I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4664 
To direct the President to submit to Congress a report on actions the 
Department of State and other relevant Federal departments and agen-
cies have taken regarding steps to ensure that a just, comprehensive 
Arab-Israeli peace accord also finds resolution of the issue of Jewish 
refugees from Arab countries and Iran. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 2, 2016 
Mr. NADLER (for himself, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. POE of 
Texas, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. GRAYSON, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Ms. MENG, 
Mr. O’ROURKE, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, 
Mr. KING of New York, and Mr. DONOVAN) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To direct the President to submit to Congress a report 
on actions the Department of State and other relevant 
Federal departments and agencies have taken regarding 
steps to ensure that a just, comprehensive Arab-Israeli 
peace accord also finds resolution of the issue of Jewish 
refugees from Arab countries and Iran. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Displaced Jewish Refu-
gees from Arab Countries and Iran Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Armed conflicts in the Middle East have 
created refugee populations numbering in the mil-
lions and comprised of peoples from many ethnic, re-
ligious, and national backgrounds. 
(2) Jews have lived mostly as a minority in the 
Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf re-
gion for more than 2,500 years. 
(3) The United States has long voiced its con-
cern about the mistreatment of minorities and the 
violation of human rights in the Middle East and 
elsewhere. 
(4) The United States continues to play a piv-
otal role in seeking an end to the Arab-Israeli con-
flict in the Middle East and to promoting a peace 
that will benefit all the peoples of the region. 
(5) United States administrations historically 
have called for a just solution to the Palestinian ref-
ugee issue. 
(6) The Palestinian refugee issue has received 
considerable attention from countries of the world 
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while the issue of Jewish refugees from the Arab 
and Muslim worlds has received very little attention. 
(7) A comprehensive peace in the region will re-
quire the resolution of all outstanding issues through 
bilateral and multilateral negotiations involving all 
concerned parties. 
(8) Approximately 850,000 Jews were displaced 
from Arab countries and Iran since the declaration 
of the State of Israel in 1948. 
(9) The United States has demonstrated inter-
est and concern about the mistreatment, violation of 
rights, forced expulsion, and expropriation of assets 
of minority populations in general, and, in par-
ticular, former Jewish refugees displaced from Arab 
countries as evidenced, among other things, by— 
(A) the Memorandum of Understanding 
signed by President Jimmy Carter and Israeli 
Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan on October 4, 
1977, which states that ‘‘[a] solution of the 
problem of Arab refugees and Jewish refugees 
will be discussed in accordance with rules which 
should be agreed’’; 
(B) after negotiating the Camp David Ac-
cords, the Framework for Peace in the Middle 
East, the statement by President Jimmy Carter 
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in a press conference on October 27, 1977, that 
‘‘Palestinians have rights . . . obviously there 
are Jewish refugees . . . they have the same 
rights as others do’’; and 
(C) in an interview after Camp David II in 
July 2000, at which the issue of Jewish refu-
gees displaced from Arab lands was discussed, 
the statement by President Clinton that ‘‘There 
will have to be some sort of international fund 
set up for the refugees. There is, I think, some 
interest, interestingly enough, on both sides, in 
also having a fund which compensates the 
Israelis who were made refugees by the war, 
which occurred after the birth of the State of 
Israel. Israel is full of people, Jewish people, 
who lived in predominantly Arab countries who 
came to Israel because they were made refugees 
in their own land.’’. 
(10) On April 1, 2008, the House of Represent-
atives passed House Resolution 185, expressing the 
sense of the House of Representatives that— 
(A) for any comprehensive Middle East 
peace agreement to be credible and enduring, 
the agreement must address and resolve all out-
standing issues relating to the legitimate rights 
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of all refugees, including Jews, Christians, and 
other populations, displaced from countries in 
the Middle East; and 
(B) the President should instruct the 
United States Representative to the United Na-
tions and all United States representatives in 
bilateral and multilateral fora to— 
(i) use the voice, vote, and influence 
of the United States to ensure that any 
resolutions relating to the issue of Middle 
East refugees, and which include a ref-
erence to the required resolution of the 
Palestinian refugee issue, must also in-
clude a similarly explicit reference to the 
resolution of the issue of Jewish refugees 
from Arab countries; and 
(ii) make clear that the United States 
Government supports the position that, as 
an integral part of any comprehensive 
Arab-Israeli peace, the issue of refugees 
from the Middle East, North Africa, and 
the Persian Gulf must be resolved in a 
manner that includes recognition of the le-
gitimate rights of and losses incurred by 
all refugees displaced from Arab countries, 
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