To President Obama, Secretary Clinton, Special Envoy Mitchell:
We urge you to use the power of your offices to end the demolition of Palestinian homes in the Israeli Occupied Territories.
Until recently your administration had expressed strong opposition to Israeli settlement expansion. Your statements had given supporters of a peaceful and just solution some hope. The importance of ending Israel’s destructive policy is reflected in the Road Map initiative, led by the US, which calls for the cessation of house demolitions in Phase One. Instead of backing down in the face of Israeli intransigence, we believe you need to do more.
Since 1967, the Israeli government has demolished over 24,000 Palestinian homes -- which families have built on their own land inside the Occupied Territories -- in order to:
- Make room for Israeli settlements, businesses or governmental offices;
- Create Israeli-only “by-pass” roads that allow Israeli settlers to drive to and from their new homes in the Territories while “by-passing” Palestinian towns and villages; and
- Build the Separation Wall deep into the West Bank, effectively annexing large settlement blocs situated on Palestinian land into the State of Israel.
Israel justifies these demolitions on the grounds that Palestinians often build on their own land without Israeli-approved “permits.” However, as the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports, Israel denies 94% of all Palestinian applications for building permits from Palestinian families in the Occupied Territories, and then demolishes Palestinian homes for the failure to have a permit that they cannot obtain. B'tselem, the Israeli Information Center in the Occupied Territories, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, and other Israeli Human Rights groups note that Palestinians in East Jerusalem face the same reality. The Israeli Ministry of Defense acknowledged in 2005 that these home demolitions serve no security purpose and ended its policy of punitive demolitions at that time.
Israel’s house demolition policy is intimately linked to the expansion of Israeli settlements in Occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. This policy is illegal under international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Hague Convention of 1907.
Finally, Israel’s home demolition policy undermines any hope for a just resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as it creates immense suffering for Palestinian families and communities, rendering several generations of a family homeless. To add insult to injury, Palestinian families are often charged with the cost of demolition. This policy also fails to serve either Israeli or US interests. We call upon you, President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and Special Envoy Mitchell, to condemn this policy and forcefully call for the immediate cessation of the Israeli government’s demolition of Palestinian homes.
- Endorsing Organizations
- American Jews for a Just Peace (AJJP)
- Christian Peacemakers Team - Palestine (CPT)
- Council for the National Interest (CNI)
- Free Gaza Movement
- Friends of Sabeel - North America (FOSNA)
- If Americans Knew
- Interfaith Peace Builders (IFPB)
- International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
- Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
- MADRE
- Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA)
- Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
- US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
- Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights
- Holy Land Peace Foundation
- Los Angeles Jews for Peace
- National Lawyers Guild International Committee
- National Lawyers Guild, North Texas Chapter
- The Middle East Study Group of the Diocese of Pennsylvania
- Palestine-Israel Action Committee
- Monterey Arab/Jewish Dialogue Group
- Adalah-NY
- WESPAC-ME
- Alwan for the Arts
- Al-Nakba Awareness Project
- Coalition for Peace with Justice
- The Rebuilding Alliance
- Tours In English
- Citizens for Justice in the Middle East-Kansas City
- Bathurst United Church
- Committee for Peace in Israel and Palestine
- Justice First Foundation
- Sabeel Iowa
- Sabeel South Carolina
- Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine
- Collectif Urgence Palestine-Geneva
- Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Seattle
- Episcopal Peace Fellowship - Southwest Washington
- International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
- Palestine Solidarity Committee - Seattle
- Baltimore Tikkun
- We Are Wide Awake
- Jews for a Just Peace - North Carolina
- Corvallis-Albany Friends of Middle East Peace, Oregon
- Creative Music Productions
- Edmonton Small Press Association
- Educators for Peace and Justice
- Jews Say No!
- Christians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East
- Independent Jewish Voices
- Cincinnati Palestinian Rights Meetup
- Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Coalition To Stop Billion To Israel
- Dominican Sisters of Houston
- Palestinian Rights Committee
- Americans for a Palestinian State
- In His Steps
- Pax Christi Brownsville
- Coalition for Peace in the Middle East, Youngstown
- U.S. Dominicans Palestine Coordinating Committee
- Westchester Women in Black
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- Edith Garwood
- Sana Javed
- Hana Elhattab
Please, enough with the injustice.. - hala
- Mary Tuma
- Basem Hannosh
- David Williams
- Salek Khalid
- Curt Day
The issue of how Israel treats the Palestinians is about equality. Either we support one side against the other employing a gang mentality or we promote equality - Tom Stern
- Glenn S. Bair Jr.
Congressional representatives made a choice to turn their backs on human rights when they voted in favor of resolution 867. Please don't make the same error that congress did. Blind US endorsement of Israeli policy must stop NOW!!
Products advertised on mainstream US media channels are being boycotted by my family until those media outlets present equal coverage of the Israeli property demolitions in the occupied territories of Palestine. - Dr. Hassan Fouda
- Anees Assali
- Brianna Gordon
- Josephine Jaffray
House demolition is just one of the deeply offensive actions of the Israeli government. It is offensive on many levels - I ask how would Netanyahu or Obama feel if their home was demolished. How would they feel if their land was stolen by others who then go on to build homes for themselves. It is so grossly unjust that political games and fear of right wing jewish lobyists must not be a reason to international law. - Judith Kolokoff
Please put your action where your words are. It's time! - virginia Constable Maxell
Forget politics, forget economics, on the simple level of morality these demolitions are outrageous and as such so damaging to the Israel - quite apart from the anguish to the Palestinians. VCM - Linda Frank
There's perhaps no better way to fight the "war on terror" than to start walking our talk. We say we support human rights, but out of the other side our national mouth we support Israel's outright denial of so many human rights for Palestinians. So not only would you save Palestinian homes by calling for a cessation of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, but we could save oodles of money that we're currently wasting on US and Israeli "security." - Linda Heaney
keep up the good work - Marguerite Beck-Rex
As friends to Israel with hearts set on peace for Israelis and Palestinians, as a nation we must urge Israel to stop destroying Palestinian homes and to halt the expansion of homes for Israelis on the West Bank and Palestinian areas of Jerusalem.
The Israeli government shows such callous disregard for Palestinians and such egregious arrogant disregard for the peace process that it is painfully difficult for us as a nation to find ways to work for a peaceful resolution of the Palestine-Israel conflict. President Obama, I urge you to move past the blandishments of AIPAC and others whose view is narrow and blind to their own flaws. Please find some way for our nation to practice what as parents we call "tough love" -- tell Israel when its behavior is shameful, let Israel know that our support is not unconditional. Just as we can't tolerate bullies in our homes, neighborhoods or nation even when we care for them--especially when we care for them--international bullying by our friends cmust not be tolerated either. - Joy Messinger
- Danielle Turner
- Beverly Green Henkel
I have been there and seen the demolition results and visited with families affected. This needs to be stopped. If we did not send money top Israel they could not do this. We are directly involved. I do not want my taz mopney spent this way. - Noah Link
- Mary H Miller
- Mary Allen
These demolitions are heartbreaking and inexcusable. Israel is creating facts on the ground which may soon make a two-state solution impossible. The US should not condone this illegal activity, and we should support the findings of the Goldstone Report. There is no good reason that Israel should be able to dictate American policy in the Middle East. - Patricia J. Huhn
For the first time this a.m. I heard a timid U.S. acknowledgment of house demolitions. It's time to take action. - Jonne Long
- Terry M Allen
- Robert Moyer
- Private Name
- penny harris
- Gabrielle Tarrazi
What is it about illegal, contrary to International Law, abusive,bordering on ethnic cleansing if not so, apartheid, against all Human Rights laws and 90% of the world saying so...THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND? Shame on the US for suppoting and helping in those criminal acts ! - Sherryl Kleinman
The policies bring shame to Jews everywhere, and thus increase anti-Semitism. Without justice there will never be peace for Jews anywhere. - Dr. Denise D. Hopkins
Enough! House demolitions cannot continue. They assault human dignity and block peace. I have lived in Israel and the West Bank and seen the impact. Terror does not make for peace. - Marguerite Warner
- Amy Wilkins
- Sheila Sullivan
This policy must end immediately! - Lauren Campbell
- Dr. Jim Rothwell
- Beatrice Eichten
- R. Martin Smith
- Matthew Ezzell
- David Rosenbaum
It is scandalous that we are allowing Israel's actions against the Palestinians and non-Jews. And it is criminal that we are financing Israel's actions. We could stop it all immediately by saying 'No' and cutting off the taxpayer money that finances the atrocities. - Dee Pope
- Joyce and John Cassel
- Carol Horwitz
It is scandalous that we, as US taxpayers, are paying for Israeli's war crimes against the Palestinian people, including house demolitions. - Leo and Liz Barrington
- Dwight Haberman
I have lived in Palestine and witnessed people carrying their belongings into the street.The women were the last to leave their HOME. I have seen hundreds of other demolished homes where Palestinian families enjoyed family life. 95% of building requests of Palestinians are refused. 95% of Israeli requests are granted. - Claudia Chaufan
- Jane Adas
- Barbara Heisler
- Private Name
- Sarah Ann Donnelly
I have seen the senseless destruction. There is no ligitimate reason to justify these demolition. Enough! - Julianne H. Gustafson-Lira
You. President Obama, were called to be courageous. Do what is right. - Judy Neunuebel
- Dawn Waring
I implore you to do what is right. Stand up to the Israeli government. Justice is the only road to a lasting peace. - Rev. Jerald M. Stinson
I have personally seen many of the destroyed houses and know many people who have been served with demolition orders. This must stop! - Aracy Winter
- Em Scott
- Bernice Youtz
As an American voter, tax-payer, I am appalled that my government permits and funds Israel's illegal and inhuman actions. - Ed Bender
The US cannot allow such abuse to continue - David Crump
- Rev. Darrel Meyers
I have personally seen on dozens of occasions while visiting the Holy Land the scars of dispossesion and destruction o Palestinians and their homes especially in occupied East Jerusalem and Bethlehem. The fact is: this devastation is in direct defiance of scores of UN resolutions, the International Court of Justice, and the stance of the World Council of Churches -- all (and more!) of whom acknowledge that these areas so victimized, along with the rest of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights are OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. Shame on Israel for keeping them and their people so, and shame on our government for its complicity. What an inhumane disgrace for America! -- Rev. Darrel Meyers, Burbank, CA - grace White
Please let the people of Palestine live in peace and dignity - Private Name
- Henie Lustgarten
As a child of Holocaust survivors, I support human rights. Nations should be built on principles of justice, not bigotry. Continued unconditional support for Israel makes the US complicit in crimes against humanity. - Cheri Black
- Stuart Shadwell
- Rebecca Horwitz
- Janet L. Dykstra
- Terry Fletcher
- Karen Platt
You know this is the right thing to do. - Sydney Levy
- Kamal L. Wyatt
Just Peace - Racheli Gai
- Sara Norman
- Michael Levin
- Marita Mayer
I have been to the ocuppied West Bank two times now. The land is being stolen, illegal settlements have continued for decades. Our government could stop them now. Why aren't we? - Mara Rivera
- Judith Norman
- Lynne Kavin
- Martha Wallner
- Annette Herskovits
- Jessica C. Kimmel, Ph.D.
It is past time to stop this continued destruction of Palestinian homes. I have witnessed this process and it is not only inhumane, but illegal under the World Court. - Susan Harman
- Aaron Ellis
As a Jew, and as an American citizen, who does take justice and democracy very seriously, I ask you, the leaders of my country, to stop neglecting the needs of the Palestinian people and the needs of the Israeli people. What do they both need? A DE-MILITARIZATION of their lands and an END TO THE OCCUPATION. Without these needs being satisfied there will be perpetual strife and violence in Israel/Palestine. Things like arbitrary home demolitions - and they are arbitrary - are the logical outcomes of an occupying force which knows no restraint, and knows no pressure from its greatest enemy and enabler, the checkbook of the United States government. - Private Name
- Private Name
- Dave Reed
- Bruce Ballin
- Richard A Shook, DVM
- Jeanne Whitesell
I can't imagine anything so devastating as going about my daily life (eating breakfast or cleaning house, etc.) and having someone come with bulldozers and tear it down in front of me. What a crime against humanity. - silvia tennenbaum
enough is enough! when will this illegal and inhuman policy end? - Mehrene Larudee
- Marge Sussman
- Shimon Gottschalk
Please be aware of the fat that AIPAC does not reresent the Jewish majority in America - Private Name
- Mason Wilson
- Sally Howland
End all aid to Israel they use our money to destroy Palestinians lives, homes, health,livlihood. STOP ALL AID TO ISRAEL NOW, UPHOLD THE GOLDSTONE REPORT IN THE UN - Cindy Shamban
- judith kahn munger
- Alice Diane Kisch
Please, for once, let the United States of America be on the right side of history ... - Annette Jacobson
As president you promised "change." Why do you continue to ignore the inhumanity of Israeli policy against the Palestinians -- as the Bush administration did? - Bonnie L. Block
Until Israel ends its unjust treatment of Palestinians there can be no hope for peace. - Tova Perlmutter
- Sherry Ann Chapman
- Judith Loebl
- Burton Steck
- Kriss Avery
- Bruce Taub
- Maria Alexandrino
When I think on how the Palestinian people live under occupation, I think of camps, if not death camps, certainly concentration camps. - Lori Rudolph
- Private Name
Three people I know personally, all Palestinian Christians, have lost their homes. One family was given 15 minutes to collect their belongings, was told to leave the area and never return. Another family was forced to watch as their home was destroyed and the third family was sent out of town and returned to find their house and all of their possessions gone. - Denise Rickles
- David L. Mandel
- Elyse Crystall
- Private Name
- Glen Hauer
One of your Jewish constituents. - Bruce Gould
- Leslie Lomas
- Sharon de-Wit
- Jennifer Bing-Canar
- Jacob Nammar
- Judith Berlowitz
As an American Jew and someone who voted for you with the hopes that you would see the injustice of the illegal occupation and cruel home demolitions, I urge you to put economic teeth into your polite requests. - Miryam Rashid
- Esther Riley
We need action, not just words. How about suspending U.S. aid to Israel until this practice stops? - Susan Severin
- Valerie Stoll Schwimmer
I saw the Rachel Corrie documentary and heard her mother speak. I am signing this petition in memory of her and all the Palestinian people who live in fear and insecurity every day because of Israel's inhumanity and cruelty. - Mary Louise Gotthold
- Joseph Levine
- Nancy Hanson
- Arlene Renshaw
The expansion of settlements in the West Bank and all other aspects of the illegal occupation must end. It is time for the Israeli government to be held responsible for its violation of international law and human rights. - Ann Harbeson
An outrage that needs to be fixed. Israel receives huge amounts of foreign aid from the U.S. that could be used for leverage. The other thing that HAS to stop is the equating of criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism. It is not. We criticize our own government's policies, and that doesn't make us unpatriotic here either. - Paola Canarutto
- Barbara Bogard
A Jewish voice against occupation and home demolition. - Benno Barg
- Robin VanTassell
- Yotam Amit
Home demolitions contribute to no one's security - Morris Davis
Since there has been no movement by Israel to remove the horrendous practise of destroying Palestinian homes, the U.S. should produce a threat to remove monetary support, and carry out that threat if Israel does not comply. - Private Name
- Gabriela Segade
- Jacqueline Muller
- Kenneth Ring
- Jan Bauman
Israel's settlements, ALL of them illegal under international law, make peace and a two-state solution impossible. It is time to tell Israel that if settlement building doesn't stop the money flowing into Israel from U.S. tax payers will stop. - Kit Everts
- Rev. Linda Theophilus
- Rev. Dennis Orsen
- Caroline Herzenberg
- Katherine Bayoud
This has continued far too long. Home demolition and settlement building must be stopped immediately. - June Krisch
- Roger Harris
- Jim and Peggy Rafferty
Home demolitions fuel resentment in the whole world, not only the Muslim world. USA would do best to stand up for International humanitarian law, the 4th Geneva Convention and end the belligerent occupation..one home at a time is not fast enough. Our futures are intertwined and must be build on human rights for all. - Edith Cacciatore
- Private Name
- Roger Stoll
- Cynthia Whitman-Bradley
- Greg Thomas
Unconscionable, unforgivable treatment of Palestinians. - Brian T. Manning
When are you going to DO Something and wake up to the wicked nature of Zionism that has created a situation where a two state solution is no longer possible. Clearly America has lost it's perspective and continues to reward Israeli terrorism. - Daniel Mahoney
Stop the bulldozer terrorism that our tax dollars are paying for. Boycott Caterpillar. - David Lazik
Surely you can use the ,000,000,000 in aid the US gives to Israel annually for levereage in achieving the administrations stated goals in the region. - Robert Tripp
- Merle Bachman
- David klafter
- Daniel Szyld
- Jean Tepperman
- Private Name
- Mike Coogan
- Joshua Glasser
- Annamay Waldman
The United States would not allow in the United States actions committed by Israel but we appear to condone these acts committed by Israel and continue to fund them and assure them of our unqualified support. We will not admit that "The Emperor has no clothes"... For Shame!! - Marsha Steinberg
president Obama,
Please speak truth in injustice!Why must Israel, alone among nations, continue to receive a pass when it comes to racism, apartheid and occupation? - Brandon West
- Dave Lippman
- Marjorie Suisman
I just returned from a trip to occupied Palestine and I witnessed this with my own eyes. I am an American Jew and I deeply resent that my tax dollars are financing these illegal and repressive activities. I think we should cut off all aid to Israel until the illegal settlements are dismantled and the wall is demolished. - Adrienne Gawlowski
- Private Name
- shirley Capshaw
- stefany gordon
- Christian Haesemeyer
- Ellen Shatter
- Susan Schacher
- Tony Macias
- Nina Triffleman
- Leslie Simoon
- John H. Erickson
- Jethro Eisenstein
- Paul Quintanilla
- nicholas suntzeff
There is much injustice, violence, and hatred on all sides. But the Palestinians are being slowly forced out of their land against their will since the 67 war creating a great human tragedy. - Barbara Glassman
- Margaret Holdsworth
There can be no "Middle East" solution until this and other outstanding issues are resolved. - Bernard L. Koenigsberg
Please listen to your earliest supporters, of whom I was one, and take these necessary steps to secure peace in the region. - Clifford Rosenthal
- Kermit Yoder
- Mr and Mrs Irwin Luckman
- Clarissa Mansfield
- Carolyn Eisenberg
- Michael Reshetnik
We cannot ignore or condone this oppression. - Dayne Goodwin
Secretary, Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice,
Salt Lake City, Utah - ian
- carole Wilbourn
Stop the demolition of Palestinian homes. - Christopher Lish
- Cy L Swartz
There is no possibility of peace negotiations without stopping Israel in this ongoing campaign to punish Palestinians. No more US aid to Israel as long as this is going on. - Trude Bennett
- evelyn Haas
- sue rouda
- Libby Frank
- frank mcginty
Bulldozers won't bring peace. - The Rev. Judith Beck
Israel's policies toward Palestine destroy both Israelis and Palestinians.It is a travesty that our govenment (my tax dollors)funds these draconian programs. We need to cut the military budget to Israel. - Claudia Chaufan
- Private Name
- Mark Haas
- Chase Foster
- Bart Beavin
If you do not wish to be complicit in ethnic cleansing, I suggest you not only call for the immediate cessation of demolition of Palestinian homes but hold Israel accountable by withholding funds if she does not comply!! - Marilyn Sutton Loos
- Private Name
Enough destruction of innocent lives!!!!!!! - The Rev. Jeff Douglas
- PAUL McNAMARA
Criminal, heartbreaking,we have sanctioned other countries for far less than this. - Toni F Borge
- Linda Holtzman
- Bella august
It is long past time to stop coddling Israel--use our financial leverage on this issue - Private Name
All people have the right to build and live on their own land. The destruction of Palestinian homes denies these people their rights to live peacefully. How can the Israelis be so mean and how can we stand by and allow this to happen? - paul siemering
you need to stop all abuse of Palestinians now. - Betty Likis
- Peter Miller
Demolishing homes is a serious crime and an insult to Palestinian human rights and dignity and deeply counter to a future peace. I don't want to be complicate in these crimes. The US government has the power to stop this cruel behavior. - Judy Amarah
- Albert Johns
- Elmer Occhiuzzo
- Diane Adkin
- Susan Davenport
- Uday Jhunjhunwala
- Soraya Saley
- Laurie Knightly
How low can you sink? - E. Faye Williams, Esq.
It's time to stop traveling around the world pushing others to be fair and just if we are not willing to be consistent. Israeli and Palestinian children deserve a better life than they now have--free from war and violence. Our country can make this happen. Time is of the essence. - Maura Yasin
If the Zionists did what they do to Palestinians to Americans, we wouldn't and shouldn't take it for a second. End all U.S. aid to Israel now to stop the American-sponsored genocide of Palestinians. - Gene Kanaan
- Rosemary Hershberger
- amina roessiger
Mr. President,
I voted for you mainly because I thought you were the only person truly commited to a just peace for the Palestinians and that you would stand up to Israel. Please, do not disappoint me and millions in the Arab world.
Respectfully,
Amina Roessiger - gordon reed
- Private Name
- Rand Carter
End ALL U.S. aid to Israel until the Zionist state obeys internation law, ceases its ethnic cleansing of Christians and Muslims, stops using white phosphorus on civilians, and gives up all its illegal colonies on occupied territory, including Jerusalem! - tony Rukab
- Peter Chabarek
- Norrie Thompson
My country's support for Israel's theft of Palestinian land, future, and dignity is a humanitarian disgrace. - noel Yaziji
President Obama, There is a human crisis going on in the west bank and ghaza. If you do not deliver on your promise, it will indeed be very regrettable. - William R. Seaman
- Gail Boehme
Stand firm on your statements. I believe the only way to get Israel's attention is to mean what we say and show it by cutting off aide to them. - Louise Halverson
Time is of the essence. Palestinians and their supporters have been fighting for many years to keep their houses and homeland. Please make any funds sent to State of Israel dependent on the complete cessation of demolition of Palestinian homes and olive trees. - margaret killip
- dora haslett
this arrogant, illegal policy has continued far too long. - Edward Briody
These home demolitions incite people to demolish buildings in the USA and kill our troops. - Leroy Fassett
- Henry Clifford
- Caroline Cracraft
To ensure the longterm security of Israel it is essential to reach a comprehensive two-state solution. No more settlements or no more US money. - John J. DeKort
- Loren Boline
- Private Name
- Peter D. Durant
End the genocide in Palestine! - Wael Elasady
Change is more than a catch phrase Mr. Obama. Action is needed to end the American role in this inhumane and illegal situation. Stop all US financial and military aid to Israel until it abides by International Law - Rev. Gretchen Winkler
- Naila JIrmanus
- gloria massa
- Angela Godfrey-Goldstein
- Barbara Martens
There can be no hope of a just peace in Palestine/Israel while innocent people are forced out of their homes in E Jerusalem and the West Bank. We must not remain silent. - Mary Anderson
- Sam Salti
Palestinians have the right to live! They are humans!!! STOP THE ISRAELI WAR CRIME MACHINE. - Sean Martens
- Meriwether Falk
- Debbie Johnson
- rudolph meyer
It is time to requier Israel to abide by international law - K
It is time that we allow the Palestinians to determine their future and not Israel. Stop interferring with their desire to become a state by continuing to destroy theirs lives, livlihoods and infrastructure. - freddie johnson
- John Nissen
- Ida Nissen
- Michael L. Balmer
A small group comprising 2% of the US population and 3% of the world population seems to be determining our foreign policy and running our US government. America is no longer acting in our own best interests. Mr. President, if you want to establish peace in the ME, simply deny Israel foreign aid and military hardware. They have never been good allies and have nothing to offer. They could be the cause of WWIII and the disruption of the world's oil supply. Please stop signing the checks. - Charlotte Prozan
- Gretchen H. Beall
The destruction of Palestinian homes is easily the worst thing that can be done. It shows the continuing inhumane treatment of another people. It absolutely destroys any sympathy we have for the Jewish people -- they were persecuted in another time, and they have become the persecutors of this time. How they can continue is beyond my understanding. - Taylor Markey
- June Forsyth Kenagy
Israel will NEVER stop taking Palestinian land because they think God gave it ALL to them. To stop demolition of Palestinian farms and homes, please recognize Palestine as a sovereign state on the pre-1967 borders! It is the ONLY way! - Marilyn Thompson
- Christine W. Abbyad
- Edward R. Brandt, Ph.D.
An Eisenhower Republican for two-thirds of my adult, later a Perot and then a Nader supporter. - Robert H. Stiver
This international outlaw Zionist Israel, operating as a criminal psychotic, must be brought to account re home demolitions, water theft, mass incarcerations, and on and on throughout the entire spectrum of this illegal colonial occupation...enabled by my tax payments. Enough already! - Mary Rizzo
Please immediately call for a stop to all demolitions of Palestinian houses and a complete dismantlement of all Jewish/Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories - Samira Turk
- Louis Angelos
- Koryn Lloyd
- Penny
If there is ever to be peace in the ME, the international community has to ensure it. End the house demolitions, remove the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. - Ronald Zera
- Joe Salazar
These crimes must end now. - Warren Keller
- Marion I. Lipshutz
- Gilbert Lawall
- Ed Eadeh
- AWAD PAUL SIFRI
House DESTRUCTION is what Israel is conducting. Our government should not only cut off our tax money, but also prosecute any American with dual Israeli nationality to live in or rent in any of the colonies built on destroyed Palestinian lands in Jerusalem, West Bank & Gaza. Home destruction and land expropriation and annexation are extreme forms of "state-terrorism". - Lucas Koerner
As an American Jew, Israel does not speak for me. - Private Name
Stop and place yourself in their shoes. Think of their children. Think of their memories being destroyed and a lifetime of fear that that takes place in one swift movement of bulldozers. YOU have the power to stop this. You can't spend your life calling yourself and activist and then letting this happen - something you so clearly can have an impact upon. Please do what is right! - James Harlin
Justice for Palestine... you know...what you espoused during the election. - Christopher Ho
- Private Name
On my trip to Palestine, I saw the suffering that the Occupation and demolitions cause. Please demand that Israel end demolitions, grant housing permits, and stop all settlement expansion! - Francisco
- Ann Mallouk
- Barbara Nash
- Ahmed Sakkal
- Robert Fiske
- Manal Fakhoury
Please be fair and wise and take action to stop this long over-due and paramount injustice. - LAURIE FOX
- Tracy S. Feldman
- Lorna Henkel
- LoErna Simpson
House demolitions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem MUST be stopped! - Private Name
How many Americans would tolerate their land being stolen and their property destroyed by their next-door neighbor? - MIRIAM Thompson
And I want an immediate cessation of U.S. tax exempt status to those organizations whose funding support settlement expansion and Palestinian house demolitions. - Barbara Smith
- melinda Beard
Oh Israel-stop disappointing us! - Ann Cohen
- barbara Engel
- Private Name
- Henry Marta
The only message that will change Israel's criminal behavior is to stop 100% of US political and monetary assistance. That is not likely to happen. - Susan Sheinfeld
- Linda Cohen
- Dorsett Bennett, J.D.
The Palestinians are people that deserve respect also. If Israel does not stop its oppression, they will lose the support of the American people. It is already starting to happen. - Mike Gullion
- Jeff Warner
- Mel Packer
The failure of your administration to stop this inhumane policy will go down in history as your tacit approval of ethnic cleansing. - Tim Hopkins
One Secular Revolutionary State! U.S. Out! - Yogesh Grover
Demolition of houses of innocent people is an act of state terrorism. - Nancy Kricorian
- Ford Chambliss
- Margaret McIntyre
True friends speak up when their friends do something wrong. - Devereaux Kennedy
- Catharine White
- Don Maclay
- Georgia Guida
Peace and justice now - Raina Hassan
- Private Name
- Marie France
- Sami W. Abed
Stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Only justice, equity, and balance will allow for peace. - Michelle Cohen
- Laurel Sprague
- Rudy Ramp
- Helen Engelhardt
If not now, when? - Ramkumar Sridharan
- Alan Meyers
I implore you to take the steps necessary to pressure Israel to cease its barbarous behavior, namely by withdrawing U.S. support unless it abandons its colonization project. - Saul Noam Zaritt
- Lorie (Loreta) Wood
The time is now! There can be no further delays. - Sharif Zakout
Its important to open our eyes to these injustices, over 60 years, its been far too long - Joy Martin
- Marian Royer
- Rebecca Subar
- safwat Malek
- Private Name
- Jeffry Finer
As an attorney in the United States who litigates discriminatory housing practices, as a father of a child living in Israel, as a Jew and a person of conscience, I urge you to make it a priority to bring Israel back from its moral brink and END its DEMOLITION policies. - Elizabeth M. Downie
When a child watches her home being smashed to pieces before her eye, it leaves a scar which will never go away. The human cost of these demolitions is incalculable. They must STOP. - patricia hewett
This practice is reprehensible and just must stop. - Private Name
Home demolition is ethnic cleansing and crime against humanity. Silence is complicity. - Rick Childs
Time to let Israel the Holocaust no longer gives them a free pass on human rights violations!! - Phoebe Sheftel
- Carol Marsh
- Audrey Bomse, Esq.
As a Jew and a civil rights attorney, I am 100% behind this campaign. - Marcia Heath
- Barbara Aswad
Withhold some of our taxpayers money that is helping to do this. - Ross and Gwin Jones
- Steven Botticelli
- Ajay Skaria
- Private Name
I have just returned from a Pedal for Peace in the Middle East and have spent time in Palestine. Please do everything you can to put an end to demolition of Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem. The Occupation must end. The settlement building must end. The Palestinians are living in one giant open air prison! - Stanwood Nutter
- Dan Kelly
- Harriet Malinowitz
- PETER VIERING
- Elsa Marston Harik
Demolition of Palestinians' homes, on whatever pretense, is but one of the innumerable injustices inflicted on this captive people--but undeniably one of the most cruel. The United States must NOT continue to support it--as we do in so many ways. - Ronald Shiffman
- Kathy Roberts
Stop aid to Israel until they comply with ending house demolitions and stopping all settlement building on Palestinian land including expansions in existing settlements. - Nancy Wrenn
I have seen the destruction of a Palestinian home and know the lack of fair warning which accompanied it. Fear, actually terrorism, is a merciless tactic by the Israeli government. - Private Name
- john weber
House demolitions in Occupied Territory are Illegal, shocking, and outrageous. Stop condoning them. Stop supporting them. - Michael Liebert
- Les Canges
If you can't hear the world begging you to stop, at least listen to your still small voice. - Amy Pett
I am one of many American Jews who are opposed to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. - Tamara Esther Cohen
I have visited a house that was demolished on the same day that it happened and it was the most traumatizing experience of my life, and I was simply an observer. We cannot let Israel continue this inhuman practice. As an American Jew and as soon-to-be Israeli citizen and want to call on both of my governments to come together and promote the proper policy for human rights. We cannot let Israel continue dehumanizing these innocent Palestinian families. - Private Name
Demolition is an inhumane act. What if the reverse were taking place? - Elaine G. Schwartz, Ph.D.
- Nadia Sindi
STOP your Natural Growth Right Now! You are doing nothing for Peace. Stop your slavery. - Jordan Kushner
- Cheryl Sharps
- Evan Weissman
- Dennis Nichols
It would be, at least, unconscionable to stand by and do nothing about the Israeli treatment of Palestinians. But we (the US) go far beyond that with our blind support of Israel. Stop it! Please. - Virginia Baron
- Sylvia Schwarz
- Private Name
Having led student study groups to Israel and the occupied territories on numberous occasions, I am particularly distressed by Israel's flaunting of international law and UN resolutions. Destruction of non-Jews' homes in order to use their land for purposes intended for "Jews only" is especially egregious. - Joyce Guinn
- Marian Feinberg
- Naomi Harrison
- Joanne Heisel
- Donna Hicks
- Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence
Dear President Obama, Please pursue a peace policy that actively pursues Palestinian Human Rights. Thank you. Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb - Ellen Robinson
- Jenny Hochstetler
- luke charles
- Alan Arnold
If you cannot overcome a US Congress purchased by Likud, you must still condemn, for the world to see. - Jeffrey (Rusty) Curling
Settlement expansion has always come at the expense of Palestinian families. end home demolitions and evacuate settlements now. - Ehnaeull E. G. Gonçalves
if they didn't stop, we have to stop them! - Francis Nicosia
- Stefanie Brendler
- rukhsana ghouse
- Carolyn Corzine
Doesn't it matter that these demolitions are happening in E. Jerusalem now!!! - Private Name
If we do not weigh in on the side of human decency, we are colluding with the forces of cruelty and injustice... NO MORE demolitions! - William P. Aldrich
- Andrea Whitmore
- doris rausch
What right has Israel to issue, or deny, building permits in the West Bank, E. Jerusalem, and Gaza??!! - James L. Bailey
I too have witnessed the demolished houses in the
West Bank. House Demolitions must be stopped. - Susan Landau
- Eric Salitsky
- Kevin Gerard Rashid
- Tawna B Farmer
As an American gentile with a strong sense of right and wrong, I am so grateful that ICAHD is doing this.
Their voices are more likely to be heard than mine.
THANK YOU - Caren Levy-Van Slyke
- Erwin K Kerr
- Private Name
- David Nir
This state of cruelty must be stopped. Unstopped, the abuser intensifies his assault on humanness and justice. - Ray Gordon
End Israeli house demolitions and evictions of Palestinians so Jewish settlers can move in. - lynn segak
- Janice Hart
- Ryan Nelson
- Marilyn Brunger
It's time we stop supporting this inhumanity with our tax dollars that go to Israel. - V. Rev. Timothy J. Ferguson
I’ve seen the dehumanizing effect gratuitous violence has on society in several parts of the world but the most searing image of the violation of human dignity I’ve ever witnessed was the eviction of an innocent family from their ancestral home, the ransacking of their belongings and the demolition of their house by a D-9 Cat. The pleadings, the cries, the tears, the rumble of the engine, the stench of the diesel, the lunging of the monster, the smashing of stone, the rising musty dust, and the desperate faces of the dispossessed remain branded in my memory.
The whole thing took only a few minutes. The violence is compounded by the realization that it is executed with such precision and sophisticated calculation by young soldiers from a supposedly civilized society. How easy it is to dismiss compassion and conscience.
Have our government officials and representatives not seen this? Where is their effective protest? SCREEM! - Heike Schotten
- Helen Holtz
- Judith E. Bailey
I have seen the results of family homes demolished after being built on the family lands owned for years after Israelis refused to grant building permits. - Bernadette Garcia
we must stand for justice for the Palestinian people - Rev. Craig H. Scott
I care a great deal about the longterm security of Israel as well as humane treatment for Palestinians. I also appreciate your efforts to try to be accomodating and compromising with the Israeli leadership, but it seems clear at this point that the leadership will stop its settlement activities and it's attempts to control all of East Jerusalem unless the US gets much tougher. Aid, arms, loan guarantees etc. to Israel should be put in jeopardy if Israel refuses to comply some of these reasonable demands - Gerri Haynes
- Wayne Pressler
- Steve Schewel
Please help stop the home demolitions taking place in order for Israel to expand its settlements. This is a grave and terrible injustice. - Private Name
- Matthew Thomas Miller
- David Matos
Staopping settlements AND home demolitions is a nececessary prerequisite for peace negotiations. If Israel continues, we should freeze US taxpayer supplied aid. - Private Name
- Amer Elmughrabi
Please End it - nashwan hamza
- Robert Brookover
The Middle East will continue to be in turmoil until this issue is settled. - Dr. William Dienst
Stop the hypocracy! - Anthony Ernst
- Private Name
- Noel Sanborm
- Janet Tice
No one should have the right or ability to destroy another person's home. It's illegal, immoral and pure intimidation. - Liz Aaronsohn
- Michelle Granas
- Ellen Oxfeld
- Private Name
- Patricia Bango
- Alice Rothchild
- James Gormley
The US Congress needs to end its dereliction and practice due diligence by holding hearings on the Goldstone Reort as well as Israel's disgraceful house demolitions and evictions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and other illegally occupied territories.
It's long past time for Congress to investigate Israel's misuse of US military and other assistance as required by the Arms Export Control Act (22 USC 2771-2781) and regulate or end US aid to Israel according to the Foreign Assistance Act (22 USC 2151 et seq).
Additionally, AIPAC, SOS Israel and other Israel lobby, advocacy and financial support groups should be investigated for compliance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (22 USC 611 et seq) and IRS regulations. - Private Name
- Sulaiman Shaltoni
- Kate Gilles
- Elizabeth Burr
- Michael Levy
I've seen the demolitions, seen the families they torture, the communities they destroy. It is wicked. Please do what you can to make it stop. - Richard Blum
- John Lynn
- Rita Erickson
How can we not demand that they stop building Israeli homes on Palestinian land while Israelis continue to demolition Palestinian homes??????? - ann richardson
If this kind of thing were happening to Americans instead of Palestinians, we would be screaming in outrage. Well, I am outraged at Israel's blatant subsuming of Palestinian homes and land. It's appalling and MUST stop. No vote for those with blind eyes and abject submission to AIPAC. - David Meshoulam
Enough is enough! - Joel Semakula
- Matt Stern
- Sam Koprak
- Jean Entine
- David Corcoran
Stop the Occupation and genocide of the Palestinian People - Ruth S. Hertzberg
Why does the US continue to support this brutal regime (Israeli Government)? - Rose Jones
- Joyce Zonana
There is no justification for this destruction. - Patrick O\'Lear
- Sherry Gorelick
- Guida Leicester
No one should have to tolerate this horrible illegal kind of collective punishment--NOONE!! Wake up Mr. President, Secretary Clinton, and Special Envoy Mitchell! Put yourself in the shoes of these people--it's a human rights issue!! The Israel Government continues to commit these crimes--these are intolerable crimes against humanity! We would never tolerate this behavior here in USA and we should not tolerate it anywere else in the world!! Reflect on your conscience. Silence is complicity!! - Kyle P. Erickson
Allowing Israel to occupy Palestinian land only strengthens terrorist recruting power. - Judith Deutsch
- Private Name
- Dr James Deutsch
Israel can no longer hide behind a wall of rhetoric. - Kristin Vournas
- MARIE FORDE
- Nance Shatzkin
Honor those who died in the Warsaw Ghetto. Stand for humanity. End the home demolitions. - Sarah Eggleston
- Kamal Hassan
Don't do it Israel. Some of those Palestinian houses were built before the creation of the Zionist/Israeli state on the stolen land of Palestine.Israel should start demolition of all the illegal colonies occupied by the most hateful and violent Jews on the face of this earth. - Yolanda Aleman
- Alvin Eshe
Do the correct thing! - Daniel Pines
As a Jewish person I am hopeful that Israel will end its immoral and shameful policy of demolishing the homes of innocent Palestinians - Ruth/Pat Harris/Patterson
- Roni Hammermann
- Marilyn Lucier
- Adam Levine
- elisabeth geschiere
- Kathryn levy
- Brent Richards
- Private Name
Give the innocent a chance in life - Nancy Lee Farrell
The US must take a stronger stand against continuing home demolitions in Palestine, especially since so much of US money is used for this purpose. - Jim Peters
- arlene coulter
inhumanity to man is never acceptable - Private Name
Have you ever experienced being put out of your home and seeing it destroyed before your eyes...
with no other place to go? I have witnessed it happen! This kind of injustice cries out to God! - Carla and Bob VanDale
It is a shame for a nation born out of a legitimate concern that there never again be a holocaust to have itself become a practicioner of holocaustic measures! - Bo Fauth
- Courtney Childs
- DAVID SCHLEICHER
- Laura Stern MD
As a humanist and a Jew I can not support this destruction of peoples homes and lives. - SHU-MEI HUANG
Israel should stop the occupation! - Keith Houser
- Marguerite Coyle
Brutally usurping another's home is unconscionable. - Phyllis M Andrews
- Ruth Crystal
- Melinda Thompson
Our failure to take a stance and make it happen is unforgivable! You have the power - use it! - Rev. Bob Stoddard
I thank God for Jeff Halper and the courageous work he and his colleages are doing to try and prevent the destruction of Palestinian homes and the illegal taking of Palestian property. May more Israelis come to realize that in promoting justice for the Palestinians, Jeff is acting in their best interests as well. - Larry La Caille
Human Rights for Palestinians. They are people, too. - William Lynch
- Don Kuespert
- Veda Stram
END occupations! Americans are viewed as callous and ignorant by continuing to support brutal illegal occupations...anywhere. - Jo Ann Oliver
I am increasingly distressed by the house demolitions carried out by Israel. It is illegal and clearly immoral and inhumane.
Sincerely,
Jo Ann Oliver - Beverly Stuart
President Obama, we are counting on you to take a tough stand in the name of peace and justice. Like many who signed this petition before me, I am an American and a Jew and I am appalled at the actions Israel is being allowed to get away with. Apartheid did not work in South Africa and it will not work in Israel, either. - Victor Teich
Back to the 1967 border NOW! - Sam Bernstein
- Matthew Alan Taylor
Fund equity, not oppression. End the billions of aid to Israel and instead pay for programs of co-existence, peace, and reconciliation, and development for Palestinian homes destroyed by the IDF. - Suzanne Erfurth
- Lesly McAnelly
- Alex Heath
- Ilse Schlaepfer
- peggy wallace
- inayat taj
When are we going to wake up??????????????? - Terence M. Sullivan
Inspite of Hilary's record as Sen. Clinton, being a staunch supporter of Ariel Sharon, I have faith
the Obama team will be more sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians, maybe ; there's always
HOPE. - Dirk van Loon
President Obama, we sincerely believe you and your administration can bring about the critically necessary change that can result in peace in Israel and Palestine. An end, total end, to the building of Jewish homes and infrastructure on the West Bank side of the 1967 line is the place to start. - Private Name
- Kathy Felgran
"As you sow, so shall you reap". Sound familiar? Clearly, Israel does not want peace. - Lorrie Hall
Stop funding Israel! Our support of Israel and its cruelty to Palestinians was a cause of 9/11 and continues to recruit Muslims to AlQaeda and the Taliban. Funding Israel affects our security. - Michael A. Lopez
we can co-exist! We are all in the same boat together. - Kay Halpern
This type of activity runs counter to Jewish values and will harm Israel in the long run. - Private Name
- Lorraine Hartmann
- Linda Novenski
- Larry and Janice Faris
Stop criminal activities of Israel which demolishes Palestinian houses in Jerusalem and on other Palestinian land. Stop criminal acts against Palestinian water sources. Bring illegal Israeli settlements before the U.N. and World Court.Boycott all Israeli businesses and freeze credit and forbid financial aid until Israel vacates Palestinian land and removes to 1947 borders. End the occupation of Palestinian land in Gaza and West Bank. - Robert Cunningham
- Richard Kidd
- Katherine Hamilton
Have the courage to take a principled stand for justice for all people. Condemn house demolitions as the vile acts of ethnic cleansing that they are. To do otherwise sends a message that the government of the United States of America has no regard for justice, human rights, and the rule of law--and this makes the world a more dangerous place for us all. - Huwaida Arraf
- Carla Curio
- Anita Ross
- Paul Freibott
- Bingham Graves
- Anne Guinan
I realizs that you are overwhelmed with major problems, but this is also a heartbreaking situation, and completely against international law. - Lindsay Raspi
- laudia Leight
- Marissa Hildebrant
Peace happens when we respect our homes, the place where our heart rests. - J. Glenn & Barbara Evans
- Steve Schnapp
- Caritas Kennedy
America will be judged, not only by words and friendly openness, but also by the way her money is used. I have been there. I have seen over many years. I am saddened, outraged and ashamed of what our dollars are doing. - Sallye Steiner Bowyer
- Gabriel Alkon
- Mary Heffron
- Robert Kastner
- Peter McNair
While you should address this issue urgently, you should also call a halt to all settlement building, dismantlement of internal roadblocks, removal of the apartheid wall and lifting of the seige of Gaza. I do not want my tax dollars to fund these and other injustices. End this occupation! - Marilyn Hacker
- Amir Obeid
End the Illegal Israeli Occupation & Apartheid Government. - ewland Smith
Home demolitions is a human rights issue and must stop. A month ago I visited a Palestinian family just outside of East Jerusalem who were living in a tent provided by the Red Cross on the site of their home which had been demolished three weeks earlier. - Mary Davies
- Gene Herman
...with liberty and justice for all. Palestinians, as well as Israeli's. - Abigail Hollister
- Santa Smires
Enough is enough! - carmela ieroiannni
- gabriella bernieri
- Ruth Marchese
- Charles Schille, LICSW
- Ray Eurquhart
- Jamie Atari
How can humans want to demolish other humans' homes and livlihoods? I don't understand it at all. - Laura Peck
A cruel and barbaric policy is indefensible. - ILA ENDERS
end the occupation Stop the 3billion ISRAELI GENOCIDE FUNDING BY USA TAXPAYER DOLLARS - Thami Smires
do to others as you would have them do to you - Shefali Kaul
- Joseph Arrabito
- Laura Closson
- Private Name
destroying Palestinian homes and land is no way to peace ! - Walid Shumareye
- Maren Behrend
- anna Nilsson
Walls bring hatred and escalates violence. - Peter Beck
How many US citzens know that we condone with our tax dollars immoral and illegal behavior by Israel that would be punishable with imprisonment if committed by Americans? - Lee Baker
Settlements in Palestinian territories are illegal and prevent peace in the area. - Jamie Closson
- Michael Clyne
- Peter Ungar
- Sarah Green
- Rachael Denny
Home demolitions do a great deal of harm, and no good whatsoever. Rather than bringing about peace, it simply perpetuates an ugly cycle of vengeance, hate, and destruction. It's time chart a new, and better, course. - Private Name
- jeff kipilman
natural growth is code for settlement expansion. freeze all settlements. - JACQUELINE MILLER
- Valori George
- Private Name
- Andrew Langford
I am sick and tired of the US support of anti-Palestine movements. Mr President, you were voted for by many people who want a fair go for all. Sir, it is time you took action. If Israel does not moderate it's stand against palestinians then the US, and you as its President, must stand up for their rights and cut aid and military support to the Israeli State. You cannot continue to support the actions of Israel and at the same time support the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are contradictory.
Andrew Langford - M. L. Coombs
STOP ALL AID TO THE TERRORIST STATE OF ISRAEL, NOW!!!!!! - Daryl Bohning
- Chris Hartbarger
Mister President, I would like to know who qualifies as "your neighbor".You are my brother in Christ. You and I and all palestinians as well as all the citizens of this planet share the same last name, "child of God".It is past time for you and I to do right by our neighbors,our brothers and sisters. - Bert Aubrey
Free Palestine - MIKE REITZ
STOP ALL US AID TO THE TERRORIST STATE OF ISRAEL, NOW!!!! US's biased, blind and EGREGIOUS support of Israel is the reason for 9-11!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!! - Bernie Eisenberg
- Private Name
Please see that justice is done to the Palestinians. Abolish the settlements and stop allowing homes to be destroyed inPalestine territory!! - Sammy Rayyan
- joanne Frey
- Julie Webb
Please, please, please stop the demolition of Palestinian houses! - Joshua Hough
- Rachel C. Fletcher
- Private Name
Offering prayers for peace on earth. - Jane Stein
- Karen Kirschling
- Suhail Shafi
Stop Bulldozing Palestine. Stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians off their land ! - Private Name
- Private Name
- Tom Marsan
Having been in the home of a man whose home was demolished three times, I can safely say the Israeli Government has used unlawful and unreasonable force to victimize Palestinian families in the name of security. Mr. President please make use of our influence over the state of Israel to stop home demolitions! - eileen fleming
- Ronald Fuchs
- Sandy Anderson
Please work to eliminate this terrible injustice! - Rebecca Vilkomerson
- KJA
- Private Name
- Janet Archer
When my husband and I attended a two day Sabeel Conference here in KC we learned about the plight of Palestinian Christians and Palestinian Arabs in the occupied territories from those who have lived there and continue to bring God among us, as Jesus did, dwelling with the poor, the widow, the alien. Justice and peace are intertwined and our US Congress seems not to get this. Keep up the educational campaign. We, in the US do not get the full story most of the time, and that's what those who control the power and occupy by military might want (Rome all over again like in Jesus time). Never give up on hope, justice, kindness, peace, nonviolence, and love. - Private Name
- Nancy M. Pratt
- Emily McNeill
- Clif Brown
The advance of settlements into the occupied territories has been winked at long enough by the United States. Even now, the Obama administration takes no action beyond words. It is long past time that the United States distance itself from the deliberate taking of Palestinian land. - Prof Uri Davis
End Demolitions Now in both pre-1967 ethnically cleansed apartheid Israel and post-1967 occupied territories! Boycott Israeli industrial, academic, cultural and scientific institutions. Divest in Israel and demand the imposing of UN sanctions against the rogue Government of apartheid State of Israel! - Stanley Bercovitz
- John Gaston
Religion without justice is hollow. - Himani Bannerji
- Amal
- Vivian L. Wood
- Sarah Crawford-Browne
- kevin moloney
- Rev. Debbie Blane
A privileged relationship with the United States should not allow another country, in this case Israel, to ignore international law and human rights abuses any more than any other country would be allowed to do so. - Mark H Gaffney
- Karen Klein
- Lawrence Rich
I believe that a prosperous Palestinian population is in the interests of peace. House demolitions, land grabs and destruction of olive trees, grape vines etc. leads to impoverishment and bitterness. - Sherrill Hogen
I have been there and seen families on the street with their ruined furniture because of settler pressure to evict and destroy in order for them to grab and build for Jews only. Surely this injustice violates U.S. values and must be stopped. Continued U.S. economic and military aid to Israel can be contingent on ending demolitions and land grabs. - Sama Alshaibi
- karen redleaf
- Rebecca Hopskotch
please stop demolishing Palestinian homes! - Roula Seikaly
- Caitlin Robertson
- Donn Trautman
- Bea Kirby
I wholeheatedly endorse this petition! - Barbara Hanst
It's way past time for the US to put pressure on Israel to stop these demolitions! - Dorothy and Robert Osborn
This is such an important issue; please read this message caarefully. - Muhammad Ismail
- Bernadine Mellis
- Henry Landau
A just peace will never occur while Israel continues to provoke. - A. Loikow
Home demolitions are a tactic Israel uses against non Jews, even when they are Israeli citizens, such as the Bedouin who live in the "unrecognized villages" in the Negev. The United States should not support any nation, financially or otherwise, that so routinely denies and violates the human rights of others as a matter of state policy. - Mary J. Wilson
President Obama, we elected you to use the power of the U.S. for the benefit of its citizens and of the world. It is time to cease our financial support of Israeli injustice. - Elizabeth Loikow
- Rob Wall
- Randy Kehler
- Dorothy Gerner
What Israel has done/is doing violates it's own values and morality. They need to go to the Hebrew scriptures and read the prophets, hearing God's judgment on them and calling them to repentance. - Clarence Hoop
This is a difficult issue that will only end badly if it continues. Right now it is lose-lose. - jan smith
spare the rod,spoil the child - now we know how true it is. - Sid Frankel
Mr. Obama should not be picking up his Peace Prize. - Gilah Morse
- Stan Current
- Pieter Niemeyer
- Private Name
- Dr. Tony Wolfe
Ignoring Israel's injustices only creates more seeds of the terrorism you publicly decry. Surely you see the connection. The one-sidedness with which our government deals with the Israel/Palestine issue is plain for all the world to see. Our words about justice, fairness, equality and security for all theh peoples of the region ring hollow. You can change this. Please act on the principles that have made this country a source of hope for so many. - R. Bruce King
- Edgar A. Towne
U.S. support of Israeli policies in East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank is as unconscionable as are those policies! - Carole Burnett
- Martha Nathan MD
It is an international crime to destroy people's homes. This is a shame on Israel. - Ruth Hooke
Act now! Stop demolitions! They are inhuman! - Todd Lindblom
- Hedy Epstein
- Susan Schuurman
Have the courage to stand up for what is right in Israel/Palestine. Stand up for human rights. Millions of Americans have your back. - Sid Shniad
It is time for resolute action to end Israeli impunity. - Gary Anderson
We must enter a new era: one in which a people are not regarded as expendable elements in pursuit of the current geo-political whim, but one based on the rights of the indigenous people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
What happiness is possible when you can be evicted from the home inherited from your grandparents to make room for immigrants from the former Soviet Union, or for Jewish citizens of Israel ?
We must hold all nations (incl. Israel) to the international norms of behavior, not to mention international condemnation of its illegal annexation of Jerusalem.
Sincerely,
Gary Anderon
Lakewood CO - Samuel Jordan
When there is peace, there will be one state. - Shilpa Jindia
- Signe Myklebust
- Jenny Oskarsson
- Fabienne Presentey
- Dr Adrian Fine
America and Israel have the same degree of moral blindness towards the basic human rights of Palestinians - Siddiq
End the Illegal occupations and demolitions !!! - Reg McQuaid
Do not use violence in the name of religion! - David Van Strien
- Louise Antony
Please honor your Peace Prize: use your unique position to remove this obstacle to Middle East peace. - Bill Durland
- Julie Guard
- George M Likis
- Ruth Elkin
- Richard Caslow
- Greg Starr
- Andrea Lawlor
- Azam Azaditabar
Long Live Palestine!Free, Free Palestine!
Free Palestine for Palestinians, Moslem, Jewish,& Christen like the old days.Bring the zionist settlers to the USA and spend annual billions of dollars for them here. This will bring PEACE to Middle East.
A concern human being for Peace, Human Rights, & Social Justice. From Santa Monica, CA - Erica Hahn
It is so important that Israel take this simple step, and so critical. The US must urge it. - Joanne Bitz
I was in Israel in May 2009, I saw the impact the demolition has not only for the Palestinians but the Jews as well. Israeli Jews are feeling helpless in preventing destruction to their country through house demolitions. They really want it to stop as they know they can live in peace - they have before. - Mark Kiser
True peace for all only with justice for all. - Randy Martin
- Marilyn Goodman
- Susan E. Hauser
- John Downing
- DeAnne Riddle
- Monica Stouffer
- Private Name
- Ursula Fischer-Smircich
- Cedar Dvorin
- Jette Marcher
- Michal Kucera
Continued U.S. support for Israel's ethnic cleansing, destruction of Palestinian homes, and theft of their land is morally shameful and undermines American security. - Richard Hacker
I fully support this effort to demand that Israel end its demolition of Palestinian Arab homes. Further I urge President Obama to use the powers of his office to require Israel to stop its building of settlements for Jews in the West Bank. - Frederick M. Rosen
- John Turnbull
Surely this is the clearest possible example of the Israeli government's unspoken policy to deny Palestinian land to Palestinians.
No civilized country can be silent when an ally -- and a well-funded one at that -- carries on this criminal activity. - Carolyn Walden
I have been there myself, including this year, so I have seen this travesty with my own eyes! - Peter Dupont Weiss
- Mai Hoff Skovgaard
- Jannie Fjordside
The destruction of people's homes is a horror beyond imagination. It is not right. Please, in the name of humanity and justice, make an effort to stop it. Now. - Thom Lufkin
- Susan Conway
- Private Name
facts are even if you have land you bought and have a recipt for it your still not being allowed to build on your own property - Samuel L. Liman
- Hazel Kahan
The United States must not stand by silently while Israel daily escalates its policy of house demolitions. We are all tainted by this country's silence and passivity. - Den Mark Wichar
Justice For Palestine, NOW! - Eleanor Kinnaird
- Sini Maury
- Nancy Steeves
- Una Staples
- Pat Gracian
Stop protecting the criminal government of Israel- guilty of the ultimate crime against humanity- genocide. - Mark D. Stansbery
- Ian Vaver
- Erik Stark
- Rev. Irvin Nussdorfer
The time has come to demand the actions of Israel in the destruction of homes. - Robert Piller
- John E. Coleman
- Sam Blan
- Betsy Mayfield
- Mark Venzke
Get some principle and courage. Ignore the arrogant demands of unprincipled Zionists and pressure Israel to stop all of the injustices that it is perpetrating against the people of Palestine. - Matthew Michael
- Barbara Gerten
I do not want my tax dollars funding these criminal and inhumane acts. Please stop the oppression of the Palestinians. - Peter Hudyman
- wally martin
- Nihaya Mizyed
- Margaret and Ed Tegenfeldt
- Anton Iorga
- Shereef AbdelRahman Khafagi
- Elie Elias
STOP THE ILLEGAL OCUUPATION, AND STOP THE ILLEGAL DEMOLITION OF HOMES. - Dennis Bricker
- raina whan
- Elsa J. Marty
- Antonia Mandry
- Fátima Martínez - Paraguay
- Private Name
- Judy Davis
- Rosalyn baxandall
- Asif Raza
After demolishing the poor,helpless,homes of palestinian people, these israelis (they have become a burden on America) ask for the cost incured by their evil doing...what rubbish is this..what have we created...Stop these israeli settlers and terrorists at ONCE. - Matthew William Miller
- Rosemary Agonito
- constance st jean
ISRAEL IS COMMITING GENOCIDE, TERROR AND EVIL HARASSMENT OF THE PALESTINIANS. - Emily Zisette
- margaret copi
- Stephanie Holland
- Delfina Pei
- Cornelia van Thiel
These demolitions are racist and unjust. - Diane Fentress
Please open your eyes to the injustice of the Israeli government destroying people's homes.
As an American citizen I don't want my government
aiding and abetting the Israeli government. - Ioanna Gutas
- Janie M. Stein
- Jeanie Hagedorn
- kath glatz
Stop settlements by Ending Military Aid to Israel. Our US $$$ paid for RAchel Corrie's death at hands of Israelis! End Gaza's Blockade! Move apartheid wall to 1967 green line! End Israel's illegal Occupation of Palestine! - Michele Spector
We must stop US money going to Israel to oppress the Palestinian people. They deserve a life of peace, hope and dignity which will not happen as long as Israel is allowed to get away with literally murder. - Deborah S. Van Damme
The genocide of the Palestinian people by the Jewish state must be stopped now. - Clarice J. McKenzie
- Anis B. Salib
- C.F.Williams
You wouldn't want to have this happen to you so don't allow it to happen to anyone else. - Private Name
- Private Name
- Private Name
- David and Polly Johnson
- Esther Ho
- Mark Fuller
History need not repeat itself, let us stop this inhumane treatment now. - Marcia Tyriver
- Private Name
End Israeli occupation of Palestine NOW!!!! - Jo Lucas
Now Today - Salome Gaglione Phillmann
Peace in Israel and the Occupied Territories depends on the existence of a Palestinian state. Allowing (tolerating and financing) home demolitions and settlement construction to continue is contrary to a just peace agreement. Stop Israel's policies of destruction and occuption! - jim Lucas
- Suzanne Medgyesi-Mitschang
Pope Paul II declared that "If you want peace, work towards justice." Justice and peace demand the home demolitions must end! - Lynn Travis
- Glenna Kay Plitt
- Caroline Best
- barbara crandall
there's no holy in the holyland! - Private Name
- john case
- Alan Zaslavsky
- Private Name
We have to call it what it is... Apartheid. The arrogance and the cruelty of the Israelis is astounding. - Private Name
- Mahi
Be free - Colin Smith
- Bruce Edwards, Canada
Please don't betray people who believe in you. - Amy Harlib
Barbaric arrogance and intolerance must end and respect for human rights must begin. - paul almond
- Vladymir Gómez
Please, end it now. - Mark M Giese
- Eulalia Villuendas Huguet
- Susan T. Nicholson
- J Lander
I am appalled at Israel's actions. How can this be classed as searching for a peaceful settlement? - Ann Klein
- Jelica Roland
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- Laurie DesJardins Ferhani
- Juan Camacho
- Maggi Carter
Stop the hypocrisy. Israel is a rogue state and cannot function without US money. I have seen what we pay for in Gaza and it is shameful. Stop participating in Israel's inhumanity. - Susan Oehler
- Deborah Potter
- Iman Potter
Dear President Obama,
We are tarnishing our souls daily by allowing our tax dollars (over 3 billion annually) to be used for home demolitions, illegal settlement building, internal roadblocks and checkpoints, the evil apartheid wall and the siege of Gaza. While the world watched in horror, you never harshly condemned the bombing of over 1,400 innocent victims of the Israeli assault on Gaza, (many of whom are still suffering the effects of illegal white phosphorus), and countless other brutal crimes against humanity. You had the audacity to justify Israel’s “right to defend itself”! Your silence was complicity!
With all due respect, WHERE IS THE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN???
President Obama, I voted for you because you talked the talk, but you are NOT walking the walk! This is called HYPOCRISY! It's time for you to put some economic teeth into those diplomatic requests of yours to the Israelis. The only language they understand is $$$$. Cut off the financial umbilical cord until they comply with international law. Honor your Nobel Peace Prize by standing for justice!
The US Congress needs to end its dereliction by holding hearings on the Goldstone Report as well as Israel's inhumane home demolitions and evictions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and other illegally occupied territories. If our representatives continue to put the interests of Israel before the interests of the American people, they must be voted out of office.
It's long overdue for Congress to investigate Israel's misuse of US military and other assistance as required by the Arms Export Control Act (22 USC 2771-2781) and end US aid to Israel according to the Foreign Assistance Act (22 USC 2151 et seq) until they are in full compliance.
“Fear the cry of the oppressed, for there is no barrier between them and their Lord.”
(Prophet Mohammed) - Chris Ringwalt
Let us not be complicit by remaining silent in this continuing affront to peace and justice. - Patricia Walsh
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
--Martin Luther King - Patrick Gesnot
Housedemolition is a violation of human rights. Boycott products from Israel. Europe should stop diplomatic relations with Israel. - Private Name
- Alan Wood
- Private Name
- Sharon Lo
- PFEIL Hélène
- Merlin Seller
- Howard Rubinstein
- Rowena Harry
- Donna Schumann
- Mary Lou Leiser Smith
- Man Abu Taleb
- Donna Barten
- Jim Munroe
- Lee Cheek
- Michael Barten
- Kathleen Piraino
- Paul and Joan Waller
- Helena
- carol sanders
There's a yiddish expression my grandma taught me: "It's a Shonda". It means shame and the disgrace that falls upon those who support an injustice like this that stinks to high heaven. Stop sending billions of our tax dollars to facilitate Occupation and ethnic cleansing. Condition US support on democratization, not colonization. - Richard Tait
Israeli intransigence will not change without forceful pressure from the United States.It must change if there is to be durable peace. - Hermann Kurthen
- Joel Stillerman
- Daniel Sheets
- Private Name
I prefer my name to be included in the LA Jews for Peace membership rather than individually, not both - steve
- Trude Steiro
- Bobi
- Shireen
It's time you end the house demolitions! Freeze the settlements. Give justice to the Palestinians!!! - Garry Schmidt
We spend billions of dollars in reaction to the conflict in the Middle East that we support through our governments giving million daily with "no strings attached". When will this insanity end? - LAJ Jews for Peace
- Ineke Way
- Private Name
thank you for this important work! - Judith Brown
Every house demolished means at last one mother and family are forced to live in despairs. - Dolores Jackson
This genocide must stop. The blood of these innocent people is on your heads USA, Israel, UK and you client warmongering states - Private Name
End the second Holocaust now! - Private Name
- gina awadallah
stop the palestinian holocaust!!!!!!! - gary howard
- betty mazur
- Philip Randall
When I was in Israel I watched as a Palestinian house was destroyed in an hour and an half. The family returned home from a wedding and they were devastated. - Frieda Behets
- Vernon Whitney
- cherie Gorman
- Edward Borchardt
- marjorie ford
- Michele Mattingly
- Barbara Walton
The demolitions have to stop. It's unconscionable they have been allowed to go on for so long. - Joan Huguenard
- Myrna Charry
- David Atwood
Stop funding Israel. - Shahla Wahid
- Jim Cullen
Until the US congress wakes up...this will continue to go on. - Elizabeth Sternfield Axtell
The settlements are really colonies. - Private Name
- Suzanne Rogalin
- Fred Schloessinger
- Lynn Schultz
- Gloria Rubac
- Private Name
- Karen Speros
- Anne Roberts
- Mirta
To destroy our neighbor's house amounts to the destruction of the wellbeing of the whole neighborhood. The future of Israel' security resides in giving space to the Palestinians that live in Israel, Palestinian Territories included. How come that the map of Israel literally looks like the pelt of a Dalmatian dog? Each black (Palestinian) spot becoming a Ghetto? We all neighbors in this planet should strive to make those spots part of a pelt with no blemishes, keeping the integrity of a pelt that should be unique and beautiful. - leterrier
- Private Name
- Donald B. Lassus
Dear Madam Secretary Clinton,
Please be firm in condemning these demolitions to be consistent with our new disapproval of the settlement building.
Thank you,
Donald Lassus - Kelly Epstein
- Terry Meade
- Carol Anders
If the "average American" only knew that our government is supports - the right of a the Israeli government to demolish a Palestinian home often passed on from generations, so that a "settler" often from a distant place can claim it as "home". Our citizenry would be as outraged, as I am. - Duane Ediger
Natural growth is not accomplished by theft. - Rev. John Moriarty
(Member, Presbyterian Church/USA ISRAEL-PALESTINE MISSION NETWORK. Stop the house demolitions! - LEE LOE
THE U.S. HAS LOST ITS MORALITY. ISRAEL MUST FOLLOW THE LAW AND MOVE TO ITS 1967 BORDERS. YOU/WE MUST ACT ACCORDINGLY AND NOT ALLOW/ENCOURAGE THEIR LAWLESSNESS. LEE LOE, GRANDMOTHER FOR PEACE - Jane Jewell
Equal rights for all.
Shame on Israel! - Private Name
- Jane Bark
- Barbara Bogard
Peace, freedom, and justice for all. - Rizk Ikhrais
House demolition = peace demolition - Janet Gottler
- Paul F Vander Linden
- Mary Ann Frese Witt
- Jeanie Shaterian
House demolitions are an outrage against all men, women, and children everywhere. Stop them. - Geoffrey Moist
- Nawal Tamimi
Let us see good change for the people of Palestine-change we all can believe in! - vivian zelaya
- Dorothy P. Wonder
- Susan Brooksbank
- Private Name
- Tom McAfee
- Anne Dinneen
- youssef fakhreddine
End home demolitions now. Build replacement homes for those the Israeli government demolished. - Karen Hartwell
Member, Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights, Austin, TX - D. Emily Brown
The time is long gone for two-sided discussion. House demolition in Palestine must be stopped now. - Mike Caggiano
- Daniel Onorato
No just peace between Israel and the Palestinians is possible if Israel continues to expand settlements in the West Bank and demolish Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. I support nonviolent efforts to pressure Israel to stop these forms of violence and rededicate itself to negotiating in good faith for the creation of a viable, independent Palestinian State so that both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace. - Delia McGrath
Honor the international laws and the basic human rights of all people to have homes that are safe and protected from being unjustly demolished. Thank you! - james watts
- Emily Wheeler
- Farah Fakhreddine
- Aisha J.
- Walter Birdwell
- Roshni Rustomji
- Moneta S. Prince
- Leah Johnson
- BernadineCarpenter
I am ashamed of my nation and our leaders wh have chosen to blantly ignore international law on this matter .... - Catherine Orozco
- Mary C. jansen
- Rev. James E. Ray
If a similar denial of a permit to build one's house was imposed here in the USA there would be also chaos in our streets. Mr President use your power to end these inhuman house demolitions. - Private Name
Please stop Israel from creating further barriers to peace. I went to Palestine / Israel recently, and I couldn't believe my eyes. I have never seen such racism in my life. I didn't know that ethnic cleansing could ever be so unchallenged by the world, especially in the land that Jesus walked. It is disgusting, and our tax dollars support it. This must stop and now! John - Lydia Gattanell
- Private Name
Please take a strong stand and avoid further lukewarm rhetoric. - Sharon Shohfi
- Linda Carraway
Palestinian home demolition is illegal according to international law. Israel's creation of its own new laws or ordinances is a fraud and does not
transcend international law. - omar ali
- imran ali
- mary izett
- rev dr John Anderson
- Gary Dorko
Without justice there can be no peace. - Osama Malik
- Yasser Mumtaz
- Private Name
- Jenny Amanda Hurwitz
So we Jews and Palestinians can all live in peace and with love for each other. - linda daniels-hernandez
- Dave Stewart, Bloomington Indiana U.S.A.
- Suzanne Simon Hodes
- Rev. Will McGarvey
- Miriam Hoda
- eileen stevens
I support all aspects of the Palestinean struggle for justice and basic human rights. - Cecelia Lavan, OP
- Sharat G. Lin
- emine kunter
- Nancy Keiler
Let us help the Palestinians as much as we can, we owe them. I have friends who were kicked out of
their homes in Palestine decades ago. Please end house demolition. - Janice Rothstein
- Syed Rizvi
House demolition defies any standard of humanity and civilization. Please help stop it. - Merriam Kathaleen
- Judy Morris, O.P.
- Deacon Tony Cuseo
- Margaret Briody
- Gina Fleming
- Margaret Kavanagh, OP
- Private Name
- barbara Werner
- Sr. Joel Campbell
This is long overdue. - Marguerite Chandler
- Roserita Weber, OP
- Mary Noel
- Patricia Lyons, OPA
- Mary Ann Budka
- Ernestine Wenz
- Maxine Shonk OP
- Mary Ruth Leandres, OP
- Private Name
- Lois McGovern, OP
- Janice Bachman
- Theresa Damicone
- Marilyn Pierson
- E. V. Shaw, OP
To live in one's home with dignity is a basic human right and condition to peace in the neighborhood. Israelis know this. May the Palestinian people be allowed to live in peace. - Private Name
Please stop the violence directed against civilians in their homes! - Theresa Fox, OP
- Janice A. Wilson, OPA
- Rita Busch, OP
- Elaine Osborne OP
- Anne Keenan
- Robin Richard, OP
- Virginia A.Kroos
- Mary Ann Wiesemann-Mills
- Angeline Magro, O.P.
- Private Name
- Cornelia Bock O.P.
- Geraldine Milbert
- Sr. Maria E. Martinez
The time for justice is now. Too much time wasted as more people die. - Patricia Hogan
- Sr. Dorothy Trosclair OP
- Private Name
please respect rights of the Palestinians. - Jane Belanger, OP
- Juliana D\'Amato, O.P.
I have been to Israel and Palestine. How can you desire peace while perpetrating injustice? - Adele Sheffieck
- Sr. Alicia Alvarado, OP
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! STOP THIS MADNESS. - Louise Hageman
- Patricia Chaffee, OP
I have been to the West Bank and heard stories of home demolition. The US cannot continue to support this injustie. - Rose Riley
- Mary Faith Geelan
- Suzanne Brauer,OP
- Pasquale Manalio
- David farrugia, O.P.
This has TO STOP. Enough is enough. Stop it.!!!! - Peggy Linane, O.P.
Ia an Amityville Dominican and I am delighted to sign this petition that will help put an end to injustice. Let there be peace in Jerusalem and our world. - Rosalita Judge
- Paul Conner, O.P.
Israelis, If you want peace, stop stirring up hatred and revenge. - Una C. Bourgeois
- Carol Fuster
This is passive terrorism on Israel's behalf and American dollars funding it. - Nora Adelman
- Catherine McKernan
- Private Name
This should not be permittd to continue - mary coleman
- Rosalinda Martinez
- Christopher P. Tsombanis
Heartless, hypocritical savages.... purveyors of APARTHEID - Private Name
- Rosemary McLoughlin
- Jeanne Moore, O.P.
- Private Name
- Carol A. Beesing
Why must those who historically been oppressed become oppressors of others? Please help break the cycle of oppression. - Ann Warlick OPA
- Private Name
When will the 'sleeping giant' - the American Public', wake up to this injustice? Thanks to our
"free" press, they remain remarkably uninformed about Israel's egregious house demolitions policy. - Giulii Zobelein
- Gloria Marie Jones, OP
- Ingtrid Clemmensen
- bob hanson
- Raj Sahai
- Mary Jo Fox
I PLEAD FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO STAND UP FOR JUSTICE FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE - Margery Race
- Private Name
I continue to be appalled at the amount of money we give Israel in light of the continued abuses of human rights toward Palestinians. STOP! - Marie Condon
- Rosaire Lucassen
- mary alice neylon
- Private Name
- Fran Miles
The present actions are inhumane, unjust,beneath human dignity. - Marie Lucek
- Bernadine Baltrinic
- Sister Rose Mary Stein OP
- Christine Krause
- Helena M. Sause, OP
- Janette Wicker
- catherine houtakker
Do onto others as you would want them to do to you. - Lani Simmons Bright
- Flora Breidenbach
It's time for peace in Palestine/Israel! The U.S. must do everything in its power to stop this inhumane treatment of the Palestinian people. - Private Name
- KC Young
- Marie Seckar
Working for justice in these matters is vital. - Mary Rhatigan
- Mariel Bronson
- Mary T Schneider
- Private Name
- Sandra Oriel
No words to express how horrific Israel's house demolitions are. As a Jewish American I plead with the U.S. gov't to put enormous pressure on Israel to stop this evil. - Mary Ellen O\'Dea, OP
President Obama and Secretary Clinton, please do all in your power to support this campaign. Housing is a basic human right! - Mary Pat Beatty
- Rosemary Loomis, OP
- Gretchen Sills, OP
- Marlene Fogarty
- Private Name
- Carmen Rostar, O.P.
- Jo Anne Leo,O.P.
- Private Name
As an American citize, I urge justice and respect for our brothers and siters. President Obama,please do the same. Thank you. - Kathy Komarek
- Private Name
- Orlanda Leyba
For 2 months (Sept., Oct. 2009) I personally witnessed the divisions in Communities and families initiated by the Israeli government. This horrendous injustice has to stop. - Rev. Ann Marie Coleman
- Marjorie Vangsness
I have been praying so long for the Palestian cause. - Mary T Vaccaro
- Mary L. Janowiak OP
Putting myself in the place of the Palestinian people lends urgency to this request. - Megan McElroy, OP
- Private Name
- Virginia Geniesse
- Patricia Davis
Sadly I have seen the Caterpillar tractors from my hometown of Peoria at the wall in Bethlehem resting before/after tearing down homes and orchards for the wall. - Mary Ellen Robertson
- Ardeth Platte, O.P.
We pray and plead for an end to war, an end to destruction, an end to funding Israel's militarism, and end to nuclear weapons and steps to loving and just relations with all nations. - Susanne Brodeur
- Rose Bowen
This injustice has gone on too long. - Private Name
- Private Name
- Anthony R.
- Private Name
- Michael Bass
- BETSY MACLEAN
- mary p leahy
Stopping the demolitions is a step toward living as good neighbors. - Joan Duerst
- Mudassar Taswir
- ali mehran
InshAllah we ll destroy this zionist base.
black flag army - Sam Broughton
Obama and his 'administration' are just as guilty of war crimes as those running Israel, Britain, France, and virtually all nations. Aggressive removal and replacement of those in power is the only way to change things for the better. That will not happen without some serious disintegration in the structure of society... - Faisal Khan
The War Against Palestine - when will it end? Israel are liable for an infinite number of war crimes - they should not be allowed to destroy the lives of Palestinians. Enough is enough! There is no natural growth - these are all excuses - one must remember, Israel are occupying the Palestinians land and this expansion should not continue - it is illegel, immoral, and simply disgusting. FREE PALESTINE and have regard to basic HUMAN RIGHTS! - jeanne clark
- Mr James J Steffens, OP
- Fr. Michael S. Fones
I will continue my prayers for a peaceful resolution to this age-old conflict. - Hesham Shawa
- Lars Lindeberg
- Adela Brent
Israel must accept responsibility for its actions and do what is right. US, stop cooperating with Israel. - keith sadler
- Claudette Schiratti
- pat cuviello
- Haifa Rasasi
Shame on America for funding a brutal apartheid regime. America's history is stained with slavery and now it is apartheid that you want us to believe your Israelis "colony" is a democracy. - Jenny Bourgeois
The fate of that region is SO important for world peace on the whole! We musn't allow the prejudice of some of the Israelis to overshadow what is essentially the same human rights the Jewish people ask for. - Stanwood Nutter
Stop funding the IDF that is putting my children and grandchildren at risk. - marilyn mihalic
- Marian M Lynch



