DEAR SENATOR: Palestinians have requested that international peacekeepers monitor their Israeli-occu- PLACE pied homeland—but Israel has rejected this. Instead, therefore, thousands of volun- You may wish teers from around the world, many of them Jewish, have tried to fill the need. 23¢ “The Israeli government is very suspicious of human rights activists for two reasons,” STAMP explains leading Israeli human rights lawyer Shamai Liebowitz.“They monitor human rights abuses and are able to record severe cases of humiliation and torture by soldiers and set- HERE tlers, and the Israeli government doesn’t want the world to see this.” to send these Since Jan. 4, 2004 the Israeli military’s civil administration has required foreign nationals, including human rights activists, journalists, and NGO workers, to apply for written permission to enter the West Bank and Gaza. It is often denied. Without this permission internationals may be deported or refused re-entry into Israel or the occu- pied territories. As a result Israeli human rights abuses have escalated and gone large- cards to the ly unreported to the outside world. On the anniversary of the brutal attacks on Hurndall, Miller, Avery, and Corrie, please protest Israel’s killing of U.S. and British civilians and contact the Israeli govern- ment to demand that U.S. citizens be granted access to the Palestinian territories. TO: two Senators SENATOR______(name of your Senator) and one U.S. SENATE WASHINGTON, DC 20510 Representative
DEAR SENATOR: Palestinians have requested that international peacekeepers monitor their Israeli-occu- PLACE pied homeland—but Israel has rejected this. Instead, therefore, thousands of volun- teers from around the world, many of them Jewish, have tried to fill the need. 23¢ in whose “The Israeli government is very suspicious of human rights activists for two reasons,” STAMP explains leading Israeli human rights lawyer Shamai Liebowitz.“They monitor human rights abuses and are able to record severe cases of humiliation and torture by soldiers and set- HERE tlers, and the Israeli government doesn’t want the world to see this.” Since Jan. 4, 2004 the Israeli military’s civil administration has required foreign constituencies nationals, including human rights activists, journalists, and NGO workers, to apply for written permission to enter the West Bank and Gaza. It is often denied. Without this permission internationals may be deported or refused re-entry into Israel or the occu- pied territories. As a result Israeli human rights abuses have escalated and gone large- ly unreported to the outside world. you vote. On the anniversary of the brutal attacks on Hurndall, Miller, Avery, and Corrie, please protest Israel’s killing of U.S. and British civilians and contact the Israeli govern- ment to demand that U.S. citizens be granted access to the Palestinian territories. TO: If you can make SENATOR______(name of your Senator) copies you may wish to send one to: U.S. SENATE WASHINGTON, DC 20510 President George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: Washington, DC 20500 Palestinians have requested that international peacekeepers monitor their Israeli-occu- PLACE pied homeland—but Israel has rejected this. Instead, therefore, thousands of volun- teers from around the world, many of them Jewish, have tried to fill the need. 23¢ “The Israeli government is very suspicious of human rights activists for two reasons,” STAMP explains leading Israeli human rights lawyer Shamai Liebowitz.“They monitor human rights abuses and are able to record severe cases of humiliation and torture by soldiers and set- HERE tlers, and the Israeli government doesn’t want the world to see this.” Since Jan. 4, 2004 the Israeli military’s civil administration has required foreign nationals, including human rights activists, journalists, and NGO workers, to apply for written permission to enter the West Bank and Gaza. It is often denied. Without this permission internationals may be deported or refused re-entry into Israel or the occu- pied territories. As a result Israeli human rights abuses have escalated and gone large- ly unreported to the outside world. On the anniversary of the brutal attacks on Hurndall, Miller, Avery, and Corrie, please protest Israel’s killing of U.S. and British civilians and contact the Israeli govern- ment to demand that U.S. citizens be granted access to the Palestinian territories. TO: REPRESENTATIVE______(name of your Representative)
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