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Take Action: Ask Your Representative to Sign On to H.Con.Res.270
May 4, 2010
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To
watch a video of U.S. citizen Tristan Anderson being shot in the head
by the Israeli military with a high-velocity tear gas canister, click here or on the picture above. WARNING: This video is extremely graphic and disturbing. |
Recently, Members of Congress have introduced a rash of resolutions--threatening to cut of funds to UNRWA, praising Israel's Apartheid Wall, deeming it a 'shining model of democratic values,' and justifying its illegal occupation and annexation of East Jerusalem--that
show just how out of touch most of them are when it comes to
understanding the requirements for a just and lasting
Israeli-Palestinian peace. |
But one resolution, H.Con.Res.270, introduced last week by Rep. Barbara Lee, takes a different tack by calling for accountability and a U.S. investigation into Israel's shooting of U.S. citizen Tristan Anderson on March 13, 2009.
On that day, the Israeli military shot Tristan in the forehead
with a high-velocity tear gas canister during an unarmed protest
against Israel's Apartheid Wall in the West Bank village of Ni'lin.
The shooting resulted in Tristan sustaining brain damage; he remains
today in an Israeli hospital.
As we reported on our blog
in February after the Israeli Ministry of Justice declined to file any
indictments in Tristan's case, in FY2007 alone the United States
provided Israel with 121,991 pieces of teargas and riot control agents valued at $1,654,536.
It's very likely that U.S. taxpayers financed, as part of an annual
U.S. military aid appropriation, the very weapons that Israel used to
critically injure U.S. citizen Tristan Anderson, as well as to injure
and kill thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians over the past
decade.
As H.Con.Res.270 states, the United States and Israel must "ensure that any incident of this kind never occurs again". Here's how you can take action to help make that a reality.
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TAKE ACTION
1. Contact your Representative and ask them to "sign on" as a co-sponsor to H.Con.Res.270. Send an email by clicking here or look up the phone number for your Representative on our Congressional District Coordinator (CDC) network map by clicking here.
2. Sign up as an organizer to help us challenge U.S. military aid to Israel.
Help the US Campaign organize pressure on Congress and the White House
to hold Israel accountable for its ongoing misuse of U.S. weapons in
violation of the Arms Export Control Act. Get a packet with postcards
to President Obama, petitions to Congress, fact sheets, and flyers, to
educate and organize people in your community by clicking here.
3. Join our Congressional District Coordinator (CDC) network to
help us change U.S. policy toward Palestine/Israel to support human
rights, international law, and equality. Learn more about our CDC
network, find out who is organizing in your Congressional district, and
sign up to be a coordinator today by clicking here.
4. Learn more about the devastating impact of U.S. military aid to Israel
on Palestinian civilians and how your taxes could be better spent in
your own community by visiting our new, interactive website: www.aidtoisrael.org
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Take Action
1. Ask your Representative to co- sponsor H.Con.Res.270.
2. Help us organize to challenge U.S. military aid to Israel.
3. Join our Congressional District Coordinator (CDC) network.
4. Learn more about U.S. military aid to Israel.
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