CFL ALERT: ISRAEL TO CONNECT WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS TO JERUSALEM. ASK YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO SUPPORT ONE STATE WITH EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL.
SEND OUR PREWRITTEN LETTER NOW, OR WRITE YOUR OWN:
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Citizens for Fair Legislation
For Immediate Release
September 20, 2005
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CFL ALERT: ISRAEL PREPARING TO ILLEGALLY APPROPRIATE MORE PALESTINIAN LAND BY CONNECTING SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST BANK TO JERUSALEM.
TALKING POINTS:
*Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged on Monday, September 19, to connect the Ma'aleh Adumim settlement (colony) to Jerusalem. The Sharon government has indicated that they have Washington’s permission to continue to build on illegally occupied Palestinian land. Please take a moment to remind your elected officials that UN Resolution 252 calls on Israel to rescind all measures that change the legal status of Jerusalem, including the expropriation of land and properties thereon and that Israel stop taking measures to unify Jerusalem as the “Jewish capital”. The current plan to extend Ma’aleh Adumin to Jerusalem shows that the disengagement from Gaza was nothing but a plan to steal more Palestinian land in the West Bank.
* Ask your representatives to clarify statements made by Sharon. If in fact the U.S. is supporting the continued occupation of Palestinian land, please ask your representatives to officially abandon the roadmap as U.S. sanctioned settlement expansion contradicts the possibility of a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel.
*Ask your representatives to support the one state solution with equal rights for Palestinians and Jews as well as the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Tell your representatives that if they support the right of Israelis to continue to steal Palestinian land, that they should also support the internationally recognized right of return of Palestinians inside of Israel (portion occupied in 1948).
*Tell your representatives that as an American you can only support one democratic state with equal social and human rights for Palestinians and Israelis. A true democracy respects the rights of each citizen equally. Historic Palestine now has 6 million Jews and over 5 million original Palestinian inhabitants (with many million more living along the borders as refugees). If the U.S. expects all different ethnic and religious groups in Iraq to live together in one unified democratic nation, there is no reason for this government not to demand that Israel do the same and offer citizenship to Palestinians in their own country.
EMAIL AND OR CALL THE WHITE HOUSE WHITE HOUSE COMMENTS LINE:
202-456-1111
WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD:
202-456-1414
WHITE HOUSE FAX: 202-456-2461
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