Saturday, May 14, 2005
 StopTheWarNow.net May 12, 2005: A coalition of organizations is calling for a peaceful demonstration on Monday, May 23 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the 2005 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference being held May 22 to 24th at the DC Convention Center. We will gather on Massachusetts Avenue at 7th Street NW.
We do so to protest Israel’s continued occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, its building of a separation wall through the West Bank and its current expansion of settlements, which will cut off an additional 250,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem from the rest of Palestine and implement a system of de facto apartheid in the occupied territories. We protest any appearance by Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, who for over 50 years has been involved in a series of war crimes, including the massacres at Sabra and Shatilla.
We also protest AIPAC’s role in supporting Ariel Sharon and other Israeli officials’ threats to take military actions against Iran’s nuclear energy facilities and their efforts to involve the United States in such attacks. Two AIPAC officials, recently fired after months of vigorous public support by AIPAC, have been implicated in press reports as having received "highly classified" information on Iran from Defense Department analyst Larry Franklin, who has been arrested in the case, and possibly passing the information on to the state of Israel.
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To endorse this call and be listed in the press release e-mail aipacprotest@earthlink.net by close of business May 16, 2005. Feel free to include a web page link, e-mail or phone contact for email announcements.
Current Endorsers:
Council for the National Interest http://cnionline.org
DC Anti-War Network http://dawndc.net
StopTheWarNow.Net http://stopthewarnow.net
Washington DC Area Chapter American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee http://adc.org
Washington DC Area Stop U.S. Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now! (SUSTAIN) http://sustaincampaign.org
Women for Peace and Justice in Iran http://women4peace.org
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