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This Week: Tell Congress You Oppose the Gaza War 📞 | Jeremy Ben-Ami
Debates Einat Wilf: Is Trump Good For Israel? 🎤 | 600 Days Of Hell 📅 |
Terror and Death Come to Washington 🏛️ | Trump-Netanyahu ‘Gaza
Humanitarian Foundation’ Devolves Into Chaos 🌾 | The Growing Chorus
Against Netanyahu’s War 📢 | This Week’s Must-Reads 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy
To-Do List 🗳️ | And much more.

 📞 Tell Congress You Oppose the Gaza War: In both Israel and the United
States, clear majorities of both nations' Jewish communities want a
hostage deal and ceasefire. But while most of us want the war in Gaza to
end, too often it’s pro-war voices that are grabbing the megaphone.

* This week, we’re asking all our supporters to call their Members of
Congress and leave a clear message: Our Jewish and pro-Israel
community opposes the continuation of the Gaza War. [ [link removed] ]Enter your ZIP
code and email address to find phone numbers for your Members of
Congress and get a call script >>

🎤 Jeremy Ben-Ami Debates Einat Wilf: Is Trump Good For Israel? In a fiery
debate moderated by Emmy Award-winner John Donvan, Jeremy Ben-Ami took on
former Knesset member Einat Wilf’s zero-sum view of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and her support for Trump’s interventions in
the region.

* Two Peoples With Legitimate Claims: Jeremy shared his conviction that
the both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples “have legitimate claims
to national self-determination in the exact same land.” [ [link removed] ]Watch and
share the full debate >>

📅 600 Days Of Hell: This Wednesday marked 600 days since October 7. 600
days of captivity for the hostages. 600 days of Palestinian families
fleeing bombardment and struggling to survive. It's past time to end the
war, free the hostages and bring relief to Gaza.

* “Israel once defeated its enemies in six days. Under Netanyahu, the
Gaza war has just reached day 600,” Amir Tibon wrote in [ [link removed] ]Haaretz.
“The contrast between the two wars reveals a deep crisis of leadership
and direction.”

🏛️ Terror and Death Come to Washington: The horror of last week’s
anti-Israel terror attack which left two embassy staff dead continues to
reverberate across the city and across our community. 

* “It’s painful when the worst of our fears are realized – fears of what
can happen when anger over the actions of Israel’s government
thousands of miles away is shamefully warped and manipulated into
hatred of Jewish people everywhere,” Jeremy writes. “The horror at the
Capital Jewish Museum must not harden our hearts or cause us to lose
faith that there’s a way forward out of the darkness.” [ [link removed] ]Read the
full Word on the Street Substack >>

🌾 Trump-Netanyahu ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ Devolves Into Chaos: This
week saw haunting, desperate, chaotic scenes as Trump and Netanyahu’s
‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) attempted its first aid deliveries.

* This man-made crisis has been fueled by Netanyahu's decision to block
all supplies from Gaza for months – from baby food to vaccines to
women's health supplies. His government continues to obstruct aid
despite easing the blockade in recent days.

* Humanitarian agencies have refused to work with GHF, in part over
concerns that it is being used as a tool to displace and transfer a
desperate civilian population. As the group’s own Executive Director
said in his Sunday resignation, “it is clear that it is not possible
to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the
humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and
independence, which I will not abandon.”

* As J Street has consistently said: Israel and the US should heed
warnings from many of Israel's own former top military veterans who
say blockades are unnecessary and that they need to let humanitarian
aid agencies do their job, with safeguards for distribution.

📢 The Growing Chorus Against Netanyahu’s War: In Israel and around the
world, a growing number of leaders are condemning the Gaza war. 

* [ [link removed] ]Enough Is Enough. Israel Is Committing War Crimes: “Recent
operations in Gaza have nothing to do with legitimate war goals. The
government sends our soldiers – and the military obeys – to wander
around Gaza City, Jabalya and Khan Yunis neighborhoods in an
illegitimate military operation. This is now a private political war.
Its immediate result is the transformation of Gaza into a humanitarian
disaster area,” wrote Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. 

* [ [link removed] ]German Chancellor: Israel's Gaza Offensive No Longer Justified.
“Germany has a clear position: no expulsions of the Palestinian
population from the Gaza Strip, an end to hunger. And the Gaza Strip
as well as the West Bank belong to the Palestinians, on the path to a
two-state solution,” said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Merz is
only one of many European leaders who have taken a stronger stance
against the war in recent days.

📖  This Week’s Must-Reads:

* [ [link removed] ]Children in Gaza Are Starving. Let the UN Do Its Job: "What we need
is for UNICEF and its humanitarian partners to be allowed to do our
jobs. We have proven that essentials like medicine, vaccines, water,
food and nutrition for babies can reach those in distress, wherever
they are, when we have unfettered and safe access. We are not asking
for the impossible. We are asking for international humanitarian law
to be respected and applied,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine
Russell writes.

* [ [link removed] ]Riots, Racist Slurs, Religious Ecstasy: What Was Familiar and What
Changed This Jerusalem Day: "Far-right and right-wing participants
clashed with Palestinian shop owners and passersby, with left-wing
Israeli activists who have increasingly attended the march to protect
Palestinians and their property, as well as with journalists and
police. At least two elderly Palestinian men were knocked to the
ground, and light property damage was reported at several businesses,"
Rachel Fink reports.

* [ [link removed] ]Israel Is Becoming a Pariah State. Here’s What American Jews Must
Do. New Israel Fund CEO Daniel Sokatch writes, "to those who are
searching for another way to stay in relationship with Israel without
betraying their values: Support those who share the same values and
vision for Israel’s future that you believe in. One that is inclusive,
just and peaceful. Two peoples live between the Jordan River and the
Mediterranean Sea, and neither of them are going anywhere. They must
live together."

🗳️ Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List:

[10][ ] [ [link removed] ]Call your Member of Congress and tell them you oppose the Gaza
war >>

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