Pro-Israel lawmakers from 13 countries will meet in Washington to affirm support for Israel. The conference, to take place in one of the congressional office buildings attached to the Capitol, will devote a session to the consideration of ways to end the refugee status of millions of Palestinian.
Benny Elon, the chairman of Israel's National Union Party and of the Knesset's Christian Allies Caucus, will attend and will promote the refugee component of his "Israeli initiative," which rejects the two-state solution favored by the Bush administration, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. His plan would annex the West Bank to Israel while making its Palestinians citizens of Jordan; Jordan rejects the plan.