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Citizens for Fair Legislation
For Immediate Release
March 3, 2005
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CFL ALERT: ASK YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO DEMAND IMMEDIATE ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL
FROM PALESTINIAN LAND.
Recently Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stated that he only agreed to
leave Gaza because he received assurances from President Bush that Israel
could retain large swaths of land in the West Bank. This week Israeli
officials have gone on record as saying that Settlers can move from Gaza to
the West Bank. Because the bulk of Israeli settlements are in the West Bank,
in effect the Israeli disengagement plan is not disengagement at all but
rather a transfer of Israelis from illegal settlements in Gaza to illegal
settlements in
the West Bank. Tell your representatives that U.S. sanctioned settlement
expansion in the West Bank negates the evacuation from Gaza and the two-state
solution, leaving the one state solution as the only viable option.
TALKING POINTS:
*Palestinians have long been skeptical of Israeli plans to leave Gaza because
they believed it was a ruse to cement Israel's grip on the West Bank and deny
the Palestinians a viable state- They were correct. Prime Minister Sharon and
other Israeli officials are saying publicly that they have received assurances
from Washington that in return for
evacuating Gaza they can keep large portions of land in the West Bank.
Currently, there are 8,000 settlers in Gaza and over 400,000 living in the
West Bank. If Israel was serious about making peace, Sharon would begin
disengaging from the West Bank instead of making plans to transfer 8000
settlers to the West Bank. Tell your representatives that Israeli facts on the
ground in
illegally appropriated Palestinian land have all but destroyed American and
Palestinian hopes for a two state solution and that the only viable solution
is to support one democratic state with equal social
and human rights for Palestinians and Israelis.
*Tell your representative that Israeli intransigence remains unchecked because
this country continues to coddle the Israeli regime as they defy international
law, the United Nations, the International Court of Justice and now even
agreements they have reached with the Bush
administration. When President Bush told Sharon that Israel could retain some
West Bank land under any peace deals with Palestinians, he gave Sharon a green
light to continue stealing Palestinian land and he made a mockery out of the
Israeli evacuation of the Gaza Strip. Ask your representatives to support
legislation declaring the settlements illegal and a major impediment to peace.
*Israeli hegemony in the Middle East continues to threaten U.S. security and
U.S. standing in the international community. It is time to separate our
support for Israel from our political reality in
Washington; Israeli lobbyists in D.C. have hindered Mideast policy for far too
long. Tell your representatives that it is incomprehensible that we continue
to destroy our credibility throughout the world and put American lives at risk
for the sake of an apartheid nation.
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