Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:04:58 -0400
From: info@jewishvoicefor
To: naiyer_rizvi@
Subject: Don't settle
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Last night at AIPAC's gala dinner in Washington DC, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu defended settlement expansion in Jerusalem by insisting on the historic right of Jews to build anywhere in the city, including in its eastern section. Today he will meet with U.S. President Obama and say the same. But Netanyahu is wrong, and Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama, who have called for a settlement freeze as the first step towards a true peace, are right. East Jerusalem was illegally annexed in 1967. The 1,600 Jewish-only housing units the government has approved for construction are illegal according to international law. Send a letter to Congress and Obama now (U.S. residents click here. Internationals here.) Our message for AIPAC, the Israeli government, and all those opposed to the U.S. call for a settlement freeze: Don't settle! Not anywhere in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Our message to Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Congress:Don't settle for anything less than Israel's full compliance with international law. Words aren't enough. Withhold aid until Israel ends settlement expansion and human rights violations and follows the law. Don't settle down, don't calm down, don't quiet down just because some people think it's OK to take Palestinian land at will. Settlements are wrong. They're illegal, they're immoral, and they enable thousands of Jews to live on land that doesn't belong to them. Settlements come at the price of Palestinian lives and livelihoods, Israeli security, and American lives, as General Petraeus stated last week. Settlements are incompatible with a just peace, and they're made possible by U.S. support. Thank you,  Cecilie Surasky Jewish Voice for Peace P.S. Obama and team can also look in their backyard to see another source of support for illegal settlement expansion that can be stopped: the network of tax-exempt US-based charities which send millions of dollars to fund illegal settlements in places like Hebron and East Jerusalem. JVP has just released a new policy paper on settlement funding. Click here to read it now. | |
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