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CITIZENS FOR FAIR LEGISLATION
For Immediate Release
April 1, 2004
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4/1/04 CFL ALERT: CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND ASK THEM NOT TO SUPPORT
H.Con.Res.371.
On 2/26/04 Rep Pence, Mike [IN-6] introduced 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.” So far 134 members
of the U.S. Congress stand in arrogant defiance of international, humanitarian
law and against the policies of every U.S. administration by signing on as
co-sponsors of this racist resolution. This resolution has now been referred
to the House Committee on International Relations. Email your representatives
and the Bush administration and ask that they publicly oppose this resolution.
Below is the list of House members that sit on the House Committee on
International Relations, if your representative sits on the HCIR call, email
and fax them and ask that they oppose H.Con.Res. 371.
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.
*Ask your representatives to 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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Henry J. Hyde-Illinois, 6th District
James A. Leach, Iowa, 2nd District
Tom Lantos, California, 12th District
Doug Bereuter, Nebraska, 1st District
Howard L. Berman, California, 28th District
Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey, 4th District
Gary L. Ackerman, New York, 5th District
Dan Burton, Indiana, 5th District
Eni F. H. Faleomavaega, American Samoa
Elton Gallegly, California, 24th District
Donald M. Payne, New Jersey, 10th District
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida, 18th District
Robert Menendez, New Jersey, 13th District
Cass Ballenger, North Carolina, 10th District
Sherrod Brown, Ohio, 13th District
Dana Rohrabacher, California, 46th District
Brad Sherman, California, 27th District
Edward R. Royce,California, 40th District
Robert Wexler, Florida, 19th District
Peter T. King New York, 3rd District
Eliot L. Engel, New York, 17th District
Steve Chabot, Ohio, 1st District
William D. Delahunt, MA 10th District
Amo Houghton, New York, 29th District
Gregory W. Meeks, New York, 6th District
John M. McHugh, New York, 23rd District
Barbara Lee, California, 9th District
Roy Blunt, Missouri, 7th District
Joseph Crowley, New York, 7th District
Thomas G. Tancredo, Colorado, 6th District
Joseph M. Hoeffel, Pennsylvania, 13th District
Ron Paul,Texas, 14th District
Earl Blumenauer, Oregon, 3rd District
Nick Smith, MI, 7th District
Shelley Berkley, Nevada, 1st District
Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania, 16th District
Grace F. Napolitano, California, 38th District
Jeff Flake, Arizona, 6th District
Adam B. Schiff, California, 29th District
Jo Ann Davis, VA 1st District
Diane E. Watson, California, 33rd District
Mark Green, Wisconsin, 8th District
Adam Smith, Washington, 9th District
Jerry Weller, Illinois, 11th District
Betty McCollum, Minnesota, 4th District
Mike Pence, Indiana, 6th District
Chris Bell, Texas, 25th District
Thaddeus G. McCotter , MI, 11th District
Katherine Harris, Florida, 13th District
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