September 2012 Postcard

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DEAR PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA:

As you approach the end of your first term in office, the Israel-Palestine conflict is as intractable as ever. Despite the fact that Israel remains 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. Providing Israel with billions of dollars in U.S. aid has not moved the region any closer to peace.

Mr. President, it is time to reassess the U.S. approach toward this conflict. Rather than continuing with the status quo, the U.S. ought to make the strategic and moral calculation that providing money to a nation that oppresses half of its population is not in the best interest of the U.S., Israel, Palestine, or the citizens of all three countries.

DEAR SENATOR:

Through its bills and resolutions that provide Israel with American money and moral support, Congress has long fostered a special relationship between the U.S. and Israel. However, as peace between Israel and Palestine remains as distant as ever, one must critically analyze just what Washington’s unflinching support for Israel has achieved.

Israel remains a brutal occupier that continues to defiantly expand its illegal settlements despite the condemnation of the U.S. and the rest of the global community. In a time of economic hardship, your constituents’ tax dollars are being sent to a nation that blatantly disregards basic human rights and stalls any move to peace. Our country’s knee-jerk support for Israel has gone on for too long and has only born rotten fruit. For the long-term good of Americans, Israelis and Palestinians alike, U.S. aid to Israel must be suspended.

DEAR REPRESENTATIVE:

Through its bills and resolutions that provide Israel with American money and moral support, Congress has long fostered a special relationship between the U.S. and Israel. However, as peace between Israel and Palestine remains as distant as ever, one must critically analyze just what Washington’s unflinching support for Israel has achieved.

Israel remains a brutal occupier that continues to defiantly expand its illegal settlements despite the condemnation of the U.S. and the rest of the global community. In a time of economic hardship, your constituents’ tax dollars are being sent to a nation that blatantly disregards basic human rights and stalls any move to peace. Our country’s knee-jerk support for Israel has gone on for too long and has only born rotten fruit. For the long-term good of Americans, Israelis and Palestinians alike, U.S. aid to Israel must be suspended.

As Israel continues to defy the international community by building illegal settlements in Palestinian territory, the U.S. refuses to hold it accountable for its human rights abuses. To the contrary, on July 17 the House of Representatives affirmed Washington’s blind allegiance to the rogue state of Israel by passing a bill full of pro-Israel rhetoric and defense goodies for the Jewish state.

AIPAC-backed S. 2165 affirms “the enduring commitment of the U.S. to the security of Israel” and provides Israel with tankers, munitions and other defense items so that it may maintain its “qualitative military edge” in the region.

That the U.S. maintains such a tight-knit relationship with Israel despite its continued treatment of Muslims and Christians as lesser human beings is unacceptable. Israel’s policies are inconsistent with treasured American values, and the White House must therefore speak out to stop the flow of U.S. money and machinery to the illegal occupier.