[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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