Congress: 105 · Status: active · Israel/Palestine classification: pro-Palestine
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Sponsor: D'Amato, Alfonse (R-NY)
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) Israel, and Israel alone, can determine its security needs; (2) the final political status of the Palestinian entity can only be determined through bilateral negotiations and agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority; (3) any such unilateral declaration of a Palestinian State would be a grievous violation of the Oslo Accords, would seriously impede any possibility of advancing the peace process, and would have severe negative consequences for Palestinian relations with the United States; and (4) the President should now publicly and unequivocally state that the United States will actively oppose such a unilateral declaration and will not extend recognition to any unilaterally declared Palestinian State.
This resolution states Congress's position that Palestinians cannot unilaterally declare statehood; that Israel alone determines its security needs; that any Palestinian state must result from direct bilateral negotiations with Israel; and that the President should publicly oppose and refuse to recognize any unilateral Palestinian declaration.
This is a non-binding statement of congressional sentiment opposing Palestinian unilateral statehood claims and reaffirming unconditional deference to Israeli security determinations. The resolution's classification as pro-Palestine by VoteLog appears inconsistent with its text, which opposes Palestinian self-determination pathways outside Israeli-approved negotiation and endorses Israeli security primacy.