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# Tuesday, April 1, 2003 (202) 225-7721 

**REP. CRANE INTRODUCES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING ATTACKS ON 38 U.S.
CITIZENS BY PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS**

***Resolution Also Calls On Palestinian Authority to Work with Israel in
Protecting All Citizens in the Region***

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Representative Phil Crane (R-IL) last week
introduced a House resolution condemning the attacks on at least 38
United States citizens killed by Palestinian terrorists in Israel since
the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
renounced violence as part of the peace initiative. The resolution also
calls on the Palestinian Authority to work with Israel to protect all
innocent individuals regardless of citizenship, from terrorist
atrocities.

The introduction of Crane's House Concurrent Resolution 119 (H. Con.
Res. 19) coincided with one introduced by Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA)
calling for an investigation into the death of Rachel Corrie, a U.S.
citizen killed while protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes by
the Israeli Defense Force.

[Text of H. Con. Res. 119]{.underline}:

*Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),* That
Congress\--

> \(1\) condemns the attacks on United States citizens by Palestinian
> terrorists and demands that the Palestinian Authority work with Israel
> to protect all innocent individuals, regardless of citizenship, from
> terrorist atrocities; and
>
> \(2\) offers its condolences to the families and loved ones of United
> States citizens who were killed by Palestinian terrorist attacks.

H. Con. Res. 119 is co-sponsored by Reps. Tom Lantos (D-CA), Gary
Ackerman (D-NY), Eric Cantor (R-VA), Mike Pence (R-IN), Joe Hoeffel
(D-PA), Doug Ose (R-CA) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ). It has been referred to
the House International Relations Committee for action.

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(A complete text of H. Con. Res. 119 is attached.)

H.CON.RES.119

**Condemning attacks on United States citizens by Palestinian
terrorists, and for other purposes. (Introduced in House)**

HCON 119 IH

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

**H. CON. RES. 119**

Condemning attacks on United States citizens by Palestinian terrorists,
and for other purposes.

**IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES**

March 26, 2003

Mr. CRANE (for himself, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. PENCE,
Mr. HOEFFEL, Mr. OSE, and Mr. CROWLEY) submitted the following
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on
International Relations

**CONCURRENT RESOLUTION**

Condemning attacks on United States citizens by Palestinian terrorists,
and for other purposes.

Whereas since Yasser Arafat renounced violence in the Oslo Peace Accords
on September 13, 1993, at least 38 United States citizens, including one
unborn child, have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists;

Whereas on December 1, 1993, in a drive-by shooting north of Jerusalem,
Hamas killed United States citizen Yitzhak Weinstock, 19, whose family
came from Los Angeles;

Whereas on October 9, 1994, Hamas kidnapped and murdered United States
citizen Nachshon Wachsman, 19, whose family came from New York City;

Whereas on April 9, 1995, an Islamic Jihad bomb attack on a bus near
Kfar Darom killed United States citizen Alisa Flatow, 20, from West
Orange, New Jersey;

Whereas on August 21, 1995, in a Hamas bus bombing in Jerusalem, United
States citizen Joan Davenny, from New Haven, Connecticut, was killed;

Whereas on September 9, 1995, Mara Frey of Chicago was stabbed in
Ma\'ale Michmash resulting in her unborn child\'s death;

Whereas on February 25, 1996, three United States citizens, Sara Duker
of Teaneck, New Jersey, Matthew Eisenfeld of West Hartford, Connecticut,
and Ira Weinstein of New York City, were killed in a Hamas bus bombing
in Jerusalem;

Whereas on May 13, 1996, United States citizen David Boim, 17, of New
York City, was killed in a drive-by shooting near Beit El, north of
Jerusalem;

Whereas on June 9, 1996, United States citizen Yaron Ungar was killed in
a drive by-shooting near Beit Shemesh;

Whereas on July 30, 1997, United States citizen Leah Stern of Passaic,
New Jersey, was killed in a Hamas bombing in Jerusalem\'s Mahane Yehuda
market;

Whereas on September 4, 1997, a Hamas bombing on Ben-Yehuda Street,
Jerusalem, killed Yael Botwin, 14, of Los Angeles;

Whereas on April 19, 1998, an attack near the Israeli town of Maon
killed United States citizen Dov Dribben, 28;

Whereas on October 8, 2000, Rabbi Hillel Lieberman, 36, of New York
City, was stabbed and killed near Nablus;

Whereas on October 30, 2000, United States citizen Esh-Kodesh Gilmore,
25, was shot in Jerusalem;

Whereas on December 31, 2000, Rabbi Binyamin Kahane, 34, and his wife,
Talia Hertzlich Kahane, both formerly of New York City, were killed in a
drive-by shooting near Ofra;

Whereas on May 9, 2001, Jacob \`Koby\' Mandell, 13, of Silver Spring,
Maryland, was killed in an attack near Tekoah;

Whereas on May 29, 2001, Sarah Blaustein, 53, of Lawrence, New York, was
killed in a drive-by shooting near Efrat;

Whereas on August 9, 2001, two United States citizens, Judith L.
Greenbaum, 31, and Malka Roth, 15, were killed in the Jerusalem Sbarro
pizzeria bombing;

Whereas on November 4, 2001, Shoshana Ben-Yishai, 16, of New York City,
was shot and killed during an attack on a Jerusalem bus;

Whereas on January 15, 2002, Avraham Boaz, 72, of New York City, was
killed in a shooting near Bethlehem;

Whereas on January 18, 2002, United States citizen Aaron Elis, 32, was
killed in a shooting in Hadera;

Whereas on February 15, 2002, United States citizen Lee Akunis, was shot
and killed near Ramallah;

Whereas on February 16, 2002, Keren Shatsky, 14, of New York City and
Maine, and Rachel Thaler, 16, of Baltimore, Maryland, were killed in a
bombing in Karnei Shomron;

Whereas on February 25, 2002, United States citizen Moran Amit, 25, was
stabbed and killed in Abu Tor Peace Forest, Jerusalem;

Whereas on March 24, 2002, Esther Kleinman, 23, formerly of Chicago, was
shot and killed near Ofra;

Whereas on March 27, 2002, United States citizen Hannah Rogen, 90, was
killed in a bombing at a hotel Passover seder in Netanya;

Whereas on June 18, 2002, Moshe Gottlieb, 70, of Los Angeles, was killed
in a bus bombing in Jerusalem;

Whereas on June 19, 2002, United States citizen Gila Sara Kessler, 19,
was killed in a bombing at a Jerusalem bus stop;

Whereas on July 31, 2002, five United States citizens were killed in a
bombing of a Hebrew University cafeteria: Marla Bennett, 24, of San
Diego, Benjamin Blutstein, 25, of Susquehanna Township, Pennsylvania,
Janis Ruth Coulter, 36, of Massachusetts, David Gritz, 24, of Peru,
Massachusetts (and of dual French-United States citizenship), and Dina
Carter, 37, of North Carolina;

Whereas on March 5, 2003, Abigail Leitel, 14, who was born in Lebanon,
New Hampshire, died in a bus bombing in Haifa;

Whereas at least another 74 United States citizens have been injured in
Palestinian terrorist attacks; and

Whereas the official Palestinian Authority television broadcast on March
14, 2003, of a live sermon calling for the destruction of the United
States and Israel was a blatant attempt to incite violence against
United States and Israeli citizens: Now, therefore, be it

> *Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),*
> That Congress\--
>
> \(1\) condemns the attacks on United States citizens by Palestinian
> terrorists and demands that the Palestinian Authority work with Israel
> to protect all innocent individuals, regardless of citizenship, from
> terrorist atrocities; and
>
> \(2\) offers its condolences to the families and loved ones of United
> States citizens who were killed by Palestinian terrorist attacks.