House Bill 2141

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HM 2141

        By Representatives Levine, Ritter, Sanderson, Greenstein,
    Fasano, Wasserman Schultz, L. Miller and Sobel





  1                          House Memorial

  2         A memorial to the President of the United

  3         States, urging the President to relocate the

  4         United States Embassy in the State of Israel to

  5         the City of Jerusalem.

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  7         WHEREAS, in 1996, the State of Israel celebrated the

  8  3,000th anniversary of the Jewish presence in Jerusalem since

  9  King David entered the city and established it as the center

10  of both Hebrew government and worship, and

11         WHEREAS, torn by conflict during the centuries that

12  followed, and falling to the rule of diverse peoples and

13  cultures, nevertheless Jerusalem has been consistently viewed

14  as a holy city by members of different religious faiths, and

15         WHEREAS, although officially designated the capital of

16  the modern State of Israel in 1950, Jerusalem was a divided

17  city from 1948 until 1967, when it was again united under

18  Israeli rule, and persons of all religious faiths were granted

19  full access to its holy sites, and

20         WHEREAS, the City of Jerusalem is the seat of Israel's

21  President, Parliament, and Supreme Court, and the site of

22  numerous government ministries and social and cultural

23  institutions, and

24         WHEREAS, acknowledging that each sovereign nation,

25  under international law and custom, may designate its own

26  capital, the United States Congress overwhelmingly passed the

27  Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act of 1995, marking the first

28  time the policy of this nation recognized Jerusalem as the

29  undivided Capital of Israel and determining that the United

30  States Embassy be established in Jerusalem no later than May

31  1999, and

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  1         WHEREAS, the United States conducts official meetings

  2  and other business in Jerusalem in de facto recognition of its

  3  status as the Capital of Israel; however, the United States

  4  Embassy remains in Tel Aviv to this day, NOW, THEREFORE,

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  6  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  8         That the President of the United States be urged to

  9  immediately initiate the relocation of the United States

10  Embassy in the State of Israel from Tel Aviv to the City of

11  Jerusalem.

12         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

13  transmitted to the President of the United States, the

14  President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the

15  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of

16  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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