March 2003 Postcard

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DEAR SENATOR or REPRESENTATIVE:

The disruption of the 2002 Palestinian olive harvest by Israeli settlers and armed forces in the occupied territories has been devastating to an already suffering Palestinian economy. American taxpayers are funding the Jewish-only settlements and bypass roads used to justify the uprooting of 200,000 Palestinian olive trees, and the bulldozers used to uproot them.

Even worse are revelations in Israeli news reports that some of these uprooted Palestinian trees, many of them hundreds of years old, are being sold illegally to rich Israelis and town councils for thousands of dollars each. These sales are being conducted with the complicity of officials in the “civil administration,” the Israeli occupation government.

The United States should not be complicit in the destruction of Palestinian society. Until Israel agrees to abide by international law by dismantling its illegal settlements, ending its illegal occupation, and allowing Palestinians the right to harvest their crops, please vote to freeze all U.S. aid to Israel.