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[Philippe Charles Saad]

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>Dear Advocate of a Just Foreign Policy,
>
>Representative Kucinich has introduced a resolution
>calling for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon. The
>resolution has more than 20 cosponsors. To ask your
>representative to cosponsor, you can use the
>following link:
>
>
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/justforeignpolicy.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=4697
>
>To see the list of current cosponsors, you can use this
>link:
>
>http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HC00450:@@@P
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>Robert Naiman
>Just Foreign Policy
>www.justforeignpolicy.org
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>Greetings. Robert Naiman of the newly formed Just
>Foreign Policy and I have initiated a sign-on letter
>from American Jews to President Bush calling for an
>immediate ceasefire in Lebanon. Please forward where
>appropriate. The link follows and then the text.
>
>Robert Weissman
>
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>
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http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/justforeignpolicy.org/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=319
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>Dear President Bush:
>
>As American Jews, we are horrified by your apparent
>support for the bombing and destruction of Lebanon, and
>your opposition to international demands for an
>immediate ceasefire.
>
>We condemn the violence by all sides, especially against
>civilians. But we cannot accept your attempt to justify
>and abet the collective punishment of the people of
>Lebanon -- including thousands of Americans trapped
>there -- as part of "Israel's right to defend herself."
>
>The vast majority of Lebanese now suffering the
>destruction of their country, along with hundreds of
>civilian deaths from the Israeli bombing campaign, had
>nothing to do with Hizbollah's attacks on Israeli
>soldiers, nor subsequent rocket attacks on Israeli
>cities.
>
>The same is true in Gaza, where the capture of Israeli
>Corporal Gilad Shalit on June 25 -- the original alleged
>pretext for Israel's incursions and detention of the
>territory's elected leaders -- was preceded just the day
>before by the abduction of two Palestinian civilians
>from their home by Israeli forces, as reported by Gideon
>Levy in the Israeli daily Haaretz. Here, too, it is
>wrong to portray this ever-widening conflict as a "war
>against terrorism." According to the Israeli human
>rights organization B'tselem, more than 100 Palestinians
>who were not engaged in hostile actions were killed by
>Israeli forces since Israel withdrew from Gaza, and
>before the recent escalation of violence.
>
>The idea that the cycle of violence will come to an end
>by means of more violence, and especially attacks on
>civilian areas, is wrong and immoral.
>
>We ask you to support an immediate cease-fire and a
>negotiated solution to the conflict.
>
>Sincerely,


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Philippe Charles Saad
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