from Dorothy in Israel

Please consider signing this petition. Israel today bombed a mosque when people were at prayer and killed 10-13 individuals. Israeli ground troops have this evening entered the Gaza strip. Please help stop the massacre and the suffering, and also the suffering of Israeli citizens. There is no symmetry between the two sides, but some Israelis are also suffering because of their governments blindness and avariciousness. Please sign the petition and consider calling for sanctions on Israel. The Hamas has repeatedly said that it would stop firing missiles if Israel stopped its siege on Gaza. There was no reason for this war against a mainly civilian population. Israel, the 4th most powerful military force in the world, is using the full force of its might against militants who have no airplanes nor most of the weapons that Israel has. It is Goliath pitting his full force against a people who have long been living in misery. Please do all you can to stop this war. NOW!
Thanks,
Dorothy

URGENT!

The International Action Center is mobilizing for demonstrations across the U.S. to stop the attack on Gaza, and we are networking with activists across the globe who are taking to the streets against U.S./Israeli war crimes. To view a roundup of the growing number of international actions, see: http://www.iacenter.org/palestine/gazademos123108.

Please consider making an emergency donation at http://www.iacenter.org/donate
to help with the costs of organizing and mobilizing.

NYC: Gaza Massacre: Emergency Demonstration - Sat. Jan. 3, 1 pm, Times Square

Emergency Demo in Boston, Sat, Jan 3: Stop the US/Israeli Attack on Gaza!

LA event Friday at 4:30 pm at the Israeli Consulate at 6380 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles

Solidarity with heroic Gaza: Statement from the International Action Center - Dec. 27, 2008 / also en Español

Video: Support for Gaza!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4hejAqOUMY&feature=channel_page

THE PETITION

Urgent Appeal for Israel to Immediately Cease Its Murderous Bombing, Siege and Threatened Invasion of Palestinian Gaza!

To: President George W. Bush, President-Elect Barack Obama, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State Designate Hillary Clinton, Vice President Richard Cheney, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Congressional leaders, U.N. Secretary General Ban, U.N. General Assembly President d'Escoto-Brockmann, members of the U.N. Security Council, U.N. member states, the President, Prime Minister, Cabinet and Opposition leader of Israel, and Major media representatives:

For 60 years, Israel has persecuted the Palestinian people with impunity in defiance of United Nations General Assembly and United Nations Security Council Resolutions, orders of the International Court of Justice, International Law and fundamental human rights.

Throughout the years, Israel has proclaimed itself the victim as it grew richer, more powerful and more violent, while Palestinians were abused, impoverished, divided and demeaned.

A consistent tactic of Israel through all the years has been to divide Palestinians against their most effective organizations. Through most of the recent years Israel has attacked Fatah. Now it is Hamas that Israel attacks. But there is only one Palestinian people and there can be only one Palestinian State. This has been the guiding principle of the PLO. Israel's policy has always been to destroy the possibility of a Palestinian State. Its criminal assault on Hamas is in truth Israel's continuing assault on the possibility of a Palestinian State: divide and conquer.

Now in the waning days of the disastrous Bush Administration, the government of Israel with its Prime Minister under criminal indictment, is testing whether world opinion will permit it to escalate its isolation and impoverishment of Palestine and selective and systematic assassination of Palestinian leadership in Gaza to a genocidal, indiscriminate assault and invasion of Palestinian Gaza, knowing full well its acts will inflame passions throughout the Middle East and Arab and Muslim worlds risking conflict of disastrous magnitude in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, even between India and Pakistan.

Beyond crushing Gaza's capacity to resist and imposing its final solution on Palestinians, Israel is seeking confrontation that will lead to war with the U.S., the European Union, and NATO fighting for Israel against Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan to impair their ability to prevent expansion of Israel's domination of the region while the "only one President at a time" the U.S. has, George W. Bush, will support Israel, finding all fault with Gaza.

In these dangerous and difficult days and hours the undersigned call upon the United Nations, the United States, the European Union, NATO members, and European countries independently, the governments of Asia, foremost China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan, the nations of Africa, and the Americas to demand an immediate ceasefire throughout Israel and Palestine and the assurance of peace. All borders to Gaza, Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, must be opened for humanitarian relief and a complete arms and trade embargo on Israel until it fully complies with all the requirements of permanent peace.

We call upon all the people, the ultimate power in every nation when organized and energized, to take to the streets where they live and demand that their governments do all in their power to cause Israel to stop its war of aggression against Palestine and for all parties to pursue peace and for Israel, the U.S. and other nations who have provided material support for Israel's aggression to be held accountable for the deaths, injuries and damage Israel has inflicted.

We call upon governments and humanitarian agencies to provide all needed emergency relief to Palestine - medical care, food, humanitarian supplies, shelter; and on all the media that truly seeks peace, justice and respect for the equal dignity of every child, woman and man on earth to headline the demand that Israel stop its aggression immediately. All parties must engage in continuous negotiation with all Palestinians until a one state solution is agreed or the state of Palestine as mandated not later than October 1948 in UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (1947) is created, fully implemented, and Palestine thrives.

Sincerely,
(Your signature will be appended here based on the contact information you enter in the form above)

Initiated and signed by
Ramsey Clark, winner, 2008 U.N.Human Rights Award


RECIPIENTS:
Dutch Contacts:
Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Office of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands
c/o Richard Freeman, PM Press Officer
Email: press-EN@europarl.europa.eu
Brussels phone: (32-2) 28 41448 (BXL)
Strasbourg phone: (33-3) 881 73785 (STR)
Mobile phone: (+32) 498 98 32 39

Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Dutch Justice Minister
Dutch Justice Ministry
Postbus 20301
2500 EH Den Haag
Email: vragen@postbus51.nl
Phone: +31 (0)70 3 70 79 11

Dutch National Intelligence Service
Postbus 20010
2500 EA Den Haag
Phone: +31 (0)70-317 86 10
Fax: +31 (0)70-320 07 33


Dutch Consuls in the U.S.:

Ambassador Christiaan Mark Johan Kr
Dutch Embassy in Washington DC
4200 Linnean Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008
Phone: 1-877-388-2443
Fax: 202-362-3430

...
Filipino Contacts:
...
U.N. Contacts:
Hon. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General
United Nations
United Nations Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York,NY 10017
Email: sg@un.org

...
U.S. Contacts:

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington,DC 20500
Email: president@whitehouse.gov

Hon. Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State
Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington,D.C. 20520
Phone: (202) 647-4000
Fax: (202) 647-2283

Rep. Maxine Waters
Phone: (202) 225-2201
Fax: (202) 225-7854
Email: http://www.house.gov/waters/IMA/issue.htm

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Phone: (202) 224-4451
Fax: (202) 228-0282
Email: http://clinton.senate.gov/email_form.html



Sen. Barack Obama
Phone: (202) 224-2854
Fax: (202) 228-4260
Email: http://obama.senate.gov/contact/

Rep. John Conyers
Phone: (202) 225-5126
Fax: (202) 225-0072
Email: John.Conyers@mail.house.gov

Rep. Barbara J. Lee
Phone: (202) 225-2661
Fax: (202) 225-9817
Email: barbara.lee@congressnewsletter.net

Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Phone: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
Email: http://feinstein.senate.gov/email.html

Rep. Jesse L. Jackson
Phone: (202) 225-0773
Fax: (202) 225-0899
Email: http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Phone: (202) 225-8050
Fax: (202) 225-3002
Email: http://www.norton.house.gov/feedback.cfm?campaign=norton&type=Contact%20Me

Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Phone: (202) 225-4965
Fax: (202) 225-8259
Email: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov


Rep. John Lewis
Phone: (202) 225-3801
Fax: (202) 225-0351
Email: john.lewis@mail.house.gov

Sen. Thad Cochran
Phone: (202) 224-5054
Fax: (202) 224-9450
Email: http://cochran.senate.gov/contact.htm

Sen. Robert C. Byrd
Phone: (202) 224-3954
Fax: (202) 228-0002
Email: http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
Phone: (202) 224-4543
Fax: (202) 224-2417
Email: http://kennedy.senate.gov/contact.html

Sen. John McCain
Phone: (202) 224-2235
Fax: (202) 228-2862
Email: http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Contact.Home

Rep. John A. Boehner
Phone: (202) 225-6205
Fax: (202) 225-0704
Email: http://johnboehner.house.gov/contact.asp

Sen. Harry M. Reid
Phone: (202) 224-3542
Fax: (202) 224-7327
Email: http://reid.senate.gov/email_form.cfm?lowsrc=1

Rep. Charles B. Rangel
Phone: (202) 225-4365
Fax: (202) 225-0816
Email: http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Sen. Joseph R. Biden
Phone: (202) 224-5042
Fax: (202) 224-0139
Email: http://biden.senate.gov/contact/emailjoe.cfm

Sen. Daniel K. Inouye
Phone: (202) 224-3934
Fax: (202) 224-6747
Email: http://inouye.senate.gov/abtform.html

Sen. Barbara Boxer
Phone: (202) 224-3553
Fax: (415) 956-6701
Email: http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm

Sen. John F. Kerry
Phone: (202) 224-2742
Fax: (202) 224-8525
Email: http://kerry.senate.gov/v3/contact/email.cfm

Sen. Ted Stevens
Phone: (202) 224-3004
Fax: (202) 224-2354
Email: http://stevens.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Letters to the Editor New York Times
Email: letters@nytimes.com

Executive Editor New York Times
Email: executive-editor@nytimes.com

Letters to the Editor Washington Post
Email: letters@washpost.com

Foreign Editor Washington Post
Email: foreign@washpost.com

Letters to the Editor Los Angeles Times
Email: letters@latimes.com

Foreign Editor Los Angeles Times
Email: foreign@latimes.com

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posted December 30, 2008
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