PRINTER'S NO. 3645
No. 718 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY FRANKEL, BAKER, BELFANTI, BEYER, BISHOP, BOYD,
CLYMER, COHEN, CREIGHTON, CUTLER, DENLINGER, D. EVANS,
EVERETT, FLECK, FREEMAN, GALLOWAY, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GODSHALL,
GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARHART, HARKINS, HELM, HENNESSEY, HERSHEY,
HESS, HUTCHINSON, JOSEPHS, KENNEY, KOTIK, LONGIETTI, MANN,
MANTZ, MELIO, MUNDY, NAILOR, M. O'BRIEN, PALLONE, PAYNE,
PHILLIPS, RAMALEY, READSHAW, SAINATO, SANTONI, SAYLOR,
SCAVELLO, SWANGER, TRUE, VULAKOVICH, WATSON, DePASQUALE,
KAUFFMAN, SHAPIRO, LEVDANSKY, BARRAR, O'NEILL, McILHATTAN,
GERBER, MOYER AND D. O'BRIEN, MAY 2, 2008
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
MAY 2, 2008
A RESOLUTION
1 Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the birth of Israel.
2 WHEREAS, The land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish
3 people, and despite Jewish exile, the land has remained the
4 place where their religious, spiritual and national identity
5 were formed; and
6 WHEREAS, In 1897, the First Zionist Congress proclaimed the
7 right of the Jewish people to national revival in their own
8 country, a right acknowledged in 1917 by the Balfour Declaration
9 and later reaffirmed by the League of Nations; and
10 WHEREAS, The atrocities of the Nazi Holocaust and the death
11 of millions of Jews in Europe reestablished and refocused the
12 need for an independent Jewish state; and
13 WHEREAS, In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted
1 a resolution calling for the establishment of an independent
2 Jewish state in Palestine and directed inhabitants of the
3 country to take actions facilitating this resolution; and
4 WHEREAS, The members of the National Council representing the
5 Jewish people in Palestine and the Zionist movement of the world
6 met and issued a Declaration of Israel's Independence on May 14,
7 1948; and
8 WHEREAS, In a relatively brief time and despite difficult
9 challenges in the issues of peace and security, Israel has
10 emerged from a fledgling state to one with a successful
11 democracy, a strong economy and a powerful military; therefore
12 be it
13 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives commemorate the
14 60th anniversary of the birth of Israel.
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