IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 438 
Urging member states of the United Nations to stop supporting resolutions 
that unfairly castigate Israel and to promote within the United Nations 
General Assembly more balanced and constructive approaches to resolving 
conflict in the Middle East. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 14, 2005 
Mr. ROTHMAN (for himself and Mr. KIRK) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on International Relations 
RESOLUTION 
Urging member states of the United Nations to stop sup-
porting resolutions that unfairly castigate Israel and to 
promote within the United Nations General Assembly 
more balanced and constructive approaches to resolving 
conflict in the Middle East. 
Whereas the 60th General Assembly of the United Nations 
will be held in New York City from September through 
December 2005; 
Whereas the State of Israel is the number one strategic ally 
of the United States and the only true democracy in the 
Middle East; 
Whereas 60 years ago the United Nations was founded to 
prevent another Holocaust from ever happening again;
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Whereas 3 years after its founding, the United Nations 
passed General Assembly Resolution 181, which estab-
lished the State of Israel as a homeland and refuge for 
Jews around the world; 
Whereas in recent years, the United Nations General Assem-
bly and United Nations Security Council have engaged in 
a pattern of introducing and approving hundreds of 
measures and resolutions that unfairly criticize and con-
demn Israel; 
Whereas despite the myriad of challenges facing the world 
community, the United Nations General Assembly has 
devoted a vastly disproportionate amount of time and re-
sources to castigating Israel; 
Whereas for the past 30 years, the United Nations has fund-
ed 3 entities that support anti-Israel propaganda, includ-
ing the Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), the Com-
mittee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the 
Palestinian People (CEIRPP), and the Special Com-
mittee to Investigate Israeli Human Rights Practices Af-
fecting the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the 
Occupied Territories (SCIIHRP); 
Whereas the double standard against the State of Israel that 
is perpetrated at the United Nations is pervasive: of 10 
emergency special sessions called by the United Nations 
General Assembly, 6 have been about Israel, and since 
1997, at the annual meetings of the United Nations 
Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, only Israel has 
had its own agenda item (Item 8) dealing with its alleged 
human rights violations, whereas all other countries are 
dealt with in a separate agenda item (Item 9);
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Whereas the State of Israel is the only member nation of the 
United Nations that has consistently been denied full ad-
mission into its regional group, the Asian Regional 
Group, which is Israel’s natural geopolitical grouping; 
Whereas as a result of this denial, Israel sought entry into 
the United Nations’ Western and Others Group (WEOG) 
and was only granted limited admission to that regional 
group in May 2000 for activities or meetings held in New 
York, but was not granted admission in any form to the 
activities or meetings of the WEOG held in Geneva, 
Nairobi, or Vienna; 
Whereas during the 59th session of the United Nations Gen-
eral Assembly, the General Assembly adopted a total of 
71 resolutions by roll call vote, 21 of which criticized 
Israel; 
Whereas despite the fact that there are 191 member states 
in the United Nations—many of which have abhorrent 
human rights records, approximately 30 percent of the 
resolutions voted on annually by the United Nations Gen-
eral Assembly address the actions of one country, the 
State of Israel; 
Whereas many member states of the United Nations General 
Assembly continue to engage in a discriminatory cam-
paign against Israel, including adopting a resolution on 
December 1, 2004, that condemned Israeli security meas-
ures without proportional condemnation of Palestinian 
terrorist attacks launched against Israel; 
Whereas as a founding member of the United Nations and 
as a constant and true partner for peace to both entities 
involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the United 
States has a special responsibility to promote fair and eq-
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uitable treatment of all nations in the context of inter-
national institutions and to stop what it views to be 
counter-productive efforts that undermine the role of the 
United Nations as an honest broker for peace in the 
Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and 
Whereas the State of Israel’s election to the Vice Presidency 
of the United Nations General Assembly presents mem-
ber nations with an opportunity to reverse the body’s pat-
tern of unfairly castigating Israel: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives urges 
member states of the United Nations to— 
(1) stop supporting resolutions that unfairly 
castigate Israel; and 
(2) promote within the United Nations General 
Assembly more balanced and constructive ap-
proaches to resolving conflict in the Middle East. 
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