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For Immediate Release
January 20, 2004
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CFL ACTION ALERT: SHARON ADMITS APARTHEID WALL HARMS PALESTINIANS
TALKING POINTS
*Despite knowledge that the apartheid wall is devastating Palestinian lives,
Sharon refuses to amend the route so that it follows pre-1967 established
borders. Sources close to Sharon say that the prime minister will not change
the route of the fence where it intrudes into Palestinian territory, nor will
he finish it along the Green Line. This wall is a concerted effort to murder
any hope of a viable Palestinian state and is a deliberate attempt to strangle
the Palestinian population into submission, then death. Demand an explanation
from your representatives as to why they remain silent while this genocide
unfolds before their very eyes.
*Last week, 15 bishops from Europe and the Americas met in Jerusalem and
condemned the wall by saying: "We have seen the devastating effect of the wall
currently being built through the land and homes of Palestinian communities
…This appears to be a permanent structure, dividing families, isolating them
from their farmland and their livelihoods, and cutting off religious
institutions.” The bishops also reported that "some priests, seminarians,
sisters, brothers, and lay personnel are being denied or are having
difficulties in obtaining visas and residence permits to study and work in
Israel and the Palestinian territories." Remind your representatives that they
regularly defend their support of Israel by claiming Israel is a democracy,
the citizens of which have freedom of religion. Ask why it is more important
for Jews in Israel to have freedom of religion than it is for Christians and
Muslims in the Holy Land to enjoy this basic human right.
*Tell your representatives that the very 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.
*Remind your representatives that Israel is repeatedly violating U.N.
Resolutions with its continued building of the apartheid wall. 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. Such action proves
that Israel can, and will, violate any U.N. Resolutions it pleases without
being held accountable by Washington.
*Tell your representatives that as long as this government sits idly by and
allows Israel to ethnically cleanse the region of Palestinians through
starvation and transfer, we cannot claim the moral high-ground anywhere in the
world, nor can we claim that we support democracy and freedom. Democracy and
freedom are an anathema to everything that Israel stands for.
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