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Citizens for Fair Legislation
For Immediate Release
July 12, 2005
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CFL ALERT: APARTHEID WALL TO STRANGLE OVER 100,000 PALESTINIANS IN ARAB-EAST JERUSALEM. TELL YOUR OFFICIALS THAT YOU ARE OUTRAGED BY THIS BLATANT ATTEMPT TO ETHNICALLY CLEANSE PALESTINIANS FROM ARAB-JERUSALEM.
TALKING POINTS:
*Javier Solana, who just arrived in the region for talks with Israelis and Palestinians, said that the European Union opposed the recent Israeli land grab in Jerusalem, saying, "We think that Israel has the right to defend itself, but we think that the fence which will stand outside the territory of Israel is not legally proper and it creates also humanitarian problems." Solana also reminded Israel that Jerusalem is holy to Christians and Muslims, not just for Jews.
Palestinians will be cut off from jobs, schools, hospitals and family in Jerusalem and surrounding areas.
MK Yossi Sarid (Meretz-Yahad) said that "the government decision proves again that the occupation can't be swallowed, but nor can it be spit out. The occupation is stuck like a bone in Israel's throat and is strangling it."
MK Azmi Bshara (Balad) said that the government decision slices through neighborhoods and communities in Jerusalem as if no people were involved, only paper and a ruler. He said that talk of gates and openings and services on the other side of the fence was hypocrisy.
*PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas harshly attacked the plan and said the PA would not accept it. Abbas, who returned to Ramallah from a visit to Syria and Lebanon, said that "approving the fence route in Jerusalem could bring about the end of relations between the two sides. Such steps will not serve peace, nor will they serve Israel's security."
*Ask your representatives to condemn Israeli attempts to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the region and tell your representatives that you are opposed to a single dollar being sent to a regime bent on violating international law and human rights.
*Tell the President that you are tired of having your hard earned tax dollars manipulated by the Israeli apartheid regime and used to subjugate millions of Palestinians. Ask your representatives how far they will go in their support of apartheid. Remind your representatives that the expansion of Israel's apartheid wall into Arab-East Jerusalem is illegal and in violation of several UN Resolutions including UN Resolution 252 which calls on Israel to stop taking measures that unify Jerusalem as the Jewish capital.
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