The U.S. House of Representatives will consider resolutions congratulating Israel on 40 years of a reunified Jerusalem and urging the genocide prosecution of Iran’s president.The House’s Foreign Affairs Committee referred the two non-binding resolutions to the full House on Wednesday. They will probably be considered in the first week of June, and are likely to pass. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), sponsored the resolution on Jerusalem, which “commends Israel for its administration of the undivided city of Jerusalem for the past 40 years, during which Israel has respected the rights of all religious groups” and calls on President Bush to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. A similar resolution is under consideration in the Senate.The resolution on Mahmoud Ahmadienejad urges the U.N. Security Council to prosecute him under its genocide convention for his calls to wipe out Israel.
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