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For Tuesday April 2 - Nationwide White House Call-in/Email Campaign on Palestine
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Middle East Children's Alliance
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Please participate in the following actions tomorrow initiated by ADC and Middle East Children's Alliance. It'll take only 3 minutes of your time. It is so important that we act in our own capacity, even limited, to protest against what has become a mass genocide that no governments are willing to intervene with.
Items to follow:
1. Nationwide White House Call-in/Email Campaign (ADC Action Alert)
2. Sample letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell
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1. ADC Action Alert:
Nationwide White House Call-In/Email Campaign on Palestine Tomorrow
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ADC strongly urges all its members and supporters to join a nationwide call-in/email campaign to the White House tomorrow, Tuesday, April 2, between the hours of 9 AM and 9 PM eastern time, to protest Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinians and to demand an end to the illegal Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Remember that the White House will take a tally of all calls and e-mails it receives, so every single call you make or email you send counts. Although originally initiated by ADC's Chicago chapter, this is now a nationwide campaign, so expect lines to be busy and please keep trying until you get through. This is the least we can do to show our support and solidarity with the Palestinian people who are being subjected to around-the-clock Israeli aggression. So alert your family and friends to join you tomorrow, in what will only take a few minutes of your time, but will mean so much.
WHITE HOUSE CONTACT INFORMATION:
Email: president@whitehouse.gov <mailto:president@whitehouse.gov>
Tel: 202-456-1111 (Public comment line where you can leave a message)
Tel: 202-456-1414 (President's Office)
Fax: 202-456-2461
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 today. Resolution1402 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 over1,200 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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2. Sample letter of protest to Colin Powell
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[date]
To U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
secretary@state.gov
Secretary Powell,
I am writing to urge the United States to immediately implement UN Security
Council Resolution 1402, passed last week with the support of the United
States, requiring the immediate withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces
from Palestinian towns and cities, especially Ramallah.
Openly defying the will of international community,
Israel is continuing its widespread attacks against the entire Palestinian
population including medical facilities and personnel.
Israeli occupation forces are currently attacking
the headquarters of the Medical Relief Committees in Ramallah. The Haaretz
website reported at 6 PM local time that:
"The Ramallah headquarters of the Medical Relief
Committees came under heavy fire. Using megaphones, Israeli troops ordered
all the building's inhabitants out, including the medical staff, resident
families, and a group of Italian peace activists. Head of the Medical Relief
Committees, Dr Mustafa Barghouti told Ha'aretz that all those who had left
the building were made to stand against the walls with their hands up."
The website added that "the organization is the
most important non-governmental Palestinian group, providing medical assistance,
treatment and first-aid to Palestinians. Its work is especially important
at the moment as the Palestinian Red Crescent Society cannot reach all
Palestinians injured in the city due to IDF roadblocks." (IDF shells medical
organization's Ramallah headquarters, Haaretz, April 1, 2002)
This attack constitutes a direct and grave breach
of the Fourth Geneva Convention and UN Security Council Resolutions 1402
and 1322 among many others.
I urge you to immediately deny press reports which
say that the United States has given Israel a "green light" to continue
its rampage in the occupied territories. If these reports are true, then
it would mean that the United States has given its support to overt, grave
breaches of international law, and even war crimes.
I urge you to declare clearly, in English and in
Hebrew, that the quickest and only route to ending all the violence is
to end Israel's military occupation and rule of terror against millions
of Palestinians, and to demand that Israel immediately accept the Arab
League peace plan for a political settlement in accordance with international
law.
Yours,
[your name]
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Middle East Children's Alliance
P.O. Box 250706, New York, NY 10025
Tel/Fax: 212-666-8512
www.mecaforpeace.org
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