IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 96 
Condemning Palestinian incitement of violence and reaffirming the special 
bond between Israel and the United States. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 19, 2015 
Mr. WOODALL (for himself, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. POSEY, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. 
SESSIONS, Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. 
COOK, Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia, Mr. COL-
LINS of New York, and Mr. NEWHOUSE) submitted the following concur-
rent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Condemning Palestinian incitement of violence and reaffirm-
ing the special bond between Israel and the United 
States. 
Whereas the recent wave of violence in Israel is a direct re-
sult of incitement by radical Islamist elements under the 
false pretext of an impending change in the status quo 
on the Temple Mount; 
Whereas Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has re-
peatedly reiterated that Israel has no intention of chang-
ing the status quo on the Temple Mount; 
Whereas the intention of Palestinian incitement is to provoke 
violence and the murder of Jews; 
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Whereas Palestinian terrorist attacks are part of the Pales-
tinian Authority’s strategy of ‘‘popular resistance’’ that 
was formally adopted by the Palestinian Authority and 
Fatah at the Sixth Fatah conference in August 2009; 
Whereas Palestinian violence is driven by anti-Jewish incite-
ment and delegitimization of Israel’s right to exist; 
Whereas Israel’s Magen David Adom reports that between 
October 1, 2015, and October 31, 2015, 11 Israelis were 
killed and 146 wounded; 
Whereas between October 1, 2015, and October 31, 2015, 66 
terrorist attacks were carried out against Israeli citizens 
in Israel; 
Whereas in the month of October 2015, Palestinian terrorist 
attacks have occurred in Jerusalem, Kiryat Gat, Afula, 
Tel Aviv, Gan Shmuel, Ra’Anana, and the West Bank, 
and include— 
(1) an attack on October 31, 2015, when a 17-year- 
old Palestinian terrorist attempted to stab Israel Defense 
Forces soldiers near the Gilboa crossing; 
(2) an attack on October 30, 2015, when 2 Pales-
tinian terrorists attempted to stab Israeli border police 
officers near the Tapuach Junction; 
(3) an attack on October 30, 2015, when an Israeli 
was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist near the French 
Hill light rail station in Jerusalem; 
(4) an attack on October 29, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian terrorist stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier 
near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron; 
(5) an attack on October 29, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian terrorist attempted to stab an Israel Defense 
Forces soldier in the neighborhood of Beit Hadassah; 
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(6) an attack on October 29, 2015, when shots were 
fired from a passing vehicle towards a bus stop near Je-
rusalem; 
(7) an attack on October 28, 2015, when an Israeli 
woman was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist outside of 
the Rami Levy supermarket near Gush Etzion; 
(8) an attack on October 28, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian terrorist attempted to stab an Israel Defense 
Forces soldier near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in He-
bron; 
(9) an attack on October 27, 2015, when 2 Pales-
tinian terrorists stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier 
near Gush Etzion; 
(10) an attempted attack on October 27, 2015, 
when 2 Palestinian terrorists aged 17 and 16 were appre-
hended with a knife and an axe in Jerusalem; 
(11) an attack on October 26, 2015, when an Israel 
Defense Forces soldier was stabbed by 2 Palestinian ter-
rorists near Gush Etzion; 
(12) an attack on October 26, 2015, when an Israel 
Defense Forces soldier was stabbed and seriously wound-
ed near Hebron; 
(13) an attack on October 26, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian assailant attempted to stab an Israel Defense 
Forces soldier outside of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in 
Hebron; 
(14) an attack on October 25, 2015, when an Israeli 
man was wounded in a stabbing attack after his car was 
stoned by Palestinian assailants near Metzad; 
(15) an attack on October 25, 2015, when a 17- 
year-old female Palestinian assailant attempted to stab 
an Israel Defense Forces soldier near Hebron; 
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(16) an attack on October 25, 2015, when an Israeli 
man was stabbed while waiting for a ride near Ariel; 
(17) an attack on October 24, 2015, when a 16- 
year-old Palestinian posing as a candy vendor attempted 
to stab a security guard near the Gilboa crossing; 
(18) an attack on October 23, 2015, when an Israel 
Defense Forces soldier was stabbed in Gush Etzion; 
(19) an attack on October 23, 2015, when an Israeli 
couple and their three young children were wounded 
when a firebomb was thrown at their car near Beit El; 
(20) an attempted attack on October 22, 2015, 
when a student was stabbed and moderately injured while 
waiting for the bus in Bet Shemesh; 
(21) an attack on October 22, 2015, when 2 Pales-
tinian terrorists attempted to board an Israeli school bus 
to carry out a knife attack in Bet Shemesh; 
(22) an attack on October 21, 2015, when a 15- 
year-old Palestinian assailant attempted to attack secu-
rity Forces with a knife in Yitzhar; 
(23) an attack on October 21, 2015, when an Israeli 
policeman was injured in a car-ramming attack in Ofra; 
(24) an attempted attack on October 21, 2015, 
when an Israel Defense Forces soldier was critically 
wounded in a stabbing attack near at the Adam Junction 
near Jerusalem; 
(25) an attack on October 21, 2015, when 2 Pal-
estinians were apprehended by Israeli security forces who 
found homemade explosive devices in their vehicle; 
(26) an attack on October 21, 2015, when five Israel 
Defense Forces soldiers were injured after their vehicle 
was stoned, and, after exiting the vehicle in order to ap-
prehend the stone-throwers, were rammed by a vehicle 
near Beit Ummar; 
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(27) an attack on October 20, 2015, when an Israeli 
man was killed after his vehicle was stoned, and, after es-
caping the vehicle, was struck and run over in a vehicular 
attack; 
(28) an attack on October 20, 2015, when an Israeli 
Defense Forces soldier was injured in a stabbing attack 
in Hebron; 
(29) an attack on October 20, 2015, when 2 Israelis 
were wounded in a vehicular attack and attempted stab-
bing at a bus stop at the Gush Etzion Junction; 
(30) an attack on October 18, 2015, when an Israeli 
Defense Forces soldier was killed and 10 civilians and po-
lice officers wounded when a Palestinian terrorist entered 
the Central Bus Station of Be’er Sheva and opened fire; 
(31) an attack on October 18, 2015, when an Eri-
trean asylum seeker was shot and killed by security 
forces after being mistaken for a Palestinian terrorist 
during the attack on the Be’er Sheva Central Bus Sta-
tion; 
(32) an attack on October 17, 2015, when a 16- 
year-old Palestinian assailant attempted to stab Israeli 
Border Police officers in Jerusalem; 
(33) an attack on October 17, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian attempted to stab an Israeli civilian in Hebron; 
(34) an attack on October 17, 2015, when a 16- 
year-old Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli Border 
Police officer in Hebron; 
(35) an attack on October 17, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian terrorist stabbed an Israeli Defense Forces soldier 
at a police checkpoint in Hebron; 
(36) an attack on October 17, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian terrorist attempted to stab an Israeli police officer 
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and bomb squad officer at the Kalandiya Checkpoint 
near Jerusalem; 
(37) an attack on October 16, 2015, when Pales-
tinian rioters set fire to Joseph’s Tomb, a Jewish Holy 
site in Nablus; 
(38) an attempted attack on October 16, 2015, 
when Israeli Border Police detected an explosive device at 
a checkpoint near Hebrew University’s Campus at Mount 
Scopus in Jerusalem; 
(39) an attack on October 16, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian terrorist disguised as a photojournalist stabbed an 
Israeli Defense Forces soldier near Hebron; 
(40) an attempted attack on October 14, 2015, 
when Israeli Border Police discovered a knife hidden 
under the assailant’s seat in Jerusalem; 
(41) an attack on October 14, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian terrorist stabbed 2 people by the Damascus Gate 
in the Old City of Jerusalem; 
(42) an attack on October 14, 2015, when an Israeli 
woman was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist while wait-
ing for a bus near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem; 
(43) an attack on October 13, 2015, when an Israeli 
man was stabbed in the center of Ra’Anana; 
(44) an attack on October 13, 2015, when four 
Israelis were wounded in a stabbing attack in Ra’Anana; 
(45) an attack on October 13, 2015, when 2 Israelis 
were killed and 15 wounded when 2 Palestinian terrorists 
boarded a bus and began to attack passengers in Jeru-
salem; 
(46) an attack on October 13, 2015, when an Israeli 
man was killed and five wounded by a Palestinian in a 
vehicle attack in Jerusalem; 
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(47) an attempted attack on October 12, 2015, 
when a stabbing attack was foiled outside of the Lion’s 
Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem; 
(48) an attack on October 12, 2015, when an Israeli 
Border Police officer was stabbed by a 16-year-old Pales-
tinian terrorist in Jerusalem; 
(49) an attack on October 12, 2015, when 2 Pales-
tinian terrorists stabbed 2 Israeli civilians, including a 
13-year-old Israeli boy riding his bicycle, in Jerusalem; 
(50) an attack on October 12, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian terrorist stabbed an Israel Defense Forces soldier 
on a bus in Jerusalem; 
(51) an attack on October 11, 2015, when an Israeli 
police officer was injured when the driver of the car he 
pulled over set off an explosive device in Maaleh Adumim; 
(52) an attack on October 10, 2015, when a 16- 
year-old Palestinian terrorist stabbed 2 Israelis near the 
Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem; 
(53) an attack on October 10, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian terrorist stabbed 2 Israeli police officers near the 
Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem; 
(54) an attack on October 9, 2015, when a 16-year- 
old Israeli boy was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist in 
Jerusalem; 
(55) an attack on October 9, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian terrorist stabbed a police officer in Kiryat Arba; 
(56) an attack on October 9, 2015, when a Pales-
tinian terrorist attempted to stab an Israeli security 
guard at the Central Bus Station of Afula; 
(57) an attack on October 8, 2015, when an Israeli 
Defense Forces soldier and three others were stabbed by 
a Palestinian terrorist in Tel Aviv; 
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Whereas the policy of the Government of Israel to keep holy 
sites of all religions open for all to peacefully worship; 
Whereas Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas 
said on July 30, 2013, that ‘‘In a final resolution, [the 
Palestinian Authority] would not see the presence of a 
single Israeli’’ in the state of Palestine; 
Whereas Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas 
stated on a September 16, 2015, television broadcast that 
‘‘We welcome every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem. 
This is pure blood, clean blood, blood on its way to Allah. 
With the help of Allah, every martyr will be in heaven, 
and every wounded will get his reward’’; 
Whereas the Palestinian Authority-appointed Grand Mufti of 
Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, at-
tempted to discredit and eliminate Israeli claims to the 
Temple Mount by erroneously stating on an October 25, 
2015, television broadcast that ‘‘the Al-Aqsa Mosque was 
an Islamic mosque since the world was created . . . it 
was never anything other than a mosque’’; 
Whereas, on October 14, 2015, Palestinian Authority Presi-
dent Mahmoud Abbas falsely accused the Government of 
Israel of executing a Palestinian boy, who is alive and re-
covering in an Israeli hospital after he stabbed an inno-
cent Israeli citizen and was hit by an automobile, thus 
continuing to incite violence against innocent Israelis; 
Whereas, on September 30, 2015, Palestinian Authority 
President Mahmoud Abbas said during a speech to the 
United Nations that the Palestinian Authority is no 
longer bound to the 1995 Oslo Accords which established 
the 2-state solution for peace; 
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Whereas in June 2013, Palestinian Authority President 
Mahmoud Abbas referenced Israeli acts which ‘‘indicate 
an evil and dangerous plot to destroy Al-Aqsa and build 
the alleged temple’’; 
Whereas this month, a Palestinian family chose to name their 
newborn baby ‘‘Knife of Jerusalem’’ in order to show sol-
idarity with young Palestinians involved in terrorist at-
tacks against Israelis; 
Whereas in a November 2014 address commemorating the 
10th anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, President 
Abbas said that as Israel has no claim to Jerusalem, he 
will not allow the Temple Mount to be ‘‘contaminated by 
Jews’’, and threatened that Jewish prayer at the site 
would cause a ‘‘devastating religious war’’; 
Whereas Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Oc-
tober 19, 2015, following an attack by Israeli civilians on 
a wrongfully suspected terrorist that Israel is ‘‘a country 
of law’’ and that ‘‘no one will take the law into his own 
hands’’; 
Whereas Israelis and Palestinians alike have the right to live 
in safety and dignity; 
Whereas Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alternatively 
stated during an October 1, 2015, speech to the United 
Nations General Assembly that ‘‘I am prepared to imme-
diately resume direct peace negotiations with the Pales-
tinian Authority without any preconditions whatsoever’’; 
and 
Whereas Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas 
has not responded in kind: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that the 
United States— 
(1) condemns each and every one of these acts 
of violence against Israeli citizens in the strongest of 
terms; 
(2) believes that any chance at lasting peace 
can only happen through peaceful, bilateral, discus-
sions and sound consultation with peaceful allies, not 
calls for bloodshed; 
(3) expresses support for individuals and orga-
nizations working to encourage cooperation between 
Israelis and Palestinians and the many activists 
within Israel and Palestine working to bring an end 
to the conflict; 
(4) calls on Palestinian Authority President 
Mahmoud Abbas and the international community to 
join us in condemning the current wave of terrorism 
in Israel; and 
(5) reaffirms the friendship between Israel and 
the United States. 
Æ 
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