Over 10,000 American Jews Petition Sharon and Bush to Bring the Israeli Settlers Home to Israel
Jewish peace group supports responsible disengagement and settlement evacuation
CHICAGO - Brit Tzedek v'Shalom/The Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, a grassroots U.S. peace organization seeking a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, today submitted over 10,000 signatures of American Jews calling on the Israeli and U.S. governments to provide funding to assist settlers to voluntarily relocate from the West Bank to Israel proper (within the pre-1967 borders).
The signatures were delivered today to President George Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Washington, D.C. by Brit Tzedek representatives. The Prime Minister and the President are meeting this week to discuss Mr. Sharon's proposal to disengage from the Gaza Strip and to evacuate a small number of West Bank settlements.
Among the signers of the "Call To Bring the Settlers Home to Israel," which was launched last May, is a diverse group, including: actors Theodore Bikel and Ed Asner; rabbis Arthur Hertzberg and Sue Levi Elwell; writers Michael Chabon, Grace Paley, Ariel Dorfman, Art Spiegelman and Vivian Gornick; feminist Gloria Steinem; scholars Robert J. Lifton, Morton Halperin, Ian Lustick and Herbert C. Kelman; journalists Studs Terkel, Katha Pollit and Eric Alterman; physicist Edward Witten; and playwright Tony Kushner.
In anticipation of Prime Minister Sharon's meeting with President Bush at the White House, Brit Tzedek called on its more than 16,000 members and supporters to flood the White House and Congress with qualified support for Prime Minister Sharon's disengagement proposal.......
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