Original Resolution Affirming the State of Palestine’s Right to Exist

Bill: 118-hres-902
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2023-12-01
Policy area: International Affairs
Latest action: action_date: 2023-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-12-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Original Resolution Affirming the State of Palestine's Right to Exist</b></p> <p>This resolution affirms Palestine's right to exist and at a future time become a nation-state. It also recognizes the two-state solution as the only one to secure a lasting peace and rejects calls for Palestine's destruction.</p>

tv_txt: IV 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 902 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 1, 2023 Mr. Green of Texas submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs RESOLUTION Affirming the State of Palestine’s right to exist.

Whereas this resolution may be cited as the Original Resolution Affirming the State of Palestine’s Right to Exist ; Whereas Palestinian people are inhabitants of the land of Palestine; Whereas, in 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 181, which called for the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish States; Whereas, on May 14, 1948, President Harry Truman issued a statement recognizing Israel as an independent State; and Whereas, on November 28, 2023, the House of Representatives agreed to House Resolution 888, Reaffirming the State of Israel’s right to exist, by a vote of 412 Yeas, one Nay, and one Present: Now, therefore, be it

That the House of Representatives— (1) affirms Palestine’s right to exist and at a future time to become a nation State; (2) recognizes the two-state solution as the only solution that will secure a lasting peace in the region; and (3) rejects calls for Palestine’s destruction.