; Whereas a just and lasting resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli issue requires respect for and the implementation of Palestine refugee rights as enshrined in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Whereas the United States Congress enacted the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 ( Public Law 115–441 ) mandating the President to identify, monitor, and report on potential and ongoing atrocities, and to develop policies and programs to improve the United States response, and noting that it is the policy of the United States to regard the prevention of atrocities as in its national interest ; Whereas Israeli politicians are increasingly threatening a second Nakba against the Palestinian people, as did, for instance, former Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs Matan Kahan, who stated on June 14, 2022, If there was a button that could be pressed and all the Arabs could disappear—get on an express train to Switzerland, I would push it. , and as did Jerusalem city council member Yonatan Yosef, who led chants of, We Want Nakba Now! during a provocative march through occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem on January 13, 2023; Whereas, on December 29, 2022, Israel formed its most extremist government to date, which includes in its cabinet Bezalel Smotrich, who previously stated to Palestinian citizens of Israel in Israel’s parliament, You’re here by mistake, it’s a mistake that [Israeli Prime Minister David] Ben-Gurion didn’t finish the job and didn’t throw you out in 1948. ; Whereas, after Israeli settlers committed a pogrom in the Palestinian West Bank village of Huwara on February 26, 2023, in which settlers killed one Palestinian, injured more than 100 others, and set fire to hundreds of houses, Smotrich also stated on March 1, 2023, that I think the [Palestinian] village of Huwara needs to be wiped out. I think the State of Israel should do it.