ZOA Condemns Sec'y Rice For Making Most Pro-Palestinian Speech In Memory By U.S. Administration Official
October 16, 2006
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Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500
Friends, don't waste your time responding to ZOA, instead, take their arguments and Rice's words and write your local paper. Also, be SURE to share the ZOA attack on Rice with your pro-Israeli policy and lawmakers, especially US Republican ones.
The only issue the ZOA skipped, in their reply to Rice, is the DENIED ENTRY issue...note this news from today's Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth:
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US Complains: Israel Discriminates Against Americans
Yedioth Ahronoth 18.10.2006 (p. 2) by Itamar Eichner - The United States State Department lodged a formal complaint with the Israeli authorities via the Israeli embassy in Washington, asserting that Israel has obstructed and restricted the entry and exit of American citizens of Palestinian origins to and from the territories.
The complaint was lodged at the personal request of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. American officials allege that Israel has adopted a new and deliberate policy that amounts to discrimination against American citizens.
A wave of complaints began in April 2006, and it has not abated since. Many of the people in question are affluent Americans of Palestinian origin who acceded the call that was made by the US administration to help build the Palestinian Authority and to invest in its economy. Diplomatic officials said these were precisely the people whose favor the United States wanted to curry.
A spokesman at the US embassy in Tel Aviv said last night in response: "we are aware that American citizens suffer difficulties entering and leaving the West Bank and Gaza, but we have not received any formal information about a change in Israeli policy. We leave it to the Israeli government to explain its policy."
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WE MUST ALL REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS THIS WEEK TO REVERSE THIS DENIED ENTRY POLICY.
Awaiting US action on DENIED ENTRY,
Sam
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