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[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 23 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 23

  Declaring that it is the policy of the United States to support and 
  facilitate Israel in maintaining defensible borders and that it is 
  contrary to United States policy and national security to have the 
borders of Israel return to the armistice lines that existed on June 4, 
                                 1967.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 9, 2011

    Mr. Hatch (for himself, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Nelson of 
 Nebraska, Mr. Johanns, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Moran, Mr. Toomey, Mr. Inhofe, 
  Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Burr, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Kyl, Mr. Lee, Mr. 
Thune, Mr. Portman, Mr. Coats, Mr. Coburn, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Boozman, Mr. 
 Blunt, Mr. Brown of Massachusetts, Mr. Vitter, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Enzi, 
 Mr. Isakson, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Lugar, and Mr. Chambliss) 
 submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

 
  Declaring that it is the policy of the United States to support and 
  facilitate Israel in maintaining defensible borders and that it is 
  contrary to United States policy and national security to have the 
borders of Israel return to the armistice lines that existed on June 4, 
                                 1967.

Whereas, throughout its short history, Israel, a liberal democratic ally of the 
        United States, has been repeatedly attacked by authoritarian regimes and 
        terrorist organizations that denied its right to exist;
Whereas the United States Government remains steadfastly committed to the 
        security of Israel, especially its ability to maintain secure, 
        recognized, and defensible borders;
Whereas the United States Government is resolutely bound to its policy of 
        preserving and strengthening the capability of Israel to deter enemies 
        and defend itself against any threat;
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (1967) recognized 
        Israel's ``right to live in peace within secure and recognized 
        boundaries free from threats or acts of force'';
Whereas the United States has long recognized that a return to the 1967 lines 
        would create a strategic military vulnerability for Israel and greatly 
        impede its sovereign right to defend its borders; and
Whereas Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu correctly stated on May 20, 
        2011, that the 1967 lines were not ``boundaries of peace. They are the 
        boundaries of repeated war'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That--
            (1) it is the policy of the United States to support and 
        facilitate Israel in creating and maintaining secure, 
        recognized, and defensible borders; and
            (2) it is contrary to United States policy and our national 
        security to have the borders of Israel return to the armistice 
        lines that existed on June 4, 1967.
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