Full Text of SJR0074 094th General Assembly
SJ0074 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, On October 26, 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, | 3 |
| President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, declared that | 4 |
| "Israel must be wiped off the map", described Israel as "a | 5 |
| disgraceful blot [on] the face of the Islamic world", and | 6 |
| declared that "[a]nybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the | 7 |
| fire of the Islamic nation's fury"; and
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| WHEREAS, President Ahmadinejad told reporters on December | 9 |
| 8, 2005, at an Islamic conference in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, "Some | 10 |
| European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions | 11 |
| of innocent Jews in furnaces ... although we don't accept this | 12 |
| claim"; and
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| WHEREAS, Iran funds, trains, and openly supports terrorist | 14 |
| groups that are determined to destroy Israel; and
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| WHEREAS, On December 14, 2005, President Ahmadinejad said | 16 |
| live on Iranian television, "[T]hey have invented a myth that | 17 |
| Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the | 18 |
| prophets"; and
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| WHEREAS, The leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, | 20 |
| beginning with its founder, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, | 21 |
| have issued statements of hate against the United States, | 22 |
| Israel, and Jewish peoples; and
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| WHEREAS, An estimated six million Jews were killed in the | 24 |
| Nazi Holocaust; and
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| WHEREAS, The remarks of President Ahmadinejad have been | 26 |
| denounced around the world and condemned by, among others, the | 27 |
| political leaders of the United States, Arab nations, Israel, | 28 |
| Europe, and the United Nations; and
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| WHEREAS, The United Nations, in General Assembly | 2 |
| Resolution 181 (1947), recommended the adoption of the Plan of | 3 |
| Partition with Economic Union for Palestine, which called for | 4 |
| an independent Jewish State; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 6 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | 7 |
| CONCURRING HEREIN, that we, in adopting this resolution, | 8 |
| condemn the recent statement by Iranian President Mahmoud | 9 |
| Ahmadinejad that denied the occurrence of the Holocaust and | 10 |
| supported moving the State of Israel to Europe, support the | 11 |
| demand of the United States Congress for an official apology | 12 |
| for these damaging, anti-Semitic statements that ignore | 13 |
| history, human suffering, and the loss of life during the | 14 |
| Holocaust, and support the call of the United States Congress | 15 |
| for Iran to end its support for international terrorism and | 16 |
| join other Middle Eastern countries in seeking a successful | 17 |
| outcome of the Middle East peace process; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be presented to | 19 |
| the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Iranian | 20 |
| Ambassador to the United States, the President of the United | 21 |
| States, the Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of | 22 |
| Representatives, the President Pro Tempore and Secretary of the | 23 |
| United States Senate, and the members of the Illinois | 24 |
| Congressional delegation.
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