their car 
near Beit El;

    (20) an attempted attack on October 22, 2015, when a student was 
stabbed and moderately injured while waiting for the bus in Bet Shemesh;

    (21) an attack on October 22, 2015, when 2 Palestinian terrorists 
attempted to board an Israeli school bus to carry out a knife attack in Bet 
Shemesh;

    (22) an attack on October 21, 2015, when a 15-year-old Palestinian 
assailant attempted to attack security Forces with a knife in Yitzhar;

    (23) an attack on October 21, 2015, when an Israeli policeman was 
injured in a car-ramming attack in Ofra;

    (24) an attempted attack on October 21, 2015, when an Israel Defense 
Forces soldier was critically wounded in a stabbing attack near at the Adam 
Junction near Jerusalem;

    (25) an attack on October 21, 2015, when 2 Palestinians were 
apprehended by Israeli security forces who found homemade explosive devices 
in their vehicle;

    (26) an attack on October 21, 2015, when five Israel Defense Forces 
soldiers were injured after their vehicle was stoned, and, after exiting 
the vehicle in order to apprehend the stone-throwers, were rammed by a 
vehicle near Beit Ummar;

    (27) an attack on October 20, 2015, when an Israeli man was killed 
after his vehicle was stoned, and, after escaping the vehicle, was struck 
and run over in a vehicular attack;

    (28) an attack on October 20, 2015, when an Israeli Defense Forces 
soldier was injured in a stabbing attack in Hebron;

    (29) an attack on October 20, 2015, when 2 Israelis were wounded in a 
vehicular attack and attempted stabbing at a bus stop at the Gush Etzion 
Junction;

    (30) an attack on October 18, 2015, when an Israeli Defense Forces 
soldier was killed and 10 civilians and police officers wounded when a 
Palestinian terrorist entered the Central Bus Station of Be'er Sheva and 
opened fire;

    (31) an attack on October 18, 2015, when an Eritrean asylum seeker was 
shot and killed by security forces after being mistaken for a Palestinian 
terrorist during the attack on the Be'er Sheva Central Bus Station;

    (32) an attack on October 17, 2015, when a 16-year-old Palestinian 
assailant attempted to stab Israeli Border Police officers in Jerusalem;

    (33) an attack on October 17, 2015, when a Palestinian attempted to 
stab an Israeli civilian in Hebron;

    (34) an attack on October 17, 2015, when a 16-year-old Palestinian 
woman stabbed an Israeli Border Police officer in Hebron;

    (35) an attack on October 17, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist 
stabbed an Israeli Defense Forces soldier at a police checkpoint in Hebron;

    (36) an attack on October 17, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist 
attempted to stab an Israeli police officer and bomb squad officer at the 
Kalandiya Checkpoint near Jerusalem;

    (37) an attack on October 16, 2015, when Palestinian rioters set fire 
to Joseph's Tomb, a Jewish Holy site in Nablus;

    (38) an attempted attack on October 16, 2015, when Israeli Border 
Police detected an explosive device at a checkpoint near Hebrew 
University's Campus at Mount Scopus in Jerusalem;

    (39) an attack on October 16, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist 
disguised as a photojournalist stabbed an Israeli Defense Forces soldier 
near Hebron;

    (40) an attempted attack on October 14, 2015, when Israeli Border 
Police discovered a knife hidden under the assailant's seat in Jerusalem;

    (41) an attack on October 14, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist 
stabbed 2 people by the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem;

    (42) an attack on October 14, 2015, when an Israeli woman was stabbed 
by a Palestinian terrorist while waiting for a bus near the Central Bus 
Station in Jerusalem;

    (43) an attack on October 13, 2015, when an Israeli man was stabbed in 
the center of Ra'Anana;

    (44) an attack on October 13, 2015, when four Israelis were wounded in 
a stabbing attack in Ra'Anana;

    (45) an attack on October 13, 2015, when 2 Israelis were killed and 15 
wounded when 2 Palestinian terrorists boarded a bus and began to attack 
passengers in Jerusalem;

    (46) an attack on October 13, 2015, when an Israeli man was killed and 
five wounded by a Palestinian in a vehicle attack in Jerusalem;

    (47) an attempted attack on October 12, 2015, when a stabbing attack 
was foiled outside of the Lion's Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem;

    (48) an attack on October 12, 2015, when an Israeli Border Police 
officer was stabbed by a 16-year-old Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem;

    (49) an attack on October 12, 2015, when 2 Palestinian terrorists 
stabbed 2 Israeli civilians, including a 13-year-old Israeli boy riding his 
bicycle, in Jerusalem;

    (50) an attack on October 12, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist 
stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier on a bus in Jerusalem;

    (51) an attack on October 11, 2015, when an Israeli police officer was 
injured when the driver of the car he pulled over set off an explosive 
device in Maaleh Adumim;

    (52) an attack on October 10, 2015, when a 16- year-old Palestinian 
terrorist stabbed 2 Israelis near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of 
Jerusalem;

    (53) an attack on October 10, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist 
stabbed 2 Israeli police officers near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of 
Jerusalem;

    (54) an attack on October 9, 2015, when a 16-year-old Israeli boy was 
stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem;

    (55) an attack on October 9, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist stabbed 
a police officer in Kiryat Arba;

    (56) an attack on October 9, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist 
attempted to stab an Israeli security guard at the Central Bus Station of 
Afula;

    (57) an attack on October 8, 2015, when an Israeli Defense Forces 
soldier and three others were stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist in Tel 
Aviv;

    (58) an attack on October 8, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist stabbed 
an Israeli civilian near the light rail in Jerusalem;

    (59) an attack on October 8, 2015, when a man was stabbed and seriously 
wounded by a Palestinian terrorist in Kiryat Arba;

    (60) an attack on October 8, 2015, when an Israeli Defense Forces 
soldier was wounded in a stabbing attack in Afula;

    (61) an attack on October 7, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist wounded 
an Israeli man in a knife attack in Petach Tikva;

    (62) an attack on October 7, 2015, when an 18-year-old Palestinian 
terrorist stabbed an Israeli man near the Lion's Gate of the Old City of 
Jerusalem;

    (63) an attack on October 7, 2015, when a Palestinian terrorist stabbed 
an Israeli Defense Forces soldier in Kiryat Gat;

    (64) an attack on October 4, 2015, when a 15-year-old Israeli boy was 
stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem;

    (65) an attack on October 3, 2015, when 2 Israelis were stabbed to 
death and 2 injured by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem; and

    (66) an attack on October 1, 2015, when 2 Israelis traveling with their 
four children were killed in a drive-by shooting near Nabulus;

Whereas the Government of Israel meets acts of Jewish Israeli terrorism with a 
        firm action and clear condemnation;
Whereas the Palestinian Government praises Palestinian terrorists as heroes to 
        be commended and emulated;
Whereas the policy of the Government of Israel to keep holy sites of all 
        religions open for all to peacefully worship;
Whereas Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on July 30, 2013, 
        that ``In a final resolution, [the Palestinian Authority] would not see 
        the presence of a single Israeli'' in the state of Palestine;
Whereas Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas stated on a September 16, 
        2015, television broadcast that ``We welcome every drop of blood spilled 
        in Jerusalem. This is pure blood, clean blood, blood on its way to 
        Allah. With the help of Allah, every martyr will be in heaven, and every 
        wounded will get his reward'';
Whereas the Palestinian Authority-appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh 
        Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, attempted to discredit and eliminate Israeli 
        claims to the Temple Mount by erroneously stating on an October 25, 
        2015, television broadcast that ``the Al-Aqsa Mosque was an Islamic 
        mosque since the world was created . . . it was never anything other 
        than a mosque'';
Whereas, on October 14, 2015, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas 
        falsely accused the Government of Israel of executing a Palestinian boy, 
        who is alive and recovering in an Israeli hospital after he stabbed an 
        innocent Israeli citizen and was hit by an automobile, thus continuing 
        to incite violence against innocent Israelis;
Whereas, on September 30, 2015, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas 
        said during a speech to the United Nations that the Palestinian 
        Authority is no longer bound to the 1995 Oslo Accords which established 
        the 2-state solution for peace;
Whereas in June 2013, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas referenced 
        Israeli acts which ``indicate an evil and dangerous plot to destroy Al-
        Aqsa and build the alleged temple'';
Whereas this month, a Palestinian family chose to name their newborn baby 
        ``Knife of Jerusalem'' in order to show solidarity with young 
        Palestinians involved in terrorist attacks against Israelis;
Whereas in a November 2014 address commemorating the 10th anniversary of Yasser 
        Arafat's death, President Abbas said that as Israel has no claim to 
        Jerusalem, he will not allow the Temple Mount to be ``contaminated by 
        Jews'', and threatened that Jewish prayer at the site would cause a 
        ``devastating religious war'';
Whereas Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on October 19, 2015, following 
        an attack by Israeli civilians on a wrongfully suspected terrorist that 
        Israel is ``a country of law'' and that ``no one will take the law into 
        his own hands'';
Whereas Israelis and Palestinians alike have the right to live in safety and 
        dignity;
Whereas Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alternatively stated during an October 
        1, 2015, speech to the United Nations General Assembly that ``I am 
        prepared to immediately resume direct peace negotiations with the 
        Palestinian Authority without any preconditions whatsoever''; and
Whereas Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has not responded in kind: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that the United States--
            (1) condemns each and every one of these acts of violence 
        against Israeli citizens in the strongest of terms;
            (2) believes that any chance at lasting peace can only 
        happen through peaceful, bilateral, discussions and sound 
        consultation with peaceful allies, not calls for bloodshed;
            (3) expresses support for individuals and organizations 
        working to encourage cooperation between Israelis and 
        Palestinians and the many activists within Israel and Palestine 
        working to bring an end to the conflict;
            (4) calls on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas 
        and the international community to join us in condemning the 
        current wave of terrorism in Israel; and
            (5) reaffirms the friendship between Israel and the United 
        States.
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