Say No To H.Con.Res.371!

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For Immediate Release
March 4, 2004
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3/4/04 CFL ALERT: CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND ASK THEM NOT TO SUPPORT H.Con.Res.371.

On 2/26/04 House Concurrent Resolution 371: “Supporting the construction by Israel of a security fence to prevent Palestinian terrorist attacks and condemning the decision by the United Nations General Assembly to request the International Court of Justice to render an opinion on the legality of the security fence” was introduced by Rep.Mike Pence (R-IN) to the House. So far 87 members of the U.S. Congress stand in defiance on international and humanitarian law by signing on as co-sponsors of this resolution. Email your representatives and ask that they not cosponsor H.Con.Res.371. If your representative has already cosponsored this resolution, ask that they rescind support for it.

TALKING POINTS:
*Remind your representatives that Israel’s apartheid wall violates international and humanitarian law and has already been condemned by the United Nations. Ask your representative to condemn the continued theft of Palestinian land and ask them to hold Israel accountable to international and humanitarian law for crimes against Palestinians.

*If your representative has co-sponsored this resolution (see below) ask them to explain why they support the continued violation of the Palestinians’ human rights. Ask your representatives why they do not support the American paradigm of freedom and democracy for the Palestinians. Remind them that the precepts of democracy demand that they condemn land expropriations, home demolitions, illegal arrests, beatings, torture and the continued murder of Palestinian civilians. Ask that they condemn continued Israeli defiance of UN resolutions, the flouting of the Geneva Convention; and the decades of legal and social discrimination against the Arab population within Israel.

*Ask your representatives to hold Israel accountable to the law and that you disapprove of the willingness of the American government to ignore Israeli UN violations and Israeli human rights violations. Ask your representatives not to support an apartheid wall that is being built on land that is stolen from the Palestinians, this wall will confiscate 45% of the West Bank. Remind your representatives that U.N. Resolution 252 calls on Israel to stop taking measures to unify Jerusalem as the Jewish capital, yet Israel is building its wall around Jerusalem. H.Con.Res.371 proves that this government is aiding Israel in its continued crimes against the Palestinian people.

*Tell your representatives that the survival of the Palestinian people depends on the elimination of the apartheid wall. Farmers are being cut off of their land and are thus being denied the ability to work and feed their families. The United Nations and the World Bank have issued extensive reports about the rampant malnourishment and the epidemic of anemia in the territories caused by the strangling of Palestinian society by the Israeli Occupation Forces. We cannot tolerate the deliberate starvation of an entire people.

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CO_SPONSORS FOR H.Con.Res.371
Rep Akin, W. Todd - 2/26/2004 [MO-2]
Rep Alexander, Rodney - 3/1/2004 [LA-5]
Rep Baker, Richard H. - 3/2/2004 [LA-6]
Rep Barrett, J. Gresham - 2/26/2004 [SC-3]
Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. - 2/26/2004 [MD-6]
Rep Beauprez, Bob - 2/26/2004 [CO-7]
Rep Berkley, Shelley - 2/26/2004 [NV-1]
Rep Berman, Howard L. - 3/1/2004 [CA-28]
Rep Blackburn, Marsha - 2/26/2004 [TN-7]
Rep Blunt, Roy - 2/26/2004 [MO-7]
Rep Brown, Henry E., Jr. - 2/26/2004 [SC-1]
Rep Brown-Waite, Ginny - 3/1/2004 [FL-5]
Rep Burns, Max - 3/1/2004 [GA-12]
Rep Burr, Richard - 3/1/2004 [NC-5]
Rep Cantor, Eric - 2/26/2004 [VA-7]
Rep Cardoza, Dennis A. - 2/26/2004 [CA-18]
Rep Chabot, Steve - 2/26/2004 [OH-1]
Rep Chandler, Ben - 2/26/2004 [KY-6]
Rep Cole, Tom - 3/2/2004 [OK-4]
Rep Crane, Philip M. - 2/26/2004 [IL-8]
Rep Crenshaw, Ander - 2/26/2004 [FL-4]
Rep Crowley, Joseph - 2/26/2004 [NY-7]
Rep Culberson, John Abney - 3/1/2004 [TX-7]
Rep Davis, Artur - 2/26/2004 [AL-7]
Rep Davis, Jo Ann - 2/26/2004 [VA-1]
Rep DeMint, Jim - 2/26/2004 [SC-4]
Rep Diaz-Balart, Mario - 2/26/2004 [FL-25]
Rep Doolittle, John T. - 2/26/2004 [CA-4]
Rep Emanuel, Rahm - 2/26/2004 [IL-5]
Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 3/2/2004 [NY-17]
Rep Feeney, Tom - 2/26/2004 [FL-24]
Rep Ferguson, Mike - 2/26/2004 [NJ-7]
Rep Flake, Jeff - 2/26/2004 [AZ-6]
Rep Franks, Trent - 2/26/2004 [AZ-2]
Rep Frost, Martin - 2/26/2004 [TX-24]
Rep Garrett, Scott - 2/26/2004 [NJ-5]
Rep Gingrey, Phil - 3/2/2004 [GA-11]
Rep Goode, Virgil H., Jr. - 2/26/2004 [VA-5]
Rep Harris, Katherine - 2/26/2004 [FL-13]
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. - 2/26/2004 [FL-23]
Rep Hayworth, J. D. - 2/26/2004 [AZ-5]
Rep Hensarling, Jeb - 2/26/2004 [TX-5]
Rep Herger, Wally - 2/26/2004 [CA-2]
Rep Israel, Steve - 2/26/2004 [NY-2]
Rep Istook, Ernest J., Jr. - 3/2/2004 [OK-5]
Rep Johnson, Sam - 2/26/2004 [TX-3]
Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. - 2/26/2004 [NC-3]
Rep Kelly, Sue W. - 2/26/2004 [NY-19]
Rep Kennedy, Mark R. - 2/26/2004 [MN-6]
Rep King, Steve - 2/26/2004 [IA-5]
Rep Lantos, Tom - 2/26/2004 [CA-12]
Rep Linder, John - 2/26/2004 [GA-7]
Rep McNulty, Michael R. - 2/26/2004 [NY-21]
Rep Miller, Jeff - 2/26/2004 [FL-1]
Rep Musgrave, Marilyn N. - 2/26/2004 [CO-4]
Rep Myrick, Sue - 2/26/2004 [NC-9]
Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 2/26/2004 [NY-8]
Rep Neugebauer, Randy - 3/1/2004 [TX-19]
Rep Northup, Anne - 3/2/2004 [KY-3]
Rep Norwood, Charlie - 2/26/2004 [GA-9]
Rep Nunes, Devin - 2/26/2004 [CA-21]
Rep Otter, C. L. (Butch) - 2/26/2004 [ID-1]
Rep Rehberg, Dennis R. - 2/26/2004 [MT]
Rep Ryun, Jim - 2/26/2004 [KS-2]
Rep Sandlin, Max - 2/26/2004 [TX-1]
Rep Saxton, Jim - 2/26/2004 [NJ-3]
Rep Schiff, Adam B. - 2/26/2004 [CA-29]
Rep Schrock, Edward L. - 2/26/2004 [VA-2]
Rep Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. - 2/26/2004 [WI-5]
Rep Sessions, Pete - 2/26/2004 [TX-32]
Rep Shadegg, John B. - 2/26/2004 [AZ-3]
Rep Sherman, Brad - 2/26/2004 [CA-27]
Rep Shimkus, John - 2/26/2004 [IL-19]
Rep Simmons, Rob - 3/1/2004 [CT-2]
Rep Simpson, Michael K. - 3/1/2004 [ID-2]
Rep Smith, Christopher H. - 2/26/2004 [NJ-4]
Rep Smith, Nick - 2/26/2004 [MI-7]
Rep Souder, Mark E. - 2/26/2004 [IN-3]
Rep Stearns, Cliff - 2/26/2004 [FL-6]
Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. - 2/26/2004 [CO-6]
Rep Tiahrt, Todd - 2/26/2004 [KS-4]
Rep Vitter, David - 3/1/2004 [LA-1]
Rep Weldon, Dave - 2/26/2004 [FL-15]
Rep Weller, Jerry - 2/26/2004 [IL-11]
Rep Wexler, Robert - 3/1/2004 [FL-19]
Rep Wilson, Joe - 2/26/2004 [SC-2]
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 2/26/2004 [MD-4]