IV 
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 fol-
lowing 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 mur-
dered United States citizen Nachshon Wachsman, 19, 
whose family came from New York City;
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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 Jeru-
salem; 
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;
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Whereas on February 25, 2002, United States citizen Moran 
Amit, 25, was stabbed and killed in Abu Tor Peace For-
est, 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 Ange-
les, 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 citizen-
ship), 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 broad-
cast 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
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress—
(1) condemns the attacks on United States citi-
zens 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.
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