Postcards Index

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October 2022 Postcard As the recent devastating floods in Pakistan show, there is no shortage of people in need of humanitarian assistance across the world. And yet, the overwhelming majority of U.S. foreign aid goes toward funding foreign militaries. Until the recent explosion of spending on Ukraine, the largest annual foreign recipient of U.S. military aid was Israel.

August/September 2022 Postcard The 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi pushed lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to demand the U.S. hold Saudi Arabia accountable. Four years later, his death still casts a palpable cloud over our relations with Riyadh. Following the recent killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israel, Democratic and Republican lawmakers demanded an independent U.S. investigation.

June/July 2022 Postcard U.S. aid has helped make Israel’s military one of the most advanced in the world. The U.S. government’s foreign assistance agency claims that the purpose of this aid is to ensure that Israel is secure enough to facilitate reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians. Despite this stated aim, Israel’s actions over the past 70 years tell a story of aggression and oppression.

May 2022 Postcard “Why was Israel so slow to say anything about Russia and Ukraine?” asked Israeli journalist Gideon Levy at the March 4 “Transcending the Israel Lobby at Home and Abroad” conference. There are likely a few reasons for Israel’s initial silence on the issue, but among them one stands out: Israel’s own disregard for international norms.

March 2022 Postcard On February 1, Amnesty International joined a growing number of independent human rights groups in determining that the Israeli government operates an apartheid regime. Despite its well-documented evidence, the U.S. government rejected the Amnesty report.

January/February 2022 Postcard U.S. foreign aid ought to be a means towards facilitating a world that is safer and more secure for Americans. Yet, the bulk of our foreign aid is currently dedicated to “stabilizing” regimes, such as the current one in Egypt, that have very little regard for human rights.

November/December 2021 Postcard While Congress was debating $1 billion dollars in additional aid to Israel in September, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) discouraged her colleagues from sending more money to a country accused of “apartheid” by humanitarian organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Israel’s own B’Tselem.

October 2021 Postcard In 1955, the poet Philip Larkin wrote, “Our flesh surrounds us with its own decisions.” Our post-9/11 foreign policy has mired America in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the latter being our longest foreign war. Now, as America withdraws from Afghanistan, the Taliban has seized control of the country. What have we learned?

August/September 2021 Postcard Alongside military aid given to Israel every year, U.S. charities sent approximately $220 million to Israeli settler organizations between 2009 and 2013. According to Alex Kane of the Intercept, many of these organizations are directly involved with the ongoing forced eviction of some 2,000 Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.

June/July 2021 Postcard Although the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas may have restored a veneer of normalcy to the crisis in Israel-Palestine, the reality on the ground is far from normal. The Israeli military and police persist in their brutal oppression of Palestinian civilians, and residents of East Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah still live under the constant threat of violent displacement by Jewish settlers.

May 2021 Postcard Israel is slated to demolish 100 homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan and evict 169 Palestinians from their homes in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. In the former case, the homes are being demolished to facilitate the creation of a theme park.

March/April 2021 Postcard Israel is an apartheid state. This is not the opinion of a fringe organization. Rather, this is the conclusion recently reached by B’Tselem, Israel’s leading civil rights organization.

January/February 2021 Postcard Now is not the time to ratchet up tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Four years of harsh sanctions, assassinations and threats have only served to strengthen Iran’s nuclear program and bring us dangerously close to another war.

November/December 2020 Postcard (If there’s one thing COVID-19 has taught us, it’s the lesson that we cannot go it alone. Humans need to interact and connect with each other.)

October 2020 Postcard (Home is a sanctuary for the vulnerable as well as for the heroes on the frontline fighting COVID-19.)

August/September 2020 Postcard (I urge you to support cutting off aid to Israel if it proceeds with plans to annex Palestinian land and impose its sovereignty over as much as 30 percent of the West Bank.)

June/July 2020 Postcard (Please urge Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to provide badly needed aid to the Palestinian people.)

March/April 2020 Postcard (It’s painfully clear to objective observers that President Trump’s Israel-Palestine “peace plan” is simply a green light for Israel to do as it wishes.)

January/February 2020 Postcard (Across Washington, DC, politicians regularly enjoy bountiful meals and open bars.)

November/December 2019 Postcard (By this time next year, the U.N. estimates the Gaza Strip will be unlivable—in part thanks to unconditional U.S. support for Israel.)

October 2019 Postcard (From the colonial boycott of British goods, to the 1950s bus boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama, the First Amendment right to boycott is a fundamental and cherished freedom.)

August/September 2019 Postcard (Decades of U.S. wars in the Middle East have left the region less secure, cost over a million lives, helped breed new extremist groups and perpetuated the cycle of war and violence.)

June/July 2019 Postcard (Continuous U.S. intervention in the Middle East has contributed to further destabilizing the region, such as the creation of the Islamic State, and has had dire consequences in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen.)

May 2019 Postcard (Americans are becoming increasingly frustrated by the negative impact Israel’s lobby is having on our political process.)

March/April 2019 Postcard (President Trump has decided to cut all humanitarian aid to Palestine, a move that will make ordinary Palestinians suffer for no discernible reason. What does this move accomplish? Nothing, except for imposing unnecessary suffering.)

January/February 2019 Postcard (Years of disasters, including wars, gang violence and the impacts from climate change—fires, droughts and floods—have caused the displacement of hundreds of millions of people. According to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres,“Unregulated migration bears a terrible human cost: a cost in lives lost on perilous journeys across deserts, oceans and rivers; and a cost in lives ruined at the hands of smugglers, unscrupulous employers and other predators...More than 60,000 migrants have died on the move since the year 2000,” he said.)

November/December 2018 Postcard (Four years of failed rains have led to massive loss of livelihoods for half a million Afghans in the northwestern province of Badghis. Ninety-five percent of the population there rely on agriculture, livestock and crops to survive. People have been left without water or enough food to feed their families.)

October 2018 Postcard (The U.S. gives billions in military assistance to Israel every year. It protects Israel at the U.N., and ensures Tel Aviv has a qualitative military advantage in the region. No country has a larger lobby in Washington. No country is the recipient of more congratulatory or supportive resolutions and bills in Congress. While we give in excess to Israel, we petulantly cut aid to Palestine. This is inexcusable.)

August/September 2018 Postcard (The people of Palestine rely on American support for vital institutions such as education and health care. I believe you already know this. How, then, can one be justified in supporting a freeze on the funding for these vital institutions? How can you justify playing an active role in the diminishing of the quality of life of millions of Palestinians?)

June/July 2018 Postcard (Palestinians have asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate “insurmountable” evidence of Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on Palestinian territory. Who ordered Israeli troops to use live fire on thousands of people demonstrating at the fence separating Gaza from Israel? The Hague should investigate if those orders included instructions to aim for the head or limbs of protesters, journalists and medics. Those leaders were in clear violation of international law and should be prosecuted for war crimes. Lock them up!)

May 2018 Postcard (Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the negative impact Israel’s influence can have on our political process. Nowhere was this clearer than on March 2, 2018 at the National Press Club, where despite hurricane-force winds that shut down the government and schools, hundreds of people gathered to discuss “The Israel Lobby and American Policy.“ The variety of speakers at the conference advocating diplomacy, dialogue, justice, freedom of speech, and peace stood in stark contrast to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, where only pro-Israel voices advocating wars without end were heard.)

March/April 2018 Postcard (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is not political. It is a vital humanitarian organization that provides education, health care and financial assistance to more than five million refugees in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. To cut funding to UNRWA is to show an utter disregard for the well-being of Palestinian refugees, not to mention the stability of the region. It is thus both morally and strategically unwise to use these long-suffering refugees as political pawns.)

January/February 2018 Postcard (In one week you reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah by some two million acres, the largest federal land protection giveaway in U.S. history. Millions of preserved public acres can now be spoiled by oil and gas extraction, mining, logging and other commercial activities. What a deal.)

November/December 2017 Postcard (The Iran nuclear agreement (JCPOA) was not a disastrous deal for America. As the world continues to watch North Korea, we have the opportunity to show that diplomacy with the U.S. works. I urge you to choose the path of peace and diplomacy, and to support Congress in making the decision to follow our commitments under the JCPOA. Please put the interests of our country above those advocated by lobbyists.)

October 2017 Postcard (As the world focused its attention on North Korean missile launches and Hurricane Harvey, defiant remarks by Israel’s leader flew under the radar. Just days after White House adviser Jared Kushner and diplomatic envoy Jason Greenblatt were in the Middle East trying to restart peace talks, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Jewish settlers that he has no intention of dismantling Israeli settlements in the West Bank in exchange for peace with Palestinians.)

August/September 2017 Postcard (Unending U.S. intervention in the Middle East and other hotspots has done little to bring peace and stability to the region. Sixteen years later, the U.S. is still fighting an endless war in Afghanistan, and is now considering expanding its presence in Syria. With this in mind, I strongly urge you to show courage by rejecting the siren call of hasty military entanglement and look for any and all ways to peacefully de-escalate conflicts across the planet.)

June/July 2017 Postcard (The federal government currently spends 20 times as much on the military as it does on diplomacy and development. Recent foreign policy deals encourage weapon sales to Saudi Arabia and gift billions of dollars to Israel for military spending, but fail to outline concrete actions to create a lasting peace in the Middle East.)

May 2017 Postcard (Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the negative impact Israel’s influence can have on our political process. Nowhere was this clearer than on March 24, 2017 at the National Press Club, where more than 600 people gathered to discuss “The Israel Lobby and American Policy.“ The variety of speakers at the conference—Israeli, Palestinian and American—stood in stark contrast to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference,where only pro-Israel voices were heard.)

March/April 2017 Postcard (As you have seen in your first weeks in office, Israel continues to build new settlements, despite warnings from its friends in the U.S. In spite of their indifference to our opinion, we continue to send Israel roughly $4 billion every year. Does that sound like a good deal for America?)

January/February 2017 Postcard (It is essential to consider the effective and efficient use of our country’s financial resources. The Department of Defense has wasted $125 billion in its business operations, according to a report issued in 2015 and revealed only recently. The Pentagon has a $580 billion budget—a budget more than double that of the next biggest spender, China.)

November/December 2016 Postcard (For 49 years, Israel has been expanding into Palestinian land. Since 2009 alone, about 11,000 settlement units have been constructed, and the total settler population is now over 500,000. That‘s 500,000 Israelis living outside their country’s borders, on Palestinian land, in settlements deemed illegal by international law.)

October 2016 Postcard (It’s been more than a year since the tragic death of Aylan Kurdi, 3, the Syrian refugee child who was found drowned on a beach in Türkiye. His photo inspired worldwide sympathy for the world’s refugees escaping war. Since Kurdi’s drowning more than 4,000 people, including hundreds of children, have lost their lives in the Mediterranean. There are 4.8 million registered Syrian refugees and an additional 6.5 million internally displaced within Syria.)

August/September 2016 Postcard (We live in an era of uncertainty—an era ravaged by violence, war, and a looming international hatred for the U.S. This nation has undoubtedly caused a great deal of pain in the world, but it has also tried hard to provide relief. Over the last six decades, the Fulbright Student Program has fostered relationships between Americans and people abroad—an invaluable, but often dismissed, aspect of diplomacy.)

June/July 2016 Postcard (I urge you to support the appointment of a "Special Envoy for Palestinian Youth," as proposed by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN). Such an envoy would help ensure that the State Department makes the human rights of Palestinian children a priority, and holds Israeli and Palestinian governments accountable to their obligations under international law.)

May 2016 Postcard (Many Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the negative impact Israel’s influence can have on our political process. Nowhere was this clearer than on March 18, 2016 at the National Press Club, where more than 400 people gathered to discuss the influence of the Israel lobby on Congress, the mainstream media, universities and other institutions.)

March/April 2016 Postcard (The ongoing presidential election campaign has revealed that Americans are increasingly concerned about the influence of money in politics. As an elected official, it is important that you listen to the voices of your constituents—and not just special interest groups and lobbyists—on difficult issues.)

January/February 2016 Postcard (The House of Representatives passed legislation in November that would halt this country’s Syrian refugee program in the wake of the Paris attacks, even though none of the attackers have been proven to be refugees.)

November/December 2015 Postcard (Although the passage of the Iran deal is to be celebrated as an historic piece of diplomacy, the proposed increase in military aid to Israel is to be deplored. As we saw in Israel’s 2014 onslaught on Gaza, our own foreign policy interests and Israel’s hard-line interests increasingly do not align.)

October 2015 Postcard (Now that the Iran nuclear deal is concluded and most Americans have access to medical insurance, two major hurdles are behind you. Most Americans appreciate our country’s use of diplomatic skills instead of military might to solve seemingly intractable international and national problems.)

September 2015 Postcard (Some have suggested that a better nuclear deal with Iran could be negotiated if Congress rejects the current one. While this makes for a good sound bite, it is not supported by the facts. Iran experts agree that the Islamic Republic would scoff at the notion of re-entering talks with the U.S.)

August 2015 Postcard (Do you know what American taxpayer money to Israel supports? Among other things, it funds the IDF’s detention of thousands of Palestinian children—8,000 since 2000—who are pulled from their beds in the middle of the night, often beaten, denied access to their parents, food or a lawyer, and held without charge.)

June/July 2015 Postcard (“Separate but equal” is thankfully no longer an official policy of the U.S. government. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Israel. In Upper Nazareth, the mayor has refused to stock a single Arabic book in the city’s libraries, even though the language is spoken by 20 percent of the city’s population and is one of Israel’s official languages.)

May 2015 Postcard (It is time to disentangle ourselves or simply break the knots that tie us to Israel. It’s time to end our “special relationship” with Israel, along with all U.S. financial, military and diplomatic aid. It is time for the U.S. to stop shielding Israel from the consequences of its illegal actions and assaults on Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.)

March/April 2015 Postcard (It’s been well established by countless reputable experts that reaching a nuclear deal with Iran is vastly preferable to the alternative of war. Polls have shown the American people also prefer diplomacy to military confrontation.)

January/February 2015 Postcard (Refugees in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Türkiye and Palestine are facing another brutal winter. This vulnerable population is in urgent need of medical assistance, food and such winter essentials as stoves, blankets and heaters. The U.N.’s World Food Program (WFP) was forced to suspend aid on Dec. 1 because it simply had run out of money.)

November/December 2014 Postcard (Gazans need far more than $5.4 billion to help them repair their homes, schools, hospitals and businesses destroyed in Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge.” They need their borders opened and the free flow of building materials.)

October 2014 Postcard (As if its recent destruction of Palestinian lives and property wasn’t enough, Israel is now moving ahead with another illegal appropriation of Palestinian land—this time nearly 1,000 acres of land near Bethlehem. If this plan moves forward, it will be the single largest theft of West Bank land in decades.)

September 2014 Postcard (Over the past month, I, along with countless others across the United States and the world, have taken to the streets, social media sites, and other forums to express my deep concerns over Israel’s latest military operation in Gaza. I see the images of death and destruction and realize what Israel is doing is excessive and wrong.)

August 2014 Postcard (There are countless examples of U.S. citizens, particularly those of Arab or Muslim heritage, being discriminated against while attempting to enter Israel. They are stripped of their rights—and sometimes their clothes!—and often detained and deported.)

June/July 2014 Postcard (Imagine this scenario: Your family is sleeping peacefully when, in the middle of the night, armed soldiers storm your home, place your child in a van and speed off. The armed men do not tell you where they are taking your child or why he or she is being captured like a terrorist.)

May 2014 Postcard (I invite you to assess some of the facts presented at the summit. Israel receives more than $3.1 billion in U.S. aid every year even though it is one of the richest countries in the world, with a higher average income level than the European Union, one of the strongest militaries in the world and the fourth best healthcare system in the world (far above the U.S.).)

March/April 2014 Postcard (Over a decade after Maj. Gen. Michael Lehnert helped open the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, he is hoping to play an active role in facilitating the prison’s closing. “It’s time to get back to the rule of law, both domestic and international, and close Guantanamo,” the general recently told the Miami Herald.)

January/February 2014 Postcard (After years of dealing with hardliners in Tehran, the U.S. finally has a negotiating partner that is willing to ease the rhetoric and hash-out long-standing issues. Furthermore, President Hassan Rouhani and his boss, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are desperate for a nuclear deal, as Iran’s economy is suffering under sanctions. Rouhani is so invested in peace that he has tied the success of his domestic agenda to the success of peace talks.)

December 2013 Postcard (While President Obama was in Jerusalem, he urged Israelis to see the conflict through Palestinian eyes. If you followed this advice and truly looked at the world from a Palestinian perspective, your view would most likely be obscured by a new illegal settlement project, a military checkpoint or a massive wall that restricted your day-to-day movement and separated you from other parts of your community. You might hear the distant rumbling of Israeli bulldozers, night raids and air strikes. What you wouldn’t hear is condemnation from Capitol Hill.)

October/November 2013 Postcard (According to your FY 2014 budget request, Israel will continue to receive billions of dollars in American aid—at a time when millions of Americans are suffering from unemployment as a result of the sequestration and a sluggish economy. Instead of sending our money overseas, should we not invest in our own country; in honest, hard-working Americans?)

September 2013 Postcard (The U.S.-operated Bagram detention center in Afghanistan continues to hold detainees—mainly Pakistanis—without charges in its facilities, violating the detainees’ basic human rights. Despite numerous allegations of torture at Bagram, much like at Guantanamo, the U.S. refuses to shut down the facility, even as it prepares to withdraw.)

August 2013 Postcard (Following the election of moderate Iranian presidential candidate Hassan Rowhani, you expressed hope for improved U.S.-Iran relations. Mr. Rowhani has done the same, pledging to “follow the path of moderation and justice and not extremism.”)

June/July 2013 Postcard (You of course are aware that 86 of Guantanamo’s 166 detainees have been cleared for release. You must know that more than 140 prisoners have never been charged with a crime and were turned over to the U.S. in exchange for bounty payments.)

May 2013 Postcard (On March 21 you told an audience in Jerusalem that no Israeli children should go to bed fearing that a rocket might land in their bedroom. Indeed, you are correct. However, Mr. President, what about Palestinian children? In 2012, 44 Palestinian children lost their lives at the hands of Israel. Thankfully, no young Israelis lost their lives.)

April 2013 Postcard (I am sure that you want America to be viewed as a respected superpower that uses its influence to bring about global peace, security and justice. In order for this vision to be a reality, our country must carry out a consistent and moral foreign policy.)

March 2013 Postcard (It is time to take a stand—one that is morally sound and will help advance peace in the Holy Land. Congress must urge President Barack Obama to tell the Israeli government that it cannot continue to construct illegal settlements on Palestinian land.)

January/February 2013 Postcard (In 2013 we hope you will focus on improving America’s standing in the Arab world. If you put Arab/Israeli peace on the front-burner you will salvage our relationships with the entire Muslim world.)

November/December 2012 Postcard (When Palestine requests non-member state status at the U.N. in November, I ask that the United States boldly offers its approval and support. As you know, the Palestinian people have languished under the harsh reality of occupation for many decades.)

October 2012 Postcard (Busy forecasting the geopolitical strategic implications of their actions, leaders all too often fail to consider the impact their decisions have on ordinary people.)

September 2012 Postcard (As you approach the end of your first term in office, the Israel-Palestine conflict is as intractable as ever. Despite the fact that Israelremains in defiance of international law, the United States continues to provide it with the money and machinery it needs to maintain and expand its control over Palestinian territory.)

August 2012 Postcard (Since 2009, American drone strikes in Pakistan have killed between 1,200 and 2,800 individuals, hundreds of whom are known to have been innocent civilians. Indeed, the New America Foundation recently estimated that innocent civilians represent between 11 and 17 percent of Pakistan’s drone victims.)

June/July 2012 Postcard (Despite indications that Iran and the West appear to have made progress in nuclear negotiations at an April summit in Istanbul, many members of Congress remain dead set in their demands that you ditch diplomacy and instead fast-track the use of force against Iran.)

May 2012 Postcard (Countless polls conducted in recent months have clearly shown that Americans are tired of war. Nevertheless, indications remain that your administration has taken little action to ease tensions with Iran.)

March/April 2012 Postcard (On the second day of your presidency you declared that the use of torture would no longer have a place in the United States and that you would close the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba within a year.)

Jan/Feb 2012 Postcard (As winter falls, Palestinian families are facing a financial crisis triggered by the shortfall of millions of dollars in foreign aid and frozen tax funds.)

December 2011 Postcard (Ever since the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) emerged from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1951, it has clashed with U.S. law enforcement.)

November 2011 Postcard (Palestinians see being a U.N. member state as completely compatible with negotiations—not, as Israel charges, incompatible. (As you know, Israel did not negotiate with the Palestinians before declaring itself a state.) Nor is the Palestinian bid unilateral. Appealing to the 193-member U.N. is the essence of multilateralism.)

Sept/Oct 2011 Postcard (Please do not veto the Palestinians’ formal request for membership in the United Nations. Israel and its American supporters are mobilizing all their energy to counter the Palestinians’ efforts to become a member state.)

August 2011 Postcard (Palestinians have waited long enough for a state of their own. Israel was given the right to statehood by U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181, passed on Nov. 29, 1949.)

July 2011 Postcard (Please don’t wait until the end of 2014 to bring our troops home from Afghanistan. Bring them home now.)

May/June 2011 Postcard (Jonathan Pollard placed me and every other American at risk when he channeled over 1 million top-secret documents to Israel. Reporter Seymour Hersh reports that many of the stolen documents likely ended up in the Soviet Union.)

April 2011 Postcard (You and Congress pledged to examine the budget line by line to eliminate programs that we can’t afford and don’t work. Why don’t you cut U.S. aid to Israel?)

March 2011 Postcard (It’s not popular to discuss cutting our massive defense budget, but—as U.S. debt reached $13.6 trillion in 2010 and is estimated to climb to $19.6 trillion by 2015, according to a June 2010 Treasury Department report—it’s time to talk.)

January/February 2011 Postcard (Jonathan Jay Pollard, the former civilian Naval intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty to spying for Israel, was sentenced to life in prison in 1987.)

December 2010 Postcard (On Nov. 11, 1962 the Department of Justice ordered the American Zionist Council (AZC) to register as an Israeli Foreign Agent.)

November 2010 Postcard (Danziger cartoon.)

September/October 2010 Postcard (On July 22, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) introduced House Resolution 1553, which was cosponsored by 46 other members of Congress.)

August 2010 Postcard (On May 31, 14 Israeli Warships attacked a Gaza aid convoy in international waters.)

July 2010 Postcard (Israel’s treatment of Palestinians has been compared to South Africa’s treatment of non-whites during its apartheid era.)

May/June 2010 Postcard (On March 9, only hours after Vice President Joseph Biden reaffirmed unwavering U.S. support for Israel’s security, Israel’s Interior Ministry
revealed plans for 1,600 new housing units in the illegal East Jerusalem settlement of Ramat Shlomo.)

April 2010 Postcard (On Friday Feb. 19 roughly 1,000 demonstrators gathered at the separation fence which divides the West Bank village of Bil’in to protest Israel’s illegal
wall and unrelenting occupation and to mark the fifth anniversary of weekly, nonviolent protests at the site.)

March 2010 Postcard (You’ve probably heard, thanks to Israel’s effective PR campaign, that two jumbo jets landed in Haiti on Jan. 15, carrying an Israeli army search-and-rescue
team as well as 40 doctors and 24 nurses,who set up a badly needed field hospital.)

January/February 2010 Postcard (The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost close to $1 trillion since 2001, according to a recent report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).)

December 2009 Postcard (On Sept. 17, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted a resolution on the application of nuclear safeguards in the Middle East.)

November 2009 Postcard (On Sept. 15, the U.N. Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict released its 574-page report, which provides in-depth analysis of 36 individual incidents in Gaza.)

September/October 2009 Postcard (Bypassing the normal appropriation process, Congress approved an increase of $170 million in aid to Israel on June 26.)

August 2009 Postcard (The work of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem shows that the expansion of settlements has hardly been natural.)

July 2009 Postcard (A rabbi—one of a group of imams, priests and rabbis led by French writer Marek Halter visiting the besieged Gaza Strip—plays basketball with Palestinian children at Christian Holy Family School in Gaza on March 19, 2009.)

May/June 2009 Postcard (On March 22 the German cargo ship Wehr Elbe, chartered by U.S. Military Sealift Command, unloaded thousands of tons of U.S. arms, including some containing white phosphorus, at the Israeli port of Ashdod.)

April 2009 Postcard (Please halt U.S. military aid to Israel. As our own economy falters, we cannot afford to give Israel an average of $7 million per day.)

March 2009 Postcard (I want you to know that I strongly disagree with S.Res.10, “recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself” and “reaffirming the United States’ strong support for Israel,” which passed on Jan. 8 by unanimous consent.)

January/February 2009 Postcard (On the day Americans went to the polls to elect a new president, Nov. 4, 2008, Israel closed all of Gaza’s borders and renewed its raids into Gaza and the West Bank.)

December 2008 Postcard (I am deeply disturbed by the DVD, “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West,” which was distributed to religious leaders and voters around the country.)

November 2008 Postcard (As you prepare for the upcoming elections and begin campaigning in earnest at home during this recess, please listen to your constituents.)

September/October 2008 Postcard (Thanks to the efforts of pro-Israel lobbyists, Congress slipped extra military aid for Israel into an amendment to special legislation covering funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.)

August 2008 Postcard (Meeting in Dublin, Ireland, a group of 111 nations agreed on May 28 to a draft treaty for a global ban on cluster bombs.)

July 2008 Postcard (We’ve been through this before—and it must not happen again. In its verbal attacks on Iran, the Bush administration once again is seeking to portray a foe so dangerous, so threatening that the U.S. has no choice but to launch a pre-emptive attack.)

May/June 2008 Postcard (This year will mark the 60th anniversary of the Arab-Israeli conflict—the perpetuation of which is one of the major sources of instability in the world.)

April 2008 Postcard (The U.S. has recently recognized an independent state of Kosovo, encouraging its separation from Serbia and its march toward self-rule.)

March 2008 Postcard (I urge you to take U.S. foreign policy regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran in a new direction.)

January/February 2008 Postcard (I urge you to encourage both Israelis and Palestinians to take real steps toward establishing a just and lasting agreement leading to peace in Palestine and Israel.)

December 2007 Postcard (Change in the U.S. stance on the Gaza Strip)

November 2007 Postcard (Bring U.S. Troops in Iraq Home Now)

September/October 2007 Postcard (Military Aid to Israel)

August 2007 Postcard (Cluster Bombs)

July 2007 Postcard (It’s time for you to support a peaceful resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict)

May/June 2007 Postcard (Please support the peace plan and end the unjust economic sanctions in the occupied Palestinian territories)

April 2007 Postcard (Please modify Dr. Sami Al-Arian’s current sentence of civil contempt)

March 2007 Postcard (President George W. Bush’s plan for troop escalation in Iraq)

January/February 2007 Postcard (Please help U.S. Citizens in Israel and Palestine who are facing a “silent transfer”)

December 2006 Postcard (Stop using my tax dollars to arm Israel)

November 2006 Postcard (Suspend aid to Israel)

September/October 2006 Postcard (Stop financing Israel's arms procurements)

August 2006 Postcard (Call on both sides in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to negotiate a just peace)

July 2006 Postcard (Call for an official investigation into the 39-year-old USS Liberty tragedy)

May/June 2006 Postcard (Please refrain from taking campaign contributions from pro-Israel PACs)

April 2006 Postcard (Stop the passage of H.R. 4681 and Concurrent Resolution 79)

March 2006 Postcard (Bring down the US-Mexico Wall and Israel's annexation wall)

January/February 2006 Postcard (Protest Caterpillar support for Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people)

December 2005 Postcard (Please investigate White House lies on the war in Iraq)

November 2005 Postcard (Stop spending my tax dollars on Israel)

September/October 2005 Postcard (Israeli Divestment)

August 2005 Postcard (Did President Bush lie to the American people to justify the war in Iraq?)

July 2005 Postcard (Syria withdrew from Lebanon. Israel should leave the West Bank and Gaza)

May/June 2005 Postcard (Improve U.S. image abroad by improving U.S. foreign policy)

April 2005 Postcard (Caterpillar Boycott)

March 2005 Postcard (U.S. Tax Dollars)

January/February 2005 Postcard (Palestinian Elections)

December 2004 Postcard (Christian Peacemaker Teams)

November 2004 Postcard (Economic Costs of the Iraq War)

October 2004 Postcard (Military Checkpoints)

September 2004 Postcard (Separation Wall)

July/August 2004 Postcard (Israel Arms Embargo)

June 2004 Postcard (Extrajudicial Killings)

May 2004 Postcard (Targeted Assassinations)

April 2004 Postcard (Human Rights Activists)

March 2004 Postcard (Support the Refuseniks)

January/February 2004 Postcard (Peace Initiatives)

December 2003 Postcard (Geneva Convention Violations)

November 2003 Postcard (Settlements)

October 2003 Postcard (Augusta Victoria Hospital)

September 2003 Postcard (Separation Wall)

May 2003 Postcard (Rachel Corrie)

April 2003 Postcard (Aid to Israel)

March 2003 Postcard (Olive Harvest)

January/February 2003 Postcard (Aid to Israel)

December 2002 Postcard (U.N. Resolutions)

September/October 2002 Postcard (Right of Return)