policy on terminating the arab league boycott of israel

policy on terminating the arab league boycott of israel Sec. 598. (a) Findings.—The Congress finds that— (1) since 1948 the Arab countries have maintained a primary boycott against Israel, refusing to do business with Israel; (2) since the early 1950s the Arab League has maintained a secondary and tertiary boycott against American and other companies that have commercial ties with Israel; (3) the boycott seeks to coerce American firms by blacklisting those that do business with Israel and harm America’s competitiveness; (4) the United States has a longstanding policy opposing the Arab League boycott and United States law prohibits American firms from providing information to Arab countries to demonstrate compliance with the boycott; (5) with real progress being made in the Middle East peace process and the serious confidence-building measures taken by the State of Israel, an end to the Arab boycott of Israel and of American companies that have commercial ties with Israel is long overdue and would represent a significant confidence-building measure; (6) the President has proposed the sale of 72 advanced F-15 aircraft to Saudi Arabia despite its refusal to renounce publicly the Arab boycott of American firms that do business with or invest in Israel; and (7) in the interest of Middle East peace and free commerce, the President must take more concrete steps to press the Arab states to end their practice of blacklisting and boycotting American companies that have trade ties with Israel. (b) Policy.—It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the Arab League countries should immediately and publicly renounce the primary boycott of Israel and the secondary and tertiary boycott of American firms that have commercial ties with Israel and (2) the President should— (A) take more concrete steps to encourage vigorously Arab League countries to renounce publicly the primary boycotts of Israel and the secondary and tertiary boycotts 106 STAT. 1696of American firms that have commercial relations with Israel as a confidence-building measure; (B) take into consideration the participation of any recipient country in the primary boycott of Israel and the secondary and tertiary boycotts of American firms that have commerical relations with Israel when determining whether to sell weapons to said country; (C) report to Congress on the specific steps being taken by the President to bring about a public renunciation of the Arab primary boycott of Israel and the secondary and tertiary boycotts of American firms that have commercial relations with Israel; and (D) encourage the allies and trading partners of the United States to enact laws prohibiting businesses from complying with the boycott and penalizing businesses that do comply.