Call to Action
If you can help, here's what the Palestine-Israel Action Committee is asking you to do today:
1. Call any of the below offices and demand the following:
- An immediate cessation of all violence, whether perpetrated by Israelis or Palestinians;
- The end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and diversion of water resources;
- An immediate freeze both on the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and on the Israeli acquisition of Palestinian land and buildings in East Jerusalem;
- The relocation by Israel of the Separation Barrier to the 1967 border;
- The withholding of U.S. government aid to the state of Israel as long as Israel persists in creating new West Bank settlements;
- A shared status for Jerusalem;
- Equal rights for Palestinian & non-Jewish citizens of the state of Israel;
- The cessation of systematic violation of human rights by any party, specifically: practices of administrative detention, collective punishment, the torture of prisoners and suspects, home demolitions and evictions, and the deportation of dissidents;
- The immediate resumption by Israel and Palestine of negotiations toward providing security, justice, and viable state-hood for both peoples.
Sam Farr's office, (831)429-1976 & 202-225-2861
Anna Eshoo's office, (408) 245-2339
Barbara Boxer's office, (202) 224-3553
Diane Feinstein's office, (202) 224-3841
White House switchboard, (202) 456-1414
3. Spread the word, contact as many of your friends as possible and ask them to call their elected representatives.
The American public does not want to their tax dollars supporting the oppression and ethnic cleansing that has been and is going on in the Israel/Palestine Conflict.