H. Res. 1194 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
May 22, 2008. 
Whereas, on May 7, 2008, the terrorist group Hizballah, in 
response to the justifiable exercise of authority by the 
sovereign, democratically-elected Government of Lebanon, 
initiated an unjustifiable insurrection by fomenting riots, 
blocking roads, seizing buildings, and organizing maraud-
ing groups of gunmen who took control of much of Bei-
rut, including the sites of key government institutions, 
and provoked sectarian fighting elsewhere in Lebanon; 
Whereas, in the course of this ongoing insurrection initiated 
by Hizballah, more than 80 Lebanese citizens have been 
murdered and more than 250 have been wounded; 
Whereas, in the course of this fighting, Hizballah and allied 
fighters attacked the residences of Future Party leader 
Saad Hariri and Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid 
Jumblatt, both of whose parties are members of the le-
gitimate governing coalition under Prime Minister Fouad 
Siniora; 
Whereas, in the course of their insurrection, Hizballah and 
allied fighters forced the Future Party’s television station 
off the air and burned the building housing the Future 
Party’s newspaper;
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Whereas Hizballah and its allies have turned over some of the 
areas they conquered in Beirut to the Lebanese Armed 
Forces; 
Whereas key government institutions, including the prime 
ministry, remain under siege, as do the residences of 
Saad Hariri and Walid Jumblatt; 
Whereas the purpose of Hizballah’s insurrection is to intimi-
date the legitimate, democratically-elected Government of 
Lebanon, the Lebanese Armed Forces, and other legiti-
mate Lebanese authorities, so that Hizballah will have 
maximum freedom of military action, can deepen its con-
trol over its ‘‘state within a state’’ in Shiite-dominated 
areas of Lebanon, and can enhance its influence on Leba-
nese Government decision-making in order to render Leb-
anon subservient to Iranian foreign policy; 
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1559, 
1680, and 1701 affirm the sovereignty, territorial integ-
rity, unity, and political independence of Lebanon under 
the sole and exclusive authority of the Government of 
Lebanon; 
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1559, 
1680, and 1701 call for the disbanding and disarming of 
all militias in Lebanon; 
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 
insists that no country transfer arms into Lebanon other 
than with the consent of the Government of Lebanon; 
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1747 
explicitly forbids Iran from transferring arms to any enti-
ty;
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Whereas Hizballah has contemptuously dismissed the require-
ments of the United Nations Security Council by refusing 
to disarm; 
Whereas Hizballah and its allies have repeatedly sought to 
undermine the legitimate Government of Lebanon under 
Prime Minister Siniora by preventing parliament from 
meeting and blocking the election of a new President, 
leaving that office vacant for the past half-year; 
Whereas, contrary to the explicit and binding mandates of 
the United Nations Security Council, Iran continues to 
provide training, arms, and funding to Hizballah; 
Whereas, contrary to the explicit and binding mandates of 
the United Nations Security Council, Syria continues to 
facilitate the transfer of arms to Hizballah via its terri-
tory; 
Whereas Syria, through, inter alia, its support of Hizballah’s 
efforts to undermine Prime Minister Siniora, its sus-
pected campaign of assassinations of Lebanese leaders, 
its minimal cooperation with the international investiga-
tion of these assassinations, and its refusal to delineate 
its border with Lebanon, shows every sign of wanting to 
control Lebanon as it did prior to its April 2005 with-
drawal; 
Whereas it is highly likely that Hizballah provoked the recent 
fighting in Lebanon with the blessing of Syria and Iran; 
and 
Whereas Hizballah and its Lebanese political allies continue 
to pursue an agenda favoring foreign interests over the 
will of the majority of Lebanese as expressed in a legiti-
mate and democratic election: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
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(1) reaffirms its strong support for the legitimate, 
democratically-elected Government of Lebanon under 
Prime Minister Fouad Siniora; 
(2) expresses its profound sympathy to the people 
of Lebanon, who have again been thrust unjustly, and 
against their will, into a conflict initiated by Hizballah; 
(3) offers its condolences to all those in Lebanon 
who have suffered displacement, injury, or death in their 
family, or among their loved ones, as a consequence of 
Hizballah’s unjustifiable insurrection against the Gov-
ernment of Lebanon; 
(4) condemns— 
(A) Hizballah’s illegitimate assault on the sov-
ereign Government of Lebanon, which has led to 
the worst sectarian warfare in that country since 
the civil war from 1975 to 1990; 
(B) Hizballah for its unprovoked attacks 
against Lebanese leaders, citizens, and against Leb-
anese public and private institutions and for its ille-
gal occupation of territory under the sovereignty of 
the Government of Lebanon; and 
(C) Syria and Iran for illegally transferring 
arms and providing other forms of military support 
to Hizballah, in clear violation of United Nations