Full Text of SR0122 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, On March 11, 2011, in the Israeli town of Itamar, | 3 | | five members of the Fogel family were brutally stabbed to death | 4 | | in their home: Father Udi, Mother Ruth, eleven-year old Yoav, | 5 | | four-year-old Elad, and 3-month-old Hadas; three of the Fogel's | 6 | | other children survived the attacks to see their parents and | 7 | | siblings murdered; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, a militant | 9 | | political faction of the Fatah party, which is a member of the | 10 | | Palestinian Liberation Organization, claims responsibility for | 11 | | the attacks; Fatah's leader, Palestinian President Mahmoud | 12 | | Abbas, has denounced the attacks internationally as | 13 | | "despicable, immoral, and inhuman"; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Despite public condemnation of the attacks, the | 15 | | Palestinian government has done little to end the rhetoric of | 16 | | anti-Semitism prevalent among political youth movements such | 17 | | as the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Two days after the horrific attack on the Fogel | 19 | | family, in a ceremony attended by Fatah leaders, the town of | 20 | | Al-Bireh renamed their town square in honor of Dalal Mughrabi, | 21 | | considered a martyr in Palestine for her role in organizing the | 22 | | 1978 bus hijacking in which 35 Israelis and 10 of the |
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| 1 | | Palestinian hijackers, including herself, were killed; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The renaming of a public square after Mughrabi, a | 3 | | Palestinian militant who is reviled as a terrorist in Israel, | 4 | | so soon after the Israeli national tragedy provoked an uproar | 5 | | throughout the international Jewish community and imperils the | 6 | | tenuous relationship between the two countries further; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The White House has issued a statement condemning | 8 | | the terrorist attacks in Itamar and calling for the Palestinian | 9 | | Authority to hold the perpetrators accountable; therefore, be | 10 | | it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 12 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we condemn the al-Aqsa | 13 | | Martyrs' Brigade for the Itamar murders of an innocent man and | 14 | | woman and of innocent children in an act of terrorism; and be | 15 | | it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, We ask the Palestinian Authority to use every | 17 | | possible means available to bring the Fogels' killers to | 18 | | justice; and be it further | 19 | | RESOLVED, We denounce the naming of the public square at | 20 | | Al-Bireh in honor of Dalal Mughrabi as a glorification of | 21 | | violence against the Israeli people; and be it further |
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, We ask the United States Congress and the | 2 | | President of the United States to condemn the naming of the | 3 | | Dalal Mughrabi public square as an anti-Semitic act; and be it | 4 | | further | 5 | | RESOLVED, That we urge Israeli and Palestinian leaders to | 6 | | come together in the wake of these unspeakable crimes and find | 7 | | a meaningful compromise to end bloodshed in the region; and be | 8 | | it further | 9 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 10 | | delivered to the President of the United States, the Majority | 11 | | and Minority Leaders of the United Senate, the Speaker and | 12 | | Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, | 13 | | the Consulate General of Israel, and the Consulate General of | 14 | | Egypt.
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