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Houstonians
for Peace & Justice in the Holy Land
P.O.Box 740943, Houston, Texas 77274
713-762-2228
Joined by people of good will, Houston’s
Arab-Christians and Muslims strongly condemn the Israeli military machine’s
use of excessive force and violence directed at a defenseless Palestinian,
civilian population.
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ISRAEL’S 33 YEAR BRUTAL MILITARY OCCUPATION
It
is the cause of the current killing specifically targeting Palestinian children
by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers
People of good conscience worldwide further
condemn the repressive Israeli governmental policies that encourage its soldiers
and settlers to slaughter Palestinian civilians. We reaffirm our call for
justice and peace in the Middle East and demand:
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Immediate international
intervention to end the criminal acts committed against the Palestinian
people by Israeli soldiers and settlers as documented by Amnesty
International
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Stop all U.S. military aid
to Israel that is currently financing the killing of Palestinians
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An immediate implementation
of all relevant UN resolutions creating a Palestinian state with East
Jerusalem as its capital
- Israeli
negotiators must address the real requirements of peace, not the policies of
control that inflict pain, verbally and physically, on the occupied
Palestinian population.
- No one on earth can expect Palestinians to
voluntarily give up their property, identity and human rights
In
the last seven years since the handshake on the White House Lawn heralded the
peace process, Palestinians have seen:
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Israel forcibly
expropriate more
Palestinian land to build Jewish-only settlements
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Israel demolish
hundreds of Palestinian homes annually
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Israel strangle
the Palestinian economy creating more poverty
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Israel gerrymander
the future state of Palestine into several separate enclaves cut off from
one another and surrounded by Jewish-only bypass roads and checkpoints
- Israel
force
frequent closures that turn Palestinian towns into collective prisons not
allowing Arabs out to buy food, medicine, go to doctors, hospitals or
schools
The
excessive use of overwhelming force is done by the Israeli military. Palestinian young men and boys throwing rocks are the victims
targeted by the Israeli forces. To quell the violence, tell Israel to stand
down, these rocks are not reaching the Israeli borders.
September
28 through November 2:
Palestinians killed: 171
Israelis killed: 12
Palestinians injured: 8,000
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