Recognizing the 57th anniversary of the independence of the state of Israel; urging withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon; support for democratic elections in Lebanon, and for other purposes; expressing sense of the House regarding manifestations of anti-Semitism by U.N. member states, and for other purposes; and welcoming the President of Afghanistan on his May 2005 visit to the U.S., and for other purposes : markup before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, on H. Con. Res. 149, H. Res. 273, H. Res. 282, and H. Con. Res. 153, May 18, 2005.