[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.