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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3624
To prohibit assistance to the Palestinian Authority and any instrumentality
of the Palestinian Authority.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 24, 2002
Mr. CANTOR introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on International Relations
A BILL
To prohibit assistance to the Palestinian Authority and any
instrumentality of the Palestinian Authority.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Peace With Security
Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser
Arafat continues to demonstrate his belief that he
can achieve through violence what he was unable to
achieve at the negotiating table.
(2) The manner in which Chairman Arafat has
employed terrorism as a legitimate policy instrument
suggests that his aims include not only the establish-
ment of a Palestinian state but also the complete
elimination of Israel as the home of the Jewish peo-
ple.
(3) The Palestinian Authority embraces the pol-
icy of releasing terrorists shortly after they are
jailed, a policy that has become known as Chairman
Arafat’s notorious revolving door system of justice.
(4) After rejecting former Israeli Prime Min-
ister Barak’s far-reaching proposal at Camp David,
Chairman Arafat further undermined the essence of
the Oslo process.
(5) The Palestinian Authority and its Chairman
Yasser Arafat allow terrorist organizations to oper-
ate freely under its jurisdiction.
(6) Chairman Arafat has done little to prevent
acts of terrorism, and his inaction has in fact led to
escalation of violence and terrorism against innocent
Israelis, including women and children.
(7) Chairman Arafat preaches hostile and odi-
ous anti-Semitic propaganda against the State of
Israel and refuses to stop terrorist attacks and
inciteful rhetoric by organizations, individuals, and
groups under his control.
(8) Chairman Arafat’s Fatah group has claimed
responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks on in-
nocent Israeli civilians, including the November 29,
2001, bus bomb killing three people and wounding
nine people.
(9) The leader of Chairman Arafat’s Fatah fac-
tion justified the recent terrorist attacks, and threat-
ened innocent Israelis by stating that Israeli policy
against Palestinians in the territory is likely to bring
about, in the final analysis, responses that Israeli
people have not yet encountered.
(10) The Palestinian Authority was responsible
for the voyage of the Karine A freighter, captured
by Israel in the Red Sea on January 3, 2002, car-
rying 50 tons of weapons.
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE FOR THE PALES-
TINIAN AUTHORITY AND ITS INSTRUMENTAL-
ITIES.
(a) PROHIBITION.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able to any Federal department or agency for a fiscal year
may not be used for any form of assistance directly or
indirectly to the Palestinian Authority or any instrumen-
tality of the Palestinian Authority.
(b) WAIVER.—The President may waive the prohibi-
tion contained in subsection (a) for a fiscal year if the
President certifies in writing to Congress that such waiver
is in the national security interests of the United States.
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