Open Letter to Obama: US aid to Israel should be contingent on compliance with the law.

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Written by Jewish Voice for Peace Jewish Voice for Peace
Published: 20 November 2012 20 November 2012
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Dear friend,

1. *Call the White House
right now
202-456-1414 or
202-456-1111 *
and ask President Obama to act:
Stop the Bombs. Stop the Siege. Stop Payment on the Israeli Military's Blank Check.

2. *Organize or attend a protest in your area [ http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/301/p/salsa/event/common/public/search.sjs?distributed_event_KEY=702 ]*

3. *Sign the
Open Letter to Obama: [ http://www.obamaletter.org/ ]*
US aid to Israel should be contingent on compliance
with the law.

The news coming out of Gaza and Israel these past few days has been truly horrifying. Drones and F-16s are dropping bombs over densely populated Gaza, which continues to be under Israel's control from infrastructure to border. Twenty Palestinians have been killed. Rockets being launched out of Gaza have killed three Israeli civilians.

This Operation "Pillar of Defense" is being paid for thanks to the blank check the Israeli military receives from the US government. Even as we take to the streets to call for an immediate cessation of the bombings into Gaza, the rocket attacks into civilian communities in Israel, and an end to the ongoing siege of Gaza, we are aware that more is required.

Now is the time to demand Obama take decisive action that honors all the lives being lost.

*Click here: http://www.ObamaLetter.org [ http://www.obamaletter.org/ ]*

Even before Israel's escalation of violence, we were calling for an end to the Israeli military's blank check along with a growing coalition of Jews, Christians, Muslims and human rights and solidarity activists. Together we are asking President Obama to make sure aid to Israel doesn't continue to violate US laws which specifically prohibit assistance to any country which engages in a consistent pattern of human rights violations.

Now is the time to make sure the US stops payment on the Israeli military's blank check. As Hillel the Elder taught: "If not now, when?"

Please join me in *signing this open letter to Obama.* [ http://www.obamaletter.org/ ]

With hope,

Rabbi Alissa Wise
Jewish Voice for Peace

Click here: http://www.ObamaLetter.org

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