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ISRAEL - GAZA WAR

* RE: NETANYAHU BEARS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS ISRAEL-GAZA WAR
 (VELVA SPRIGGS; CHARLES; BRUCE POWERS)
* RE: AS ISRAEL AND GAZA ERUPT, THE US MUST COMMIT TO ENDING THE
VIOLENCE — ALL THE VIOLENCE  (DAVID)
* RE: RESISTANCE IN GAZA LAUNCHES ATTACK ON ISRAEL  (GARY W SEEMAN;
STAN NADEL)
* MAKE A FUTURE  --  CARTOON BY PAT BAGLEY
* RE: EVERYONE SHOULD BE CALLING FOR A CEASE-FIRE IN PALESTINE
 (STAN NADEL)
* LETTER FROM ISRAEL: "DAYS OF GRIEF, AS OUR GOVERNMENT BEATS THE
DRUMS OF WAR"  (URI WELTMANN)
* WAR IS THE LIQUIDATION OF POLITICS  (GEOFFREY JACQUES)
* PEACE DEPENDS ON JUSTICE  (MADRE)

 

READER COMMENTS; CARTOONS; MEMES:

* RE: SEAN DOOLITTLE, BASEBALL’S LEFT-WING LEFTY, RETIRES  (DAVID
S. FINE; MIKE LISTON)
* RE: BIDEN TAKES INITIATIVE AGAINST JUNK FEES  (BRAD SMITH)
* GOP FRONTRUNNER  -  CARTOON BY CLAY BENNETT
* WHAT THE ATTRACTION IS FOR DONALD TRUMP  (SEYMOUR JOSEPH)
* KENNEDY FAMILY RELEASES STATEMENT ON CANDIDACY OF ROBERT F.
KENNEDY, JR.
* RE: HOW AMERICAN DEMOCRACY FELL SO FAR BEHIND  (DAN MORGAN)
* VOTING RIGHTS ACT RISES FROM THE ASHES OF ALABAMA GOP POLITICS
 --  CARTOON BY J.D. CROWE
* RE: CLARENCE THOMAS HAS YET ANOTHER HUGE CONFLICT OF INTEREST
 (NORM LITTLEJOHN)
* RE: TEN ELEMENTS OF A LEFTIST PEACE POLICY  (ETHAN YOUNG; DAN
MORGAN)

TAKE ACTION:

* VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE  --  LET CONGRESS DO IT'S JOB
 (ACTION CORPS)

 

* STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL/PALESTINE  (BEYT TIKKUN - A
SYNAGOGUE WIITHOUT WALLS)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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RE: NETANYAHU BEARS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS ISRAEL-GAZA WAR
 

Thank you for writing this article.  You have created important
insight, balance, and historical perspective that helps the reader see
both the Israeli and Palestinian connections to this outrageous new
military war.  I am sickened by the propagandizing of this war by the
media, only from the viewpoint of the Israelis.

All the main news outlets seem only to be pumping up Americans to be
in support of the final destruction of Palestine for the benefit of
the Israelis. More weapons, more guns, more planes to defend Israel,
to be a partner with Israel in the genocide of a people.

I do not condone the killing carried out by HAMAS as the acts of
killing and kidnapping are no small matter. It is all despicable.
 Now Israel is weaponizing the denial of water, electricity, food,
and fuel for the Palestinians, further imposing the acts of oppression
and apartheid that have probably led to the Palestinian rage we are
now witnessing and their ultimate acts of resistance. For the US,
there are political and capitalistic gains, and for Israel, the
annexation of Gaza - a land grab - and all the areas occupied by
Palestinians.

But look at the costs to human life on both sides. Who really cares as
the search for power still reigns supreme in western cultures no
matter who gets hurt - collateral damage! I will not engage in lifting
up Israel while denigrating and dehumanizing Palestinians.

I am not antisemitic.  I am simply a human being observing the
treachery and inhumanity of other humans. My soul is anguished for the
thousands who have suffered loss, illness, and death on both sides.
 There can be no good end to this story.

Velva Spriggs

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Never ceases to amaze, the desperate attempts to spin and invent a
more "palatable" narrative for all this, as the "brave freedom
fighter" cowards machine gunned kids at a music concert (a peace
concert), and anyone on the street, in their homes and cars, etc.,
from small children to elders, cheering allah akbar . . . but then, oh
no, now they'll have to fight against real soldiers from Israel.  So,
of course, the "freedom fighter" cowards now embed themselves into the
Palestinian civilian population, using them as shields.

Yes, I know, the people voted for Hamas (the concept of elections
there is very different than standard elections elsewhere in the
developed world), so of course, there's going to be civilian
casualties, that can then be used to prop up the usual "everything
Israel is evil, everything Gaza is good and innocent victimhood"
nonsense narrative.

The truly sad part is that there are more than a few who really
believe this hideously distorted narrative.

Oh well, I know, that's not likely to be a very popular view here.

Charles

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Too busy being a criminal.... and overthrowing democracy for himself
.... just like Trump

Bruce Powers
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: AS ISRAEL AND GAZA ERUPT, THE US MUST COMMIT TO ENDING THE
VIOLENCE — ALL THE VIOLENCE
 

please remove me from this list. not enough balanced coverage of
Israel. thanks.

David

 

RE: RESISTANCE IN GAZA LAUNCHES ATTACK ON ISRAEL
 

Perpetrating war crimes is not a leftist position

I was very disappointed today to find an article featured in xxxxxx
that presents a narrative that justifies war crimes on the part of
Hezbollah when its soldiers deliberately attack and murder civilians
and take civilian hostages.

Israel's atrocities against the Palestinian territories are no excuse
for deliberate terrorism.

xxxxxx's featuring that article makes me now consider whether I want
to continue receiving updates about features on this site.

Gary W Seeman

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How about posting something like this to balance the Hamas barbarism
excusers?

    The American Jewish left is wrong about Palestinian
‘resistance’
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    If you think Hamas violence can bring Palestinian safety and
freedom, keep watching the news
    

Stan Nadel
Salzburg, Austria

 

MAKE A FUTURE  --  CARTOON BY PAT BAGLEY
 

Pat Bagley
October 10, 2023
The Salt Lake Tribune
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RE: EVERYONE SHOULD BE CALLING FOR A CEASE-FIRE IN PALESTINE
 

So xxxxxx is now all in with the save Hamas brigade. No proposals
for alternative ways to eliminate the fascist barbarians of Hamas,
just condemnations of Israel's attempt to do so. That's just support
for the fascists and shameful for supposed leftists.  By this logic
the allies should have taken pity on the civilians of Nazi Germany and
refrained from crushing the Nazis. The bleeding hearts have lost so
much blood that they (you?) are brain dead.

Stan Nadel

 

LETTER FROM ISRAEL: "DAYS OF GRIEF, AS OUR GOVERNMENT BEATS THE DRUMS
OF WAR"
 

Uri Weltmann

October 10, 2023
Standing Together [[link removed]]

These are days of grief and deep concern for the future. Innocent
lives were lost by the hundreds both inside Israel as well as in the
Gaza Strip. The stories of Israeli civilians who survived the brutal
attack by Hamas armed militias on towns near the Gaza Strip, evoke
terrifying memories from Jewish collective memory. Survivors tell of
children, babies, women and elderly who lost their lives, while in
their homes.

All the while, Israeli warplanes bomb indiscriminately buildings in
the Gaza Strip, killing many - including children. Israeli government
officials openly state that they aim to cause suffering to the
civilian population, with collective punishment, such as cutting all
electricity and running water. In the West Bank, violent settlers
launch attacks on nearby Palestinian villages, with the army standing
by and doing nothing to stop them.

Yesterday, I visited the _Shivah_ (traditional Jewish week of
mourning, following the death of family members) at a friend's house,
living north of Tel-Aviv. Both his parents - an elderly couple - were
killed in their home in Netiv HaAsara, near Gaza Strip. I went there
with a comrade of mine, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, who is active
with me in Standing Together. The grieving friend, who is a veteran
peace activist and a supporter of Standing Together, burst into tears
as we visited him. He said his parents shared his commitment to our
joint cause of peace. On the way back, I scrolled through social
media, just to see more announcements of funerals, missing persons,
abductees to Gaza, from people whom I know.

The attack on Saturday morning was a tragedy. About to be compounded
by the ruthless acts of the Israeli government, bent on committing
atrocities. 

Listen to Alon-Lee Green, National Co-Director of Standing Together,
speaks against beating the drums of war and against the hawkish
statements made by Israeli government officials:

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An important point was made by Sally Abed, member of the leadership of
Standing Together, calling for people to express solidarity with
peoples, rather than with governments. For someone abroad to "Support
Israel" is very different from "Supporting Israelis".

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Being part of the peace movement in Israel, naturally we aim our
criticism first of all at the actions and policies of our government,
since we wish to transform our society and change its political
course. Nonetheless, deep criticism must also be drawn against the
Hamas leadership in Gaza, for its responsibility on the attack against
the civilian population in the south of Israel. Unfortunately, this is
a criticism not always leveled, in statements made in the last few
days by various organizations around the world.

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We struggle for Israeli-Palestinian peace based on ending the
Occupation and achieving independence, freedom and justice for both of
our peoples. What motivates us are not abstract principles or
theories, but deep care towards the people in our society. In trying
times such as these, we are hurting for the suffering inflicted on
Palestinians and Israelis alike.

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Let's wish for better days to come soon,

 

WAR IS THE LIQUIDATION OF POLITICS
 

We should finally put to bed the quaint notion, famously promulgated
by an Napoleonic-era military mind, that war is politics by other
means. War is the liquidation of politics.

Along with this, we who are democratic radicals, socialists, and
social revolutionaries must extinguish once and for all the notion,
far too widespread among us, that terrorism is a legitimate strategy,
tactics, or political identity, and that those that use terrorism in
the name of liberation are worthy of support. That idea is nothing
more than a monstrous fraud whose first aim is to kill democracy as a
practice, an aspiration, and as a path to liberation.

It is wholly unnecessary to support terrorists and their strategy and
tactics in order to express solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Similarly, neither does solidarity in support of resistance to
imperialist aggression in Central Europe mean giving unqualified
permission to our governments to depend on increased munitions for the
victims of aggression as the sole instruments of solidarity. But
solidarity also does not mean support for surrender on the part of the
victims of imperialist aggression, any more than it means
participating in the conspiracy of silence against those that suffer
under occupation from a theocratic republic whose own limited
democracy is facing crisis.

Those that adhere to the notion that a war of terror against civilians
on the border between Israel and the Gaza strip is somehow a case of
liberationists taking advantage, in favor of the Palestinian people,
of Israel's current political crisis are radically misguided. The
politicians of the Likud-led coalition in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem have
found in Hamas no better ally. Terrorists feed on murder and
information fog, and thuggishness is not the sole property of any one
political cosmology.

We of the multiracial, multinational, multiethnic, and
multi-religious, working class-oriented left in the liberal democratic
capitalist republics of Europe and North America can do better than
we've done so far with regard to each of these situations. We must
find ways to support democratic forces in the whole of
Israel-Palestine, who now find themselves in the vice of adherents and
politicians that practice versions of thuggish theocratic nationalism,
political adventurism, and republican authoritarianism, and for whom
terrorism is either an ideology, an identity, a strategy, a tactic, or
all of these together, depending, it seems, on little more the
momentary state of play and the time of day.

Similarly, we must find better ways of enacting solidarity with the
peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, who are now facing an
imperialist aggressor that has launched the biggest land war on that
continent in nearly a century, right in the center of the world's most
concentrated nuclear arsenal. Just as the voices that we in the "West"
have heard from the least during Russia's war against Ukraine have
been the trade unionists, peace activists, and the social movement and
political movement activists and writers in Ukraine and Eastern
Europe, so, too, have the civil society organizations and voices in
Israel-Palestine that are trying to find a way out of the vice of
theocratic nationalism and republican authoritarianism are all but
unknown outside of their own neighborhoods, not least because of a
widespread and increasing censorship campaign that, with its "don't
say Palestine" orientation, mirrors the political gangsterism of the
governor of our own so-called Sunshine state, with his "don't say gay"
politics.

Enough with the empty slogans and the social imperialist hubris. Can
we get back to doing what left wing movements do? I know this is hard,
especially for those closest to these struggles, who, along with
political concerns, may be intellectually, culturally, emotionally,
religiously, or familially invested in the minutiae of the everyday.
However, one can hope that, in the 21st century, there must still be
first principles for left wingers. Anti-imperialism, solidarity with
the oppressed and those fighting for democracy, and anti-terrorism
should be among these principles.

Geoffrey Jacques

 

PEACE DEPENDS ON JUSTICE
 

October 11, 2023

What we need now are policies rooted in care and healing – not
violent retaliation
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MADRE mourns the Palestinian and Israelis who have been horrifically
killed in these past days of violence, with more deaths announced each
day. We will continue to support our partners, including those inside
Gaza, who are providing emergency medical care and psychosocial
support as casualties mount.

We stand with families who grieve and fear for their loved ones,
and who – like this Israeli father connecting his suffering to a
mother in Gaza – still cry out for peace
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We uphold that true, lasting peace and justice can only come from an
end to Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies that have deprived
and dehumanized Palestinians for generations. These policies have also
made peace for Israelis and Palestinians impossible. Peace cannot
coexist with or grow from occupation.

Actions that escalate this crisis will only worsen the horror and
produce more generations trapped in occupation and war, fear and
grief. Israel’s disproportionate retaliatory airstrikes
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announcement that Gaza will be placed under “complete siege
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“no electricity, no food, no fuel” means we are charging down
this brutal path – all with unwavering support
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of dollars of funding
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annually, from the United States. Our partners at the Palestinian
Medical Relief Society are providing lifesaving aid to people in Gaza
and have released a statement
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the international community that denial of humanitarian access
constitutes a war crime.”

This crisis is still unfolding, and even as we mobilize urgently to
provide aid, we brace ourselves for what’s to come. We know that
this devastation grows from the violence of the past. Even before the
latest attacks, 2023 was the deadliest year for Palestinians
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the height of the second Intifada. For 16 years, the people of Gaza
have lived in what amounts to an “open air prison
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deprived of food, electricity, clean water and the basic freedom to
move, and frequently targeted with airstrikes. A ten-year-old child in
Gaza has already lived through four Israeli military campaigns
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As Israel’s Defense Minister declared that this siege would be
expanded, he justified that decision saying that “we are fighting
human animals
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ramping up the language of dehumanization that paves the way for even
more violence.
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Despite Israel’s apartheid policies
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and ongoing attacks
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civilians in Gaza, the Biden administration has so far failed to call
for accountability for war crimes on all sides. Instead,
both President Biden
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many Congressional leaders have expressed remorse for lives lost in
Israel while ignoring lives lost in Gaza
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Through years of violence and oppression, Palestinian communities have
cared for each other and mobilized in nonviolent collective action,
with women often playing critical leadership roles to support their
families and communities
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During the months of the Great March of Return of 2018-2019, thousands
of Palestinians responded to a call for peaceful mass action to gather
at Gaza’s border fences and denounce their occupation – and were
met with violent retaliation by the Israeli military
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As Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the only Member of Congress with
Palestinian heritage, wrote
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recognize the violent reality of living under siege, occupation, and
apartheid makes no one safer. No person, no child anywhere should have
to suffer or live in fear of violence. We cannot ignore the humanity
in each other.”

Recently, a growing Israeli democracy movement has also denounced the
abuses of their government, with some connecting the roots of this
authoritarianism to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. This
weekend, an Israeli lawmaker said
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“There is an ethnic cleansing going on. It was obvious the writing
was on the wall, written in the blood of the Palestinians  – and
unfortunately now Israelis as well.”

The US government has a choice to make. It could choose solidarity
with the vision of peace and justice expressed by these Palestinians
and Israelis, who know that the best path forward lies in
accountability and an end to the occupation. Across administrations,
the US has often chosen complicity with violence, condemning present
and future generations of Israelis and Palestinians to an endless
cycle of grief and revenge. What we need now are policies rooted in
care and healing – not violent retaliation – and an even
application of international law for all parties to the conflict.

MADRE [[link removed]]  
121 West 27th Street #604
New York, NY 10001

 

RE: SEAN DOOLITTLE, BASEBALL’S LEFT-WING LEFTY, RETIRES
 

A truly great man! We will miss seeing you on the field Brother!

David S. Fine
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Seems like a great athlete in all respects,

Mike Liston

 

RE: BIDEN TAKES INITIATIVE AGAINST JUNK FEES
 

limits on credit card late payment fees?

Brad Smith

 

GOP FRONTRUNNER  -  CARTOON BY CLAY BENNETT

 

7d

Clay Bennett
October 2, 2023
Chattanooga Times Free Press
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WHAT THE ATTRACTION IS FOR DONALD TRUMP
 

To understand what the attraction is for Donald Trump I go back to the
gangster movies of the 1930s. We weren’t attracted to the detectives
and G-men who brought the culprits to justice, we loved the bad guys
played by Bogart and Cagney.

Forget law and order; their bravado and daring registered with us. You
might call them the first Anti-heroes. When Trump took the stage at
the first Republican debate in 2016 it was a shock. He was brash and
disrespectful, not “politically correct,” like the others
surrounding him. And though his behavior was not even socially
acceptable, there was enough ho-hum about the others to give him the
nomination, and eventually the presidency.

Unfortunately, this is not the movies, which you walk away from and no
harm is done. This is real life and really dangerous. In this
“scenario,” We the People are the detectives and G-men, and if we
don’t bring Donald J. Trump to justice there’ll be no walking away
from the consequences.

Seymour Joseph

 

KENNEDY FAMILY RELEASES STATEMENT ON CANDIDACY OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY,
JR.
 

The Kennedy family just released a joint statement denouncing Robert
Kennedy Junior as a fraud.

Follow Occupy Democrats [[link removed]] for
more.

 

RE: HOW AMERICAN DEMOCRACY FELL SO FAR BEHIND
 

Yes, liberal democracy in the USA could be improved. But is liberal
democracy real democracy? When it is the context of capitalism (almost
by definition) it leaves real power in the hands of a small minority,
through control of the mass media and all state institutions including
the judiciary, intelligence organizations, police and military.

The history of liberal democracies show that when capitalist rule is
threatened all sorts of mechanisms come into play to prevent it. From
destroying Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party in Britain,
to the military coup in Chile. A few countries have managed to escape,
at least for some time - Venezuela with Chavez notably. But to
maintain and build real democracy, socialist democracy, dramatic
changes are necessary.

Dan Morgan
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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VOTING RIGHTS ACT RISES FROM THE ASHES OF ALABAMA GOP POLITICS  --
 CARTOON BY J.D. CROWE

 

J.D. Crowe
June 9, 2023
AL.com
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RE: CLARENCE THOMAS HAS YET ANOTHER HUGE CONFLICT OF INTEREST
 

Revolving Door Project research reveals that right-wing elites in the
Horatio Alger Association stand to benefit from a lawsuit attempting
to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The group has
close ties to Clarence Thomas.

Norm Littlejohn
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: TEN ELEMENTS OF A LEFTIST PEACE POLICY
 

Calling Putin's invasion what it is, is so stigmatized that the writer
to completely glides over the name 'Ukraine'. 'Solidarity' is invoked,
but no mention is made of the Ukrainian resistance, which is undercut
by the demand for the US to push besieged Ukraine to negotiate. With
these omissions, the proposed peace policy may apply to a world where
the same rules apply to every conflict, but not to this one. Fear of
taking a position that seems to align with NATO, should not obscure
the fact that Putin was not forced to invade -- he chose to.

Just as the 'negotiations now' demand is buttressed by arguments that
are indistinguishable from Russia's rhetoric. The difference is NATO
is engaged in imperialist power plays in the region, while Russia
burst through the border and is now smashing civilians of a weaker
neighbor.

Ethan Young
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Ethan Young maybe you did not see an Amnesty International press
release of August 4, 2022. No? Possibly because it was written by
their people on the ground but was not to the liking of their bosses,
and so was disowned. It showed that civilians were purposely put in
danger in Ukraine by placing military targets close to them. Other
recent examples - the missile that hit a market recently was blamed on
Russia but later admitted to be Ukrainian. Compare Ukraine with the
flattening of Gaza now, and see where civilians are being 'smashed'.

Dan Morgan
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE  --  LET CONGRESS DO IT'S JOB  (ACTION
CORPS)

 

Click here
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Violence and war can leave us feeling powerless. The escalation of
violence in Israel and Palestine these past few days has been
devastating. I encourage us to show kindness to ourselves and one
another, and to join humanitarian and faith-based organizations, and
members of Congress, in calling for a ceasefire and de-escalation.

Hamas’ attack on Israel this past weekend represents the
country’s deadliest
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decades. In response, Monday the Israeli defense minister ordered
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“complete siege,” cutting Gaza off from electricity, fuel, and
food. Israel is pummeling the country, striking
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mosques, and residential buildings. We condemn the Hamas attacks –
including its attacks on Israeli civilians and its taking of hostages
– and the Israeli military and settlers’ assault on the
Palestinian people.

ACTION CORPS URGES MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO JOIN SEN. ED MARKEY, AND
REPS. BARBARA LEE, ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ AND CORI BUSH
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HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS LIKE OXFAM
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AND FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC
BISHOPS
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IN CALLING FOR CEASEFIRE, DE-ESCALATION AND RESPECT FOR CIVILIAN
POPULATIONS. FURTHERMORE, WE CALL ON U.S. LAWMAKERS TO ENFORCE U.S.
LAW ON U.S. MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL, PREVENTING THE USE OF U.S. WEAPONS
AGAINST CIVILIANS OR IN CIVILIAN AREAS..

We should press Congress to do its job. Congress should ensure that
the U.S. follows international law and norms, and holds the executive
branch accountable for the effects of our country’s foreign policy.

The road ahead won’t be easy, and there’s suffering to come that
we may not be able to stop. But where we can make a difference,
let’s.

Please stay in touch.

Peace,

Isaac Evans-Frantz he/him
Executive Director

ACTION CORPS [[link removed]]

 

STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL/PALESTINE  (BEYT TIKKUN - A
SYNAGOGUE WITHOUT WALLS)

 

We are outraged by, mourn deeply, and unequivocally condemn the
horrific actions of Hamas. According to Israeli sources, more than
1,200 people were killed and 2,900 injured, most of whom were
civilians, and over 100 individuals (including children, women, and
the elderly) were taken as hostages into Gaza. 

_Tikkun_ magazine and _Beyt Tikkun: A Synagogue without
Walls_ partnered with others to write a joint statement that we hope
can help us rise above divisiveness and division and call us to our
highest selves. 

What follows is our joint statement. We invite everyone who agrees
with our statement to add your name. You can read the statement below
and add your name by CLICKING HERE
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SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL/PALESTINE

This statement is written and signed by Palestinians, Jews, and others
who are committed to holding complex truths and striving to overcome
polarization. We feel the pain of our people, identify with their
pain, and need to work together to uplift our shared humanity. 

The unfolding horror in Israel and Gaza is an escalation of decades of
state-sanctioned violence by Israel against Palestinians. We condemn
the horrific actions of Hamas against Israeli civilians. We likewise
condemn Israel’s unbridled bombing and cutting off access to all
basic needs, including food, water, electricity, and medical care.
Attacks on Palestinian and Israeli civilians are repugnant. 

Israeli violence against Palestinians has been intentionally hidden,
slow, and steady. Contrary to what the media is reporting, this attack
was not unprovoked. The Israeli and American governments have worked
together to suppress and deny the inhumane acts against Palestinians
that have led to this moment. There are Palestinians and Jews who have
been raising red flags and warning about this inevitable outcome for
decades, only to be dismissed and ignored. 

The world’s failure to challenge Israel’s ongoing occupation,
apartheid, and unbridled violence by settlers and soldiers in the West
Bank provides the context for what is happening now. The recent
Israeli government’s escalation of violence, encroachment of Al Aqsa
Mosque, and its 16-year siege of Gaza has led to the current
explosion. 

We repeat: the brutality of Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians is
unjustified. 

As we watch the violent attacks and rallying of xenophobia on both
sides, we are brokenhearted. Although it feels like a time to stand
with “our people,” we know this is a time to come together. This
is a time of great suffering for all; a time of painful emotions. It
is only by recognizing our shared fears and our shared tears that we
will find our way through this nightmare. It is a struggle we need to
undertake jointly. 

When we fall back into our separate and distinct identities we risk
becoming part of the problem, not the solution. Both peoples suffer
from ongoing trauma. We are all on high alert. The fear is palpable.
And it is easy for us to objectify the 'other.' 

We seek a third path that neither perpetuates a xenophobic response
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