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CFL ALERT: NO NEW AID TO ISRAEL
AS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION CONTEMPLATES MORE WELFARE TO ISRAEL, ARIEL SHARON'S GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO VIOLATE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIANS.
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For Immediate Release
January 2, 2003
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CFL ACTION ALERT: AS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION CONTEMPLATES MORE WELFARE TO ISRAEL, ARIEL SHARON'S GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO VIOLATE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIANS.
President Bush is considering a grant to Israel for an additional $14 billion from our tax dollars. The only request that the Bush Administration has is
that Israel not spend this aid on illegal settlements on Palestinian land. Americans of conscience demand that no money be spent on illegal Israeli
settlements OR on funding the violent Israeli apartheid regime. The Israeli government has shown a trend towards torture, humiliation and killing of Palestinians civilians, most of whom were children. Take a moment to let the President know that you do not want your tax dollars spent on a regime that perpetrates such horrific violence against Palestinian children.
TAKE ACTION:
To contact your elected officials see the personal contact information available on: http://cflweb.org/congress_merge_.htm. Please choose the appropriate letter to send!
[After you enter your contact info the appropriate addresses are provided. Simply type, or send our prewritten letter and click send. Be sure to
bookmark this page so you can send ONE LETTER EVERY DAY. We have prewritten letters for your convenience.]
TALKING POINTS
IN THE PAST WEEK ALONE:
* Israeli Occupation soldiers viciously beat Palestinian civilians whose only crime was sitting in a barbershop. Israeli soldiers shaved these
Palestinians heads and then brutally beat them.
* Israeli Occupation Forces savagely beat 14 year-old American citizen, Ahmed Abdel Haq. He was beaten and forced to act as though he was a child suicide bomber. Abdel Haq informed the soldiers he was an American citizen from California, yet they still continued to beat him and made him kneel on the ground pretending as though he were praying. This vicious act was all caught on film, yet the US government refuses to condemn this most barbaric treatment of an American child at the hands of Israeli soldiers.
*Israeli Occupation Forces also beat 18 year-old Palestinian high-school student Amran Abu Hamediye to death as he left a Hebron mosque from his nightly prayers. He was detained by Israeli border police and his badly beaten body was found 20 minutes later.
The past two years have witnessed the death of thousands of Palestinian civilians. The number of Palestinians who have been brutally tortured by
Israel has also been steadily increasing. Still the Bush Administration acts as though the only crime Israel commits is the illegal occupation of Palestinian land. This morally bankrupt foreign policy is biased and unabashedly racist. We must let Bush and the rest of his Administration know
that we do not want our tax dollars supporting illegal settlements OR a violent apartheid regime.
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For Immediate Release
January 2, 2003
**************************
CFL ACTION ALERT: AS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION CONTEMPLATES MORE WELFARE TO ISRAEL, ARIEL SHARON'S GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO VIOLATE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIANS.
President Bush is considering a grant to Israel for an additional $14 billion from our tax dollars. The only request that the Bush Administration has is
that Israel not spend this aid on illegal settlements on Palestinian land. Americans of conscience demand that no money be spent on illegal Israeli
settlements OR on funding the violent Israeli apartheid regime. The Israeli government has shown a trend towards torture, humiliation and killing of Palestinians civilians, most of whom were children. Take a moment to let the President know that you do not want your tax dollars spent on a regime that perpetrates such horrific violence against Palestinian children.
TAKE ACTION:
To contact your elected officials see the personal contact information available on: http://cflweb.org/congress_merge_.htm. Please choose the appropriate letter to send!
[After you enter your contact info the appropriate addresses are provided. Simply type, or send our prewritten letter and click send. Be sure to
bookmark this page so you can send ONE LETTER EVERY DAY. We have prewritten letters for your convenience.]
TALKING POINTS
IN THE PAST WEEK ALONE:
* Israeli Occupation soldiers viciously beat Palestinian civilians whose only crime was sitting in a barbershop. Israeli soldiers shaved these
Palestinians heads and then brutally beat them.
* Israeli Occupation Forces savagely beat 14 year-old American citizen, Ahmed Abdel Haq. He was beaten and forced to act as though he was a child suicide bomber. Abdel Haq informed the soldiers he was an American citizen from California, yet they still continued to beat him and made him kneel on the ground pretending as though he were praying. This vicious act was all caught on film, yet the US government refuses to condemn this most barbaric treatment of an American child at the hands of Israeli soldiers.
*Israeli Occupation Forces also beat 18 year-old Palestinian high-school student Amran Abu Hamediye to death as he left a Hebron mosque from his nightly prayers. He was detained by Israeli border police and his badly beaten body was found 20 minutes later.
The past two years have witnessed the death of thousands of Palestinian civilians. The number of Palestinians who have been brutally tortured by
Israel has also been steadily increasing. Still the Bush Administration acts as though the only crime Israel commits is the illegal occupation of Palestinian land. This morally bankrupt foreign policy is biased and unabashedly racist. We must let Bush and the rest of his Administration know
that we do not want our tax dollars supporting illegal settlements OR a violent apartheid regime.
=====================================================
Citizens for Fair Legislation is a grassroots organization committed to encouraging a fair domestic and foreign policy with an emphasis on the US/Arab world.
contact: contact [at] cflweb.org
web: http://www.cflweb.org
to join: visit cflweb.org and click on JOIN US
For more information:
http://www.cflweb.org
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We the people must let it be known that Americans do NOT want ANY of their money going to apartheid Israel, PERIOD. Not until it becomes a true democracy with equal rights for all regardless of religion, ethnicity or sex including the right to return of all 5.5 million Palestinian refugees to their ancestral home of Palestine-Israel which is their right according to UN Resolutions, International Law and world opinion.
When: Jan. 15, 2003
Where: In front of Congresswoman's office building at 1301 Clay St. and Oakland @ 12 St. (the Federal Building, the twin towers)
Time: 4 pm to 5:30 pm
How appropriate that we are having our FIRST (note FIRST, this WILL be an on-going effort) rally on Martin Luther King's real birthday of Jan. 15 (addressing the racism in Israel) and it's near TAX TIME (addressing what our tax dollars are supporting in apartheid Israel and it's campaign of ethnic cleansing and slow genocide,) AND on top of that its in front of twin towers! We believe that the twin towers of the WTC got hit on 9/11 as a direct result of our country's unjust foreign affairs policies, especially in Israel, supporting its racist, unjust war to gain more land against the indigenous Palestinian people with our tax dollars! We say NOT in our names, and NOT with our money!
Please come join us! We must let our leaders know how we feel!
When: Jan. 15, 2003
Where: In front of Congresswoman's office building at 1301 Clay St. and Oakland @ 12 St. (the Federal Building, the twin towers)
Time: 4 pm to 5:30 pm
How appropriate that we are having our FIRST (note FIRST, this WILL be an on-going effort) rally on Martin Luther King's real birthday of Jan. 15 (addressing the racism in Israel) and it's near TAX TIME (addressing what our tax dollars are supporting in apartheid Israel and it's campaign of ethnic cleansing and slow genocide,) AND on top of that its in front of twin towers! We believe that the twin towers of the WTC got hit on 9/11 as a direct result of our country's unjust foreign affairs policies, especially in Israel, supporting its racist, unjust war to gain more land against the indigenous Palestinian people with our tax dollars! We say NOT in our names, and NOT with our money!
Please come join us! We must let our leaders know how we feel!
"We must let our leaders know how we feel!"
I just wrote letters to my reps., senators, and president in support of increasing aid to Israel.
I just wrote letters to my reps., senators, and president in support of increasing aid to Israel.
It sure seems as if all the fire power in the world wont stop
a terrorist incident unless:
You kill all the potential terrorists ( genocide )
You build the ultimate wall around yourself (isolation )
Is this easier than brotherhood and cooperation?
a terrorist incident unless:
You kill all the potential terrorists ( genocide )
You build the ultimate wall around yourself (isolation )
Is this easier than brotherhood and cooperation?
If you are FOR any more aid to Israel, then you give yourself away as both a racist and not a true American patriot.
Go live in Israel and don't let the door hit you on the way out! And don't expect ME, a true American patriot who puts Americans' ideals and interests first and foremost, to provide ANY of my tax dollars to support YOU and your racist, anti-democratic, apartheid, Jewish supremacist, disgustingly immoral country!
Go live in Israel and don't let the door hit you on the way out! And don't expect ME, a true American patriot who puts Americans' ideals and interests first and foremost, to provide ANY of my tax dollars to support YOU and your racist, anti-democratic, apartheid, Jewish supremacist, disgustingly immoral country!
the causes I believe in and you support yours. I'm far from racist and the reps. I write know this by my credentials. I have no reason to move to Israel, I'm an American. However, unlike yourself I do not believe in "America First." That would make me a nationalist.
Go to Israel and live in hell and keep it there. We TRUE American patriots are cutting Israel and its supporters like you loose! Good riddance to all Zionists who place Israel above America's best interests!!!!!
By the way, I am proud to American and American only (although I am not proud of the current Zionist-run government). You are obviously a Zionist Jew who thinks of Israel as your true homeland and you are just using America to fund your disgustingly racist Israel. I say LEAVE AMERICA then! YOU are not a true patriot. NOR do you believe in equal rights for all---that's only here in America that do you say you believe in equal rights because it suits your purposes as a minority (thank God!) Zionist Jew. You obviously don't believe in equal rights for all in Israel!!!! YOU are a racist AND a hypocrite!!!!!!
By the way, I am proud to American and American only (although I am not proud of the current Zionist-run government). You are obviously a Zionist Jew who thinks of Israel as your true homeland and you are just using America to fund your disgustingly racist Israel. I say LEAVE AMERICA then! YOU are not a true patriot. NOR do you believe in equal rights for all---that's only here in America that do you say you believe in equal rights because it suits your purposes as a minority (thank God!) Zionist Jew. You obviously don't believe in equal rights for all in Israel!!!! YOU are a racist AND a hypocrite!!!!!!
Far better to be a nationalist than a (ugh) Zionist!!!!!
Thanks for stating the obvious to the knuckleheads Nessie.
Especially the dunce who wrote:
"Far better to be a nationalist than a (ugh) Zionist!!!!!"
Zionism is by definition nationalism. I am not a Zionist or any type of nationalist. However, given Israels neighbors I feel I am justifed in calling for continuing support to the state of Israel.
"We TRUE American patriots are cutting Israel and its supporters like you loose! Good riddance to all Zionists who place Israel above America's best interests!!!!!"
True American patriots? Ya'all sound like neo-fascists to me. I'm not an isolationist but an internationalist. I think the borders with Mexico for instance should be more open and that if we allow a free flow of capital there should be a free flow of labor. I certainly don't believe in any kind of xeonophobic notion of "America First" or similar nonsense.
Whoever made this ignorant comment:
"You are obviously a Zionist Jew who thinks of Israel as your true homeland and you are just using America to fund your disgustingly racist Israel."
is a fucking idiot. My grandparents were immigrants to this country and I was born here. That makes me American whether I am Mexican, black, white, Asian, Jewish, Muslim, or any other race, creed, or ethnicity. I work with immigrants to secure their citizenship in this country.
I suspect one person made all these comments given the vitriol and general lack of intelligence. If you want to take issue with my position vis a vis the state of Israel based on the treatment of Palestinians or for any other reason tha's your prerogative. But to write that anyone who supports Israel is "Zionist Jew" makes you sound like a Nazi. It's no wonder that so many people link anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
Especially the dunce who wrote:
"Far better to be a nationalist than a (ugh) Zionist!!!!!"
Zionism is by definition nationalism. I am not a Zionist or any type of nationalist. However, given Israels neighbors I feel I am justifed in calling for continuing support to the state of Israel.
"We TRUE American patriots are cutting Israel and its supporters like you loose! Good riddance to all Zionists who place Israel above America's best interests!!!!!"
True American patriots? Ya'all sound like neo-fascists to me. I'm not an isolationist but an internationalist. I think the borders with Mexico for instance should be more open and that if we allow a free flow of capital there should be a free flow of labor. I certainly don't believe in any kind of xeonophobic notion of "America First" or similar nonsense.
Whoever made this ignorant comment:
"You are obviously a Zionist Jew who thinks of Israel as your true homeland and you are just using America to fund your disgustingly racist Israel."
is a fucking idiot. My grandparents were immigrants to this country and I was born here. That makes me American whether I am Mexican, black, white, Asian, Jewish, Muslim, or any other race, creed, or ethnicity. I work with immigrants to secure their citizenship in this country.
I suspect one person made all these comments given the vitriol and general lack of intelligence. If you want to take issue with my position vis a vis the state of Israel based on the treatment of Palestinians or for any other reason tha's your prerogative. But to write that anyone who supports Israel is "Zionist Jew" makes you sound like a Nazi. It's no wonder that so many people link anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
Instead of giving a single penny to the illegitimate apartheid regime of Israel, let's spend that money on American COMPANIES like UNITED. I am repulsed that my elected officials would rather give welfare to the apartheid state of Israel instead of giving it to American companies. It's time to stop bailing out these baby killing Israeli thugs and to start re-investing in America.
Obviously, "write your reps", you are a Zionist Jew! Yeah, go ahead,write your reps, like AIPAC.
American's are catching on to Zionist Jews usurping our taxes for racst, apartheid Israel, and as I said, we are going to cut Israel and all its Zionist loose. Adios. And don't let the door hit you on the way out. Good riddance to racist Zionist phoney Americans. Get lost.
American's are catching on to Zionist Jews usurping our taxes for racst, apartheid Israel, and as I said, we are going to cut Israel and all its Zionist loose. Adios. And don't let the door hit you on the way out. Good riddance to racist Zionist phoney Americans. Get lost.
And just how much of Your tax dollars we are talking about here? Probably not even enough to afford one WW I bazooka , looser .
The bazooka was invented in WWII. Named after
a noise maker employed by a comedian.
And BTW the money given to kill the Palestinians
sure would go nice to fund AFDC, Head Start
school lunch programs and other programs right here.
If they want to go to hell we don’t have to hold them
on their way there while we pay for the ride.
a noise maker employed by a comedian.
And BTW the money given to kill the Palestinians
sure would go nice to fund AFDC, Head Start
school lunch programs and other programs right here.
If they want to go to hell we don’t have to hold them
on their way there while we pay for the ride.
Why in the world would the US send money to help out the murderous Israeli regime and their Nazi like hooligan settlers that glorify racism and hatred in all of its ugly manifestations when that money can be used here at home?
No more aid to the treacherous Israeli state until Zionists learn how to love peace more than land.
No more aid to the treacherous Israeli state until Zionists learn how to love peace more than land.
Why ? The answer is just around the corner , boys and girls.
The reason why we offer support to Israel is because their mafia like Zionist PAC groups use money to corrupt our politicians. Greed is a mortal sin. Greed is leading this country to hell and Israeli greed is costing this world to be a dangerous place.
Mossad, you stay in Israel, OK? Your stinking racist country that has been sucking America into its hell for far too long. We say NO MORE US AID TO APARTHEID ISRAEL!
I wonder why mainstream newspapers haven't reported the $14 BILLION that Israel wants on top of the $6 billion or so it already got of our tax dollars this year alone!
I don't want even one penny of mine to go to support racist, apartheid Israel, you loser!
We Americans don't want Palestinian blood on our hands because of your ethnic cleansing!
American Jews should be happy just to be American and have America as your homeland like the rest of Americans. Cut Israel as a Jewish supremacist state loose or go there and stay there. But don't drag US into YOUR unjust racist, hellish, apartheid, fascist, country's unjust war against the Palestinians!
I wonder why mainstream newspapers haven't reported the $14 BILLION that Israel wants on top of the $6 billion or so it already got of our tax dollars this year alone!
I don't want even one penny of mine to go to support racist, apartheid Israel, you loser!
We Americans don't want Palestinian blood on our hands because of your ethnic cleansing!
American Jews should be happy just to be American and have America as your homeland like the rest of Americans. Cut Israel as a Jewish supremacist state loose or go there and stay there. But don't drag US into YOUR unjust racist, hellish, apartheid, fascist, country's unjust war against the Palestinians!
Mossad, you stay in Israel, OK? Your stinking racist country that has been sucking America into its hell for far too long. We say NO MORE US AID TO APARTHEID ISRAEL!
I wonder why mainstream newspapers haven't reported the $14 BILLION that Israel wants on top of the $6 billion or so it already got of our tax dollars this year alone!
I don't want even one penny of mine to go to support racist, apartheid Israel, you loser!
We Americans don't want Palestinian blood on our hands because of your ethnic cleansing!
American Jews should be happy just to be American and have America as your homeland like the rest of Americans. Cut Israel as a Jewish supremacist state loose or go there and stay there. But don't drag US into YOUR unjust racist, hellish, apartheid, fascist, country's unjust war against the Palestinians!
I wonder why mainstream newspapers haven't reported the $14 BILLION that Israel wants on top of the $6 billion or so it already got of our tax dollars this year alone!
I don't want even one penny of mine to go to support racist, apartheid Israel, you loser!
We Americans don't want Palestinian blood on our hands because of your ethnic cleansing!
American Jews should be happy just to be American and have America as your homeland like the rest of Americans. Cut Israel as a Jewish supremacist state loose or go there and stay there. But don't drag US into YOUR unjust racist, hellish, apartheid, fascist, country's unjust war against the Palestinians!
Mossad, you stay in Israel, OK? Your stinking racist country that has been sucking America into its hell for far too long. We say NO MORE US AID TO APARTHEID ISRAEL!
I wonder why mainstream newspapers haven't reported the $14 BILLION that Israel wants on top of the $6 billion or so it already got of our tax dollars this year alone!
I don't want even one penny of mine to go to support racist, apartheid Israel, you loser!
We Americans don't want Palestinian blood on our hands because of your ethnic cleansing!
American Jews should be happy just to be American and have America as your homeland like the rest of Americans. Cut Israel as a Jewish supremacist state loose or go there and stay there. But don't drag US into YOUR unjust racist, hellish, apartheid, fascist, country's unjust war against the Palestinians!
I wonder why mainstream newspapers haven't reported the $14 BILLION that Israel wants on top of the $6 billion or so it already got of our tax dollars this year alone!
I don't want even one penny of mine to go to support racist, apartheid Israel, you loser!
We Americans don't want Palestinian blood on our hands because of your ethnic cleansing!
American Jews should be happy just to be American and have America as your homeland like the rest of Americans. Cut Israel as a Jewish supremacist state loose or go there and stay there. But don't drag US into YOUR unjust racist, hellish, apartheid, fascist, country's unjust war against the Palestinians!
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