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Citizens for Fair Legislation
For Immediate Release
April 20, 2004
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CFL ALERT: ARAB-AMERICANS AND ALL PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE CANNOT SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.

BIPARTISAN SUPPORT OF ISRAELI CRIMES SUCH AS THE CONTINUED THEFT OF PALESTINIAN LAND AND EXTRA JUDICIAL ASSASSINATIONS RULE OUT ARAB-AMERICAN AND MUSLIM SUPPORT FOR EITHER PARTY IN NOVEMBER.

TALKING POINTS
*On 3/14/04 President Bush destroyed the credibility of American foreign policy by declaring that Israel could keep chunks of stolen land in the illegally occupied West Bank and by dismissing the Palestinian right of return. The U.S. has consistently cited various UN resolutions as a pretext for waging war against Iraq, yet once again this country has affirmed that Israel need not abide by international law or UN resolutions. Even more outrageous is the fact that this administration did not speak with the Palestinians before making decisions relating to their national aspirations.

*Tell your Democratic representatives that you expected them to oppose this extremist shift in U.S. policy, and that you were shocked that Democratic candidate John Kerry seized this shift as an opportunity to stress his pro-Israel voting record. Kerry said, "I have a 100 percent record -- not a 99, a 100 percent record of sustaining the special relationship and friendship that we have with Israel," he said at a fund-raiser in Juno Beach. Tell them that it is not a badge of honor to support Israeli crimes against Palestinian men, women and children. Kerry also said that he supported the president's new position that Israel should be allowed to keep land it stole from the Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank. Tell your representatives that you cannot support this extremist and racist ideology from the Democratic Party.

*Tell your representatives that because neither the Democratic nor Republican parties will support a fair and just peace in the Middle East and because both parties continue to bend over backwards for Israeli pro-Apartheid lobby groups, that you will stand united in November against all politicians who view the Palestinian people as an expendable commodity whose fate can be violated as long as it means more votes come election time. It is inexcusable for any candidate to back away from supporting basic human dignity and rights for an entire nation merely because it will mean more votes for them at election time.

*Remind your representatives that it is unethical for them to demand that Palestinians end their resistance against a cruel and criminal occupation and at the same time support and sanction violent Israeli crimes against Palestinians, such as the extra judicial assassinations of Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi. The assassination of Palestinians has been condemned by the entire world with the exception of American politicians who allow themselves to become corrupted by pro-Zionist interest groups as long as those groups continue to bribe them with money and votes.

*For more information please read: How the U.S. sold the Palestinians out www.rense.com/general26/how.htm

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