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Ask your House Rep to sign onto Rep Jayapal's letter to Biden about Israel [1]

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Date: 2023-10-13  

Disturbing American policy has been brought to light:

"In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.” The revelation provides a stunning signal about the Biden administration’s reluctance to push for Israeli restraint"

We help fund Israel’s defense and we need for Israel to defend itself without committing war crimes. Rep Jayapal and the Congressional Progressive Caucus have a way forward:

We urge you to take the following priorities into account:

1. Communicate that Israel’s response in Gaza must be carried out according to

international law and take all due measures to limit harm to innocent civilians;

2. Work to quickly restore the delivery of food, water, fuel, electricity, and other life-saving necessities to Gaza to ensure that innocent civilians have the basics needed for survival;

3. Collaborate with regional partners to establish a humanitarian corridor to enable the delivery of such life-saving necessities and to allow Palestinian civilians and foreign nationals, including U.S. citizens, to seek safe haven outside of Gaza;

4. Publicly discourage any hate crimes and backlash against any American—including Jews and Muslims—including by communicating to the American people that Hamas is not the Palestinian people and the Palestinian people are not Hamas; and

5. Ensure that supplemental funding requests to Congress include humanitarian assistance for both Palestinians in Gaza and Israelis.

If your congressional representative has not signed on to the above letter, please urge them to do so.

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