IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 729 
Expressing support for the expeditious consideration and finalization of a 
new, robust, and long-term Memorandum of Understanding on military 
assistance to Israel between the United States Government and the 
Government of Israel. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 13, 2016 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. DEUTCH, Ms. GRANGER, and Mrs. 
LOWEY) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for the expeditious consideration and fi-
nalization of a new, robust, and long-term Memorandum 
of Understanding on military assistance to Israel between 
the United States Government and the Government of 
Israel. 
Whereas in April 1998 the United States designated Israel 
as a ‘‘major non-NATO ally’’; 
Whereas, on August 16, 2007, the United States and Israel 
signed a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) 
on United States military assistance to Israel, the total 
assistance over the course of this understanding would 
equal $30,000,000,000; 
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Whereas since the signing of the 2007 Memorandum of Un-
derstanding, intelligence and defense cooperation has con-
tinued to grow; 
Whereas, on October 15, 2008, the Naval Vessel Transfer 
Act of 2008 was signed into law (Public Law 110–429) 
and defined Israel’s qualitative military edge (QME) as 
‘‘the ability to counter and defeat any credible conven-
tional military threat from any individual state or pos-
sible coalition of states or from non-state actors, while 
sustaining minimal damage and casualties, through the 
use of superior military means, possessed in sufficient 
quantity, including weapons, command, control, commu-
nication, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ca-
pabilities that in their technical characteristics are supe-
rior in capability to those of such other individual or pos-
sible coalition of states or non-state actors’’; 
Whereas, on July 27, 2012, the United States-Israel En-
hanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 (Public Law 
112–150) declared it to be the policy of the United 
States ‘‘to help the Government of Israel preserve its 
qualitative military edge amid rapid and uncertain re-
gional political transformation’’; 
Whereas Israel faces immediate threats to its security from 
the United States designated Foreign Terrorist Organiza-
tion, Hezbollah, and its missile and rocket stockpile esti-
mated to number around 150,000, and from the United 
States 
designated 
Foreign 
Terrorist 
Organization, 
Hamas, that continues to attempt to rebuild its tunnel 
network to infiltrate Israel and restock its own missile 
and rocket stockpiles; 
Whereas Israel also faces immediate threats to its security 
from the ongoing regional instability in the Middle East, 
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especially from the ongoing conflict in Syria and from 
militant groups in the Sinai; 
Whereas Iran remains a threat to Israel, as demonstrated by 
Iran’s continued bellicosity, including several illegal tests 
of ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, 
even reportedly marking several of these weapons with 
Hebrew words declaring ‘‘Israel must be wiped out’’; 
Whereas the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2016 authorized funds to be appropriated for Israeli 
cooperative missile defense program codevelopment and 
coproduction, including funds to be provided to the Gov-
ernment of Israel to procure the David’s Sling weapon 
system as well as the Arrow 3 Upper Tier Interceptor 
Program; and 
Whereas, on December 19, 2014, the President signed into 
law the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 
2014 (Public Law 113–296) which stated the sense of 
Congress that Israel is a major strategic partner of the 
United States and declared it to be the policy of the 
United States ‘‘to continue to provide Israel with robust 
security assistance, including for the procurement of the 
Iron Dome Missile Defense System’’: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) reaffirms that Israel is a major strategic 
partner of the United States; 
(2) reaffirms that it is the policy and law of the 
United States to ensure that Israel maintains its 
qualitative military edge and has the capacity and 
capability to defend itself from all threats; 
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(3) reaffirms United States support of a robust 
Israeli tiered missile defense program; 
(4) supports continued discussions between the 
Government of the United States and the Govern-
ment of Israel for a robust and long-term Memo-
randum of Understanding on United States military 
assistance to Israel; 
(5) urges the expeditious finalization of a new 
Memorandum of Understanding between the Govern-
ment of the United States and the Government of 
Israel; and 
(6) supports a robust and long-term Memo-
randum of Understanding negotiated between the 
United States and Israel regarding military assist-
ance which increases the amount of aid from pre-
vious agreements and significantly enhances Israel’s 
military capabilities. 
Æ 
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