[WCUSP] Pelosi and pro-Israeli line

[yvonne simmons]

the 
minority leader's attack on [President] Carter [for
writing a book 
mentioning Israeli apartheid] is in line with what
they describe as a 
straight-A record on Israel... On matters concerning
the Jewish state 
Nancy 
Pelosi is as mainstream as they get, sticking to a
pro-Israeli line 
ever 
since she entered Congress... AIPAC [the pro-Israel
lobby group] 
includes a 
laudatory quote from Pelosi on its website. Leader
Pelosi has a perfect 
record of support for the U.S.-Israel relationship and
has demonstrated 
leadership on a host of our issues, spokeswoman
Jennifer Cannata 
said..." 
The Forward, (one of the oldest and most successful
establishment 
Jewish 
publications in America).

“There will be some Democratic chairmen who may not
share all my views 
or 
have as clear a perspective on Israel as I do, But
they will not be 
chairing 
committees dealing with Israel and the Middle East."
Rep. Henry Waxman 
(D-California) in an on-line chat with Zionist
supporters, sponsored by 
the 
House Democratic caucus.

Can we work to expose the lies (and expose the
attempts to silence 
Jewish 
anti-Zionist voices)?  Can we work to prevent Zionists
from pushing for 
more 
wars that are contrary to US (and Israeli and
Palestinian) public 
interest, 
from justifying more human rights violations, and from
advocating more 
torture and destruction using our tax money?  Can we
learn from history 
that 
social movements for peace and justice happen by grass
root movements 
BETWEEN elections and not at the polling booth? (see
for example the 
civil 
rights movement, the right of women to vote, ending
support for 
apartheid 
South Africa, ending the war on Vietnam etc). So call
your elected 
officials 
and ask for meetings on behalf of your local group and
if you do not 
have a 
local group build it. Speak truth to power and if they
do not listen, 
demonstrate at their offices often and write to the
media.

After the alert we posted, 19 civilians were massacred
in Gaza, most 
women 
and children including 17 members of the same family.
Amnesty 
International 
"called for an immediate, independent investigation
and for those 
responsible to be held accountable ... previous
Israeli investigations, 
such 
as that carried out into the killings of a Palestinian
family on a 
beach in 
the Gaza Strip last June, had been seriously
inadequate and failed to 
meet 
international standards for such investigations, which
must be 
independent, 
impartial and thorough."



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