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Date: Tues. Apr. 2nd, 2002 10:14:19
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Action Alert
Palestine
/ Israel
The US State Department is interested in hearing from Americans regarding
what people think about the current crisis in the occupied territories
and
in Israel. (See "Talking Points")
Please call and/or fax in your comments to:
Middle East Peace Process Team at the US State Department, office of the
Team Leader, Lee Litzenberger--(202) 647-4589
State prefers to have things in writing, so please also fax your statement
to (202) 736-4462 and to (202) 647-7837.
Below are the talking points prepared by the ADC.
Thanks.
Zaha Hassan
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TALKING POINTS:
Reminder: Keep your comments, brief, polite and simple.
1. Demand that President Bush immediately
act to enforce Security
Council Resolution 1402, which the US voted for on Saturday and which
the State Department and the UN Secretary General endorsed yesterday
(Mon. April 1st). Resolution 1402 demands an immediate Israeli withdrawal
from all
Palestinian areas re-invaded since Friday.
2. Emphasize that there is no military
solution to the conflict. Peace
and security for both Israelis and Palestinians can only come with an
end to the 34-year old Israeli occupation. Urge President Bush to
embrace the Saudi-initiated Arab League Declaration offering Israel
peace and normal relations with all the Arab states in return for Israel
withdrawing fully from the West Bank Gaza and East Jerusalem and a just
resolution to the refugee problem based on UN resolutions. The Arab
League plan provides the best opportunity in years to resolve the
conflict, meets the stated needs of all parties and is consistent with
international law.
3. Express your outrage that Israeli occupation
forces have reportedly
been attacking Palestinian medical services and personnel, including
hospitals, ambulances, doctors and nurses, and paramedics.
4. Urge President Bush to express as much
outrage about Israel's killing
of over 1,200 Palestinians in 17 months as he does concerning the deaths
of 400 Israelis in the same period. Most of the dead on both sides are
unarmed civilians.
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A minute of Silence
If you are still shaken by the horrifying scenes of
September 11, please observe a moment of silence for
the 5,000 civilian lives lost in the New York,
Washington, DC and Pennsylvania attacks.
While we're at it, let's have 13 minutes of silence
for the 130,000 Iraqi civilians killed in 1991 by
order of President Bush Sr. Take another moment to
remember how Americans celebrated and cheered in the
streets.
Now another 20 minutes of silence for the 200,000
Iranians killed by Iraqi soldiers using weapons and
money provided to young Saddam Hussein by the American
government before the great eagle turned all its power
against Iraq.
Another 15 minutes of silence for the Russians and
150,000 Afghans killed by the Taliban troups who were
supported and trained by the CIA.
Plus 10 minutes of silence for 100,000 Japanese killed
in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Atomic bombs dropped
by the USA.
We've just kept quiet for one hour: one minute for the
Americans killed in NY, DC, and Pennsylvania, 59
minutes for their victims throughout the world.
If you are still in awe, let's have another hour of
silence for all those killed in Vietnam, which is not
something Americans like to admit.
Or for the massacre in Panama in 1989, where Americans
troops attacked poor villagers, leaving 20,000
Panamanians homeless and thousands more dead.
Or for the millions of children who have died because
of the USA embargoes on Iraq and Cuba.
Or the hundreds of thousands brutally murdered
throughout the world by USA-sponsored civil wars and
coups d'etat (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia,
Guatemala, El Salvador to name a few).
Maybe, and although the memory of Americans claims
otherwise, someone may remember the USA attack on
Bagdad where 18,000 civilians were killed. Did someone
see it on CNN? Was justice ever served? Or was there
even any retaliation?
The dead in other places hurt as much as the dead of
the Towers.
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NO MORE WARS!
"There are no other ways to peace than peace itself."
Can you here this? Can you hear us? We do not want an other war.
We do not wish for more people to die, for more countries to be invaded,
or for more lives to be spared in the name of peace.
Also, if you wanted to help these Afghans, why did you wait ten years
to do it. With a group of friends from Europe, we have been writing
many letters to the UN, telling them about the problems in Afghanistan.
But all we ever recieved was one of those 55 page letters telling us
how they can not get involved.
We have thousands of years of experience in the matters of war and
peace and it makes me feel so ashamed to be a human being when I see
how much we like the sound of our own voice when preaching peace.
I condemn the terrorist acts of 9/11 the same way I condemn the terror
that the US and Allies have brought to the Middle East. There is no
good reason in killing someone. And that is the bottom-line.
If someone gets attacked and robbed of his privacy and possessions in
his home, he protects himself with a good alarm system. He does not
go to rob his neighbor to acquire similar objects he lost.
Just remember and act upon what our parents and past generations have
thought us:
"Two wrong does not make
one right."
Peace is the only thing that can save us from terror. And if you do
not see it that way, you may have to read some more of those history
books and learn from those who lost families, friends and everything
that was important to them in the name of what is right.
Also, if you want to make war, DO NOT USE THE WORD PEACE
TO JUSTIFY YOUR TERRORISM AND ACTS OF MURDER.
AND IT GOES FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE FANATICALLY SUPPORTING THIS
WAR, EAST OR WEST.
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