Title: Expressing support for addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict in a concurrent track with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and commending Arab and Muslim-majority states that have improved bilateral relations with Israel.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This resolution reaffirms U.S. policy to support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The resolution urges Palestine and other Arab and Muslim-majority states to engage in negotiations with Israel in order to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and improve bilateral relations.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 138 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 138

   Expressing support for addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict in a 
    concurrent track with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and 
commending Arab and Muslim-majority states that have improved bilateral 
                         relations with Israel.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 19, 2019

Mr. Hastings (for himself, Mr. Schweikert, Mr. Woodall, and Mr. Engel) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                           on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Expressing support for addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict in a 
    concurrent track with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and 
commending Arab and Muslim-majority states that have improved bilateral 
                         relations with Israel.

Whereas a lasting two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is 
        essential to achieving long-term peace and security in the Middle East;
Whereas it is the long-standing policy of the United States that a peaceful 
        resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will only come through 
        direct negotiations between the Government of Israel and the Palestinian 
        Authority;
Whereas successive United States Presidential administrations have pursued peace 
        agreements between the parties for over 30 years, including the 1982 
        Reagan Plan for Middle East Peace, the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, the 
        1993 Oslo Accords, the 1995 Wye River Memorandum, the 2000 Camp David 
        Summit, the 2000 Clinton Parameters, the 2001 Sharm El-Sheikh Fact-
        Finding Committee Report, the 2003 Roadmap for Peace in the Middle East, 
        the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access, the 2007 Annapolis 
        Conference, and efforts to restart the peace process under the Obama 
        Administration;
Whereas these efforts to encourage direct and bilateral negotiations between the 
        two parties have presently been unsuccessful at ending the Israeli-
        Palestinian conflict;
Whereas the inability to achieve a two-state solution threatens the State of 
        Israel's security and identity as the democratic homeland of the Jewish 
        people;
Whereas the inability to achieve a two-state solution impedes the well-being and 
        self-determination of the Palestinian people;
Whereas reports indicate that Arab and Muslim-majority states have taken steps 
        to improve bilateral relations with the State of Israel and are seeking 
        new ways to advance strategic cooperative initiatives; and
Whereas recent strategic trends in the region suggest that an integrated 
        regional approach, defined by concurrent bilateral negotiations between 
        the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority and conversations 
        between the Government of Israel and regional Arab and Muslim-majority 
        states, could result in new progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace 
        process: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) reaffirms that it is the policy of the United States to 
        support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian 
        conflict negotiated between the State of Israel and the 
        Palestinian Authority, and resulting in two states for two 
        peoples, living side-by-side in peace, security, and mutual 
        recognition;
            (2) commends the State of Israel's ongoing efforts to 
        improve bilateral relations with Arab and Muslim-majority 
        states in the region;
            (3) commends Arab and Muslim-majority states that have 
        taken steps to improve bilateral relations with the State of 
        Israel;
            (4) urges the Palestinian Authority and regional Arab and 
        Muslim-majority states to engage in bilateral and multilateral 
        negotiations with the State of Israel to advance the Israeli-
        Palestinian peace process and support the normalization of 
        bilateral relations; and
            (5) urges the resumption of bilateral negotiations between 
        the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, including 
        piecemeal approaches to advance the ultimate goal of a final-
        status agreement between the parties.
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