I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5734 
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East and improve the economic 
situation for its people. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 18, 2014 
Mr. STOCKMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East and improve 
the economic situation for its people. 
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 ‘‘Right of Return Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PLAN FOR PEACE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds as follows: 
(1) The policy of the two-state solution and the 
concept of ‘‘land for peace’’ have consistently failed 
to bring about a lasting peace in the Land of Israel. 
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(2) In November 2014, Suha Arafat, wife of 
former Palestine Liberation Organization chair Yas-
ser Arafat, stated in the Italian newspaper La 
Repubblica that ‘‘The armed struggle today will not 
lead to anything. We will only end up crushed.’’. In 
that same interview, Arafat also stated that ‘‘Hamas 
has taken people hostage’’ and ‘‘A generation . . . 
is growing up in violence, with no education, with no 
hope but emigration’’. 
(3) The Palestinian Authority has been offered 
a sovereign state in virtually the entirety of the dis-
puted territories on multiple occasions, including in 
2000, 2001, and 2008, and has rejected it each 
time. 
(4) The 2011 unemployment rate at 28.4 per-
cent for Palestinian Arabs, compared with 5.1 per-
cent for Israeli Arabs. 
(5) A September 2007 survey by the Center for 
Palestinian Policy and Research found that 32 per-
cent of Palestinian Arabs want to emigrate. 
(6) The Emirate of Transjordan was created 
out of the British Mandate for Palestine for the ex-
plicit purpose of being the home for Palestinian 
Arabs by the Transjordan Memorandum in 1922. 
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(7) The concept of enabling people to move to 
new homes in other territories was recommended as 
a solution to the conflict by the Peel Commission in 
1937 and was also recommended as a solution to the 
conflict by the United Nations Partition Plan for 
Palestine in 1947. 
(8) The 2012 Levy Report found that the re-
gion of Judea and Samaria does not fall under the 
jurisdiction of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention. 
(9) The purpose of this bill is to increase the 
economic wealth and civil rights of Palestinian 
Arabs. 
(b) PLAN FOR PEACE.—The Congress of the United 
States shall take the following course of action: 
(1) The Secretary of State shall call for the 
State of Israel to increase the standard of living of 
those living in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza by extend-
ing its sovereignty over those territories, and for the 
Palestinian Arab residents currently residing in 
those areas to be granted citizenship in the countries 
that controlled those territories from 1949 to 1967 
and have a right of return to those countries. 
(2) As long as part of the unity government of 
the Palestinian Authority refuses to allow the right 
of return to the countries that controlled Judea, Sa-
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maria, and Gaza from 1949 to 1967, no funds ap-
propriated by Congress under any Act may be obli-
gated or expended to provide any United States as-
sistance, loan guarantee, or debt relief to the Pales-
tinian Authority. 
(3) The Secretary of State of the United States 
shall take such action as will ensure that refugees 
are allowed to be properly allowed to return into 
their host countries in accordance with the regula-
tions set forth by the United Nations High Commis-
sion for Refugees (UNHCR). 
(4) All United States assistance, loan guar-
antee, and debt relief that currently goes to the 
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Pales-
tinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) shall 
instead be used to assist those who exercise their 
right of return to the countries who controlled 
Judea, Samaria, and Gaza from 1949 to 1967. 
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