; (B) protects Israeli and Palestinian civilian lives and combats acts of terror from groups like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah; (C) assists in reducing the need for Israeli military interventions in the West Bank; (D) provides greater stability and safety for the Palestinian people in the West Bank; and (E) supports regional peace and stability and improves the prospects for progress towards a negotiated resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and (2) the USSC is a crucial liaison for such effective coordination, professionalization, and communication. (b) Sense of Congress on burden sharing It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the financial and personnel burden of the mission of the USSC should be shared by all partners to the mission