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DESCRIPTION:David L. Mandel, a member of the local Jewish Voice for Peace chapter, a 
 U.S-Israeli dual citizen and longtime activist for peace and justice in the 
 Middle East, said, In fact, more and more of us, especially younger Jews, 
 are increasingly appalled by the disastrous occupation, militarist and 
 anti-democratic policies of Israel’s government.\n\n\nFOR IMMEDIATE 
 RELEASE \nSaturday, Dec. 3, 2011 \nContact: 916-225-8511 \n  
 \nDaybook/SUNDAY editor \n  \nProtest bulldozer will demolish homes outside 
 ‘Israel lobby’ \nevent Sunday, Dec. 4; Local elected officials urged to 
 \nshow support of justice by shunning AIPAC lunch \n  \nWielding giant 
 props painted to look like homes and a Caterpillar bulldozer, local members 
 of Jewish Voice for Peace and others will dramatize Israeli demolition of 
 Palestinian homes outside the annual AIPAC gathering at the Radisson Hotel, 
 500 Leisure Lane, Sacramento, on Sunday, December 4 at 11am.  \n  \nSince 
 Israel began its military occupation of Palestine’s West Bank and Gaza 
 Strip in 1967, more than 24,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished as 
 part of Israel’s on-going occupation and colonization. \n  \nMore than 
 500,000 Jewish-Israeli settlers have been moved to the occupied West Bank 
 in violation of the Geneva Conventions.  Many of the settlers are armed, 
 and, with the protection of the Israeli military, attack and harass 
 Palestinian civilians and destroy their property. \n  \nAIPAC, the American 
 Israel Political Action Committee, commonly referred to as the “Israel 
 lobby” but espousing particularly hard-line Israeli and U.S. policy 
 positions, tries to entice local elected officials to attend this annual 
 luncheon by pretending it represents the views and interests of American 
 Jews. \n  \n“In fact, more and more of us, especially younger Jews, are 
 increasingly appalled by the disastrous occupation, militarist and 
 anti-democratic policies of Israel’s government,” said David L. Mandel, 
 a member of the local Jewish Voice for Peace chapter, a U.S-Israeli dual 
 citizen and longtime activist for peace and justice in the Middle East. 
 “AIPAC’s public support may not yet be down to 1 percent, but that’s 
 whose interests it represents and we have no doubt it will get there as the 
 99 percent in America become increasingly aware of how we’re being misled 
 on this issue along with so many others.”\n\n“Our government’s 
 continued political, military and financial support of Israel is 
 politically and morally untenable: it promotes war and oppression, not 
 peace and justice,” states a letter sent by Jewish Voice for Peace, 
 Veterans for Peace, Physicians for Social Responsibility and several other 
 organizations to local, state and federal elected officials, asking them 
 not to attend the event. “While people all over the Middle East are 
 demanding freedom and democracy, AIPAC supports the denial of these basic 
 rights to Palestinians under the guise of security for Israel, which 
 disingenuously claims to be ‘the only democracy’ in the region. As 
 Americans, we are deeply concerned that the United States continues to 
 isolate itself from world opinion with regard to basic human rights, 
 respect for international law and equal treatment for Palestinians,” 
 continues the letter. \n\n##\n 
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SUMMARY:Protest bulldozer will demolish homes outside ‘Israel lobby’
LOCATION:AIPAC gathering at the Radisson Hotel, 500 Leisure Lane, Sacramento
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/03/18701670.php
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