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WHEREAS, June 2007 marks the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War and the reunification of the city of Jerusalem; and
WHEREAS, Israel has, since its founding, sought peace with its Arab neighbors; and
WHEREAS, in the weeks leading up to the Six Day War, Israel's neighbors, without provocation, called for and implemented a blockade of Israel's critical outlet to the Red Sea, ordered United Nations peace-keeping forces out of the Sinai desert, massed their forces with apparent hostile intent in the Sinai and in the Golan Heights, and publicly threatened to destroy Israel; and
WHEREAS, in six days of war, Israel defeated those forces seeking its destruction and reunited the city of Jerusalem which had been artificially divided for 19 years; and
WHEREAS, Jerusalem has been the focal point of Jewish religious devotion and the site of a continuous Jewish presence for over three millennia, with a Jewish majority since at least 1896; and
WHEREAS, Jerusalem is also a holy city for the Christian and Muslim faiths; and
WHEREAS, the vibrant Jewish population of the historic Old City of Jerusalem was driven out by force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War; and
WHEREAS, from 1948 to 1967 Jerusalem was a divided city, and Israeli citizens of all faiths as well as Jews of all nationalities were denied access to holy sites in eastern Jerusalem, including the Old City, in which the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are located; and
WHEREAS, this year marks the 40th year that Jerusalem has been administered as a unified city in which the rights of all faiths have been respected; and
WHEREAS, the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-45), which became law on November 8, 1995, states as a matter of United States policy that Jerusalem should remain the undivided capitalm of Israel; and
WHEREAS, it is the policy of the United States to support a peaceful, two-state solution to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians...
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