The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution endorsing the aims of an upcoming U.N. conference against racism and denouncing attempts to derail the conference by attacking Israel. The House also passed a resolution calling on the United Nations to turn over to Israel a video made by a U.N. peacekeeper hours after Hezbollah gunmen kidnapped three Israeli soldiers last October.
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