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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 849 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 849

     Reaffirming the State of Israel's right to exist, condemning 
 antisemitism in all forms, and rejecting false equivalencies between 
                democracies and terrorist organizations.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 7, 2023

Mr. Buck submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION

 
     Reaffirming the State of Israel's right to exist, condemning 
 antisemitism in all forms, and rejecting false equivalencies between 
                democracies and terrorist organizations.

Whereas the United States has been a friend to the State of Israel since its 
        inception in 1948;
Whereas Israel has been a friend and ally to the United States in the Middle 
        East, especially in the Global War on Terror;
Whereas the Jewish State was formed from necessity after millennia of pogroms, 
        persecutions, and a Holocaust;
Whereas Members of this body have trafficked antisemitic tropes, created and 
        propagated false narratives, and expressed false equivalencies between 
        the Israeli Government and the terrorists attacking them;
Whereas Hamas attacked the sovereign country of Israel on October 7, 2023, 
        slaughtering innocent civilians, including women and children;
Whereas Hamas captured hundreds of civilians in the October 7 attack, including 
        United States civilians, and seeks to use those hostages as human 
        shields in their war with the Israeli military; and
Whereas antisemitic hate crimes have increased since October 7: Now, therefore, 
        be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) reaffirms the right of Israel to exist and defend her 
        citizens against terrorist organizations and their state 
        backers;
            (2) condemns the violence perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 
        and rejects the notion that such violence can be justified by 
        political concerns;
            (3) rejects any moral equivalence between the Israeli 
        Government and the Hamas regime that starves its citizens, 
        abuses its population, and uses them as human shields;
            (4) demands the safe return of all hostages taken by Hamas 
        in the October 7 atrocity;
            (5) rejects the false narrative that Israeli forces 
        targeted Al-Ahli Arab Hospital on October 17, 2023;
            (6) rejects the false narrative that United States security 
        assistance to Israel in any way contributed to the October 7 
        atrocities;
            (7) condemns the phrase ``from the river to the sea, 
        Palestine will be free'' as an expression of support for 
        genocide, murder, and ethnic cleansing; and
            (8) rejects the idea that phrasing centering on the 
        destruction and violent expulsion of Jews from their ancestral 
        homeland is anything other than ethnic cleansing.
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