End Demolitions Now!

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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1. Edith Garwood
2. Sana Javed
3. Hana Elhattab
   Please, enough with the injustice..
4. hala
5. Mary Tuma
6. Basem Hannosh
7. David Williams
8. Salek Khalid
9. 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
10. Tom Stern
11. 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.
12. Dr. Hassan Fouda
13. Anees Assali
14. Brianna Gordon
15. 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.
16. Judith Kolokoff
    Please put your action where your words are. It's time!
17. 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
18. 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."
19. Linda Heaney
    keep up the good work
20. 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.
21. Joy Messinger
22. Danielle Turner
23. 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.
24. Noah Link
25. Mary H Miller
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Jonne Long
29. Terry M Allen
30. Robert Moyer
31. Private Name
32. penny harris
33. 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 !
34. Sherryl Kleinman
    The policies bring shame to Jews everywhere, and thus increase anti-Semitism. Without justice there will never be peace for Jews anywhere.
35. 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.
36. Marguerite Warner
37. Amy Wilkins
38. Sheila Sullivan
    This policy must end immediately!
39. Lauren Campbell
40. Dr. Jim Rothwell
41. Beatrice Eichten
42. R. Martin Smith
43. Matthew Ezzell
44. 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.
45. Dee Pope
46. Joyce and John Cassel
47. Carol Horwitz
    It is scandalous that we, as US taxpayers, are paying for Israeli's war crimes against the Palestinian people, including house demolitions.
48. Leo and Liz Barrington
49. 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.
50. Claudia Chaufan
51. Jane Adas
52. Barbara Heisler
53. Private Name
54. Sarah Ann Donnelly
    I have seen the senseless destruction. There is no ligitimate reason to justify these demolition. Enough!
55. Julianne H. Gustafson-Lira
    You. President Obama, were called to be courageous. Do what is right.
56. Judy Neunuebel
57. 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.
58. 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!
59. Aracy Winter
60. Em Scott
61. Bernice Youtz
    As an American voter, tax-payer, I am appalled that my government permits and funds Israel's illegal and inhuman actions.
62. Ed Bender
    The US cannot allow such abuse to continue
63. David Crump
64. 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
65. grace White
    Please let the people of Palestine live in peace and dignity
66. Private Name
67. 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.
68. Cheri Black
69. Stuart Shadwell
70. Rebecca Horwitz
71. Janet L. Dykstra
72. Terry Fletcher
73. Karen Platt
    You know this is the right thing to do.
74. Sydney Levy
75. Kamal L. Wyatt
    Just Peace
76. Racheli Gai
77. Sara Norman
78. Michael Levin
79. 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?
80. Mara Rivera
81. Judith Norman
82. Lynne Kavin
83. Martha Wallner
84. Annette Herskovits
85. 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.
86. Susan Harman
87. 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.
88. Private Name
89. Private Name
90. Dave Reed
91. Bruce Ballin
92. Richard A Shook, DVM
93. 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.
94. silvia tennenbaum
    enough is enough! when will this illegal and inhuman policy end?
95. Mehrene Larudee
96. Marge Sussman
97. Shimon Gottschalk
    Please be aware of the fat that AIPAC does not reresent the Jewish majority in America
98. Private Name
99. Mason Wilson
100. 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
101. Cindy Shamban
102. judith kahn munger
103. Alice Diane Kisch
     Please, for once, let the United States of America be on the right side of history ...
104. 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?
105. Bonnie L. Block
     Until Israel ends its unjust treatment of Palestinians there can be no hope for peace.
106. Tova Perlmutter
107. Sherry Ann Chapman
108. Judith Loebl
109. Burton Steck
110. Kriss Avery
111. Bruce Taub
112. Maria Alexandrino
     When I think on how the Palestinian people live under occupation, I think of camps, if not death camps, certainly concentration camps.
113. Lori Rudolph
114. 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.
115. Denise Rickles
116. David L. Mandel
117. Elyse Crystall
118. Private Name
119. Glen Hauer
     One of your Jewish constituents.
120. Bruce Gould
121. Leslie Lomas
122. Sharon de-Wit
123. Jennifer Bing-Canar
124. Jacob Nammar
125. 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.
126. Miryam Rashid
127. Esther Riley
     We need action, not just words. How about suspending U.S. aid to Israel until this practice stops?
128. Susan Severin
129. 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.
130. Mary Louise Gotthold
131. Joseph Levine
132. Nancy Hanson
133. 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.
134. 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.
135. Paola Canarutto
136. Barbara Bogard
     A Jewish voice against occupation and home demolition.
137. Benno Barg
138. Robin VanTassell
139. Yotam Amit
     Home demolitions contribute to no one's security
140. 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.
141. Private Name
142. Gabriela Segade
143. Jacqueline Muller
144. Kenneth Ring
145. 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.
146. Kit Everts
147. Rev. Linda Theophilus
148. Rev. Dennis Orsen
149. Caroline Herzenberg
150. Katherine Bayoud
     This has continued far too long. Home demolition and settlement building must be stopped immediately.
151. June Krisch
152. Roger Harris
153. 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.
154. Edith Cacciatore
155. Private Name
156. Roger Stoll
157. Cynthia Whitman-Bradley
158. Greg Thomas
     Unconscionable, unforgivable treatment of Palestinians.
159. 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.
160. Daniel Mahoney
     Stop the bulldozer terrorism that our tax dollars are paying for. Boycott Caterpillar.
161. 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.
162. Robert Tripp
163. Merle Bachman
164. David klafter
165. Daniel Szyld
166. Jean Tepperman
167. Private Name
168. Mike Coogan
169. Joshua Glasser
170. 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!!
171. 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?
172. Brandon West
173. Dave Lippman
174. 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.
175. Adrienne Gawlowski
176. Private Name
177. shirley Capshaw
178. stefany gordon
179. Christian Haesemeyer
180. Ellen Shatter
181. Susan Schacher
182. Tony Macias
183. Nina Triffleman
184. Leslie Simoon
185. John H. Erickson
186. Jethro Eisenstein
187. Paul Quintanilla
188. 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.
189. Barbara Glassman
190. Margaret Holdsworth
     There can be no "Middle East" solution until this and other outstanding issues are resolved.
191. 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.
192. Clifford Rosenthal
193. Kermit Yoder
194. Mr and Mrs Irwin Luckman
195. Clarissa Mansfield
196. Carolyn Eisenberg
197. Michael Reshetnik
     We cannot ignore or condone this oppression.
198. Dayne Goodwin
     Secretary, Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice,
     Salt Lake City, Utah
199. ian
200. carole Wilbourn
     Stop the demolition of Palestinian homes.
201. Christopher Lish
202. 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.
203. Trude Bennett
204. evelyn Haas
205. sue rouda
206. Libby Frank
207. frank mcginty
     Bulldozers won't bring peace.
208. 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.
209. Claudia Chaufan
210. Private Name
211. Mark Haas
212. Chase Foster
213. 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!!
214. Marilyn Sutton Loos
215. Private Name
     Enough destruction of innocent lives!!!!!!!
216. The Rev. Jeff Douglas
217. PAUL McNAMARA
     Criminal, heartbreaking,we have sanctioned other countries for far less than this.
218. Toni F Borge
219. Linda Holtzman
220. Bella august
     It is long past time to stop coddling Israel--use our financial leverage on this issue
221. 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?
222. paul siemering
     you need to stop all abuse of Palestinians now.
223. Betty Likis
224. 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.
225. Judy Amarah
226. Albert Johns
227. Elmer Occhiuzzo
228. Diane Adkin
229. Susan Davenport
230. Uday Jhunjhunwala
231. Soraya Saley
232. Laurie Knightly
     How low can you sink?
233. 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.
234. 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.
235. Gene Kanaan
236. Rosemary Hershberger
237. 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
238. gordon reed
239. Private Name
240. 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!
241. tony Rukab
242. Peter Chabarek
243. Norrie Thompson
     My country's support for Israel's theft of Palestinian land, future, and dignity is a humanitarian disgrace.
244. 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.
245. William R. Seaman
246. 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.
247. 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.
248. margaret killip
249. dora haslett
     this arrogant, illegal policy has continued far too long.
250. Edward Briody
     These home demolitions incite people to demolish buildings in the USA and kill our troops.
251. Leroy Fassett
252. Henry Clifford
253. 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.
254. John J. DeKort
255. Loren Boline
256. Private Name
257. Peter D. Durant
     End the genocide in Palestine!
258. 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
259. Rev. Gretchen Winkler
260. Naila JIrmanus
261. gloria massa
262. Angela Godfrey-Goldstein
263. 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.
264. Mary Anderson
265. Sam Salti
     Palestinians have the right to live! They are humans!!! STOP THE ISRAELI WAR CRIME MACHINE.
266. Sean Martens
267. Meriwether Falk
268. Debbie Johnson
269. rudolph meyer
     It is time to requier Israel to abide by international law
270. 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.
271. freddie johnson
272. John Nissen
273. Ida Nissen
274. 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.
275. Charlotte Prozan
276. 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.
277. Taylor Markey
278. 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!
279. Marilyn Thompson
280. Christine W. Abbyad
281. Edward R. Brandt, Ph.D.
     An Eisenhower Republican for two-thirds of my adult, later a Perot and then a Nader supporter.
282. 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!
283. 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
284. Samira Turk
285. Louis Angelos
286. Koryn Lloyd
287. 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.
288. Ronald Zera
289. Joe Salazar
     These crimes must end now.
290. Warren Keller
291. Marion I. Lipshutz
292. Gilbert Lawall
293. Ed Eadeh
294. 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".
295. Lucas Koerner
     As an American Jew, Israel does not speak for me.
296. 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!
297. James Harlin
     Justice for Palestine... you know...what you espoused during the election.
298. Christopher Ho
299. 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!
300. Francisco
301. Ann Mallouk
302. Barbara Nash
303. Ahmed Sakkal
304. Robert Fiske
305. Manal Fakhoury
     Please be fair and wise and take action to stop this long over-due and paramount injustice.
306. LAURIE FOX
307. Tracy S. Feldman
308. Lorna Henkel
309. LoErna Simpson
     House demolitions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem MUST be stopped!
310. Private Name
     How many Americans would tolerate their land being stolen and their property destroyed by their next-door neighbor?
311. 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.
312. Barbara Smith
313. melinda Beard
     Oh Israel-stop disappointing us!
314. Ann Cohen
315. barbara Engel
316. Private Name
317. 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.
318. Susan Sheinfeld
319. Linda Cohen
320. 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.
321. Mike Gullion
322. Jeff Warner
323. Mel Packer
     The failure of your administration to stop this inhumane policy will go down in history as your tacit approval of ethnic cleansing.
324. Tim Hopkins
     One Secular Revolutionary State! U.S. Out!
325. Yogesh Grover
     Demolition of houses of innocent people is an act of state terrorism.
326. Nancy Kricorian
327. Ford Chambliss
328. Margaret McIntyre
     True friends speak up when their friends do something wrong.
329. Devereaux Kennedy
330. Catharine White
331. Don Maclay
332. Georgia Guida
     Peace and justice now
333. Raina Hassan
334. Private Name
335. Marie France
336. Sami W. Abed
     Stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Only justice, equity, and balance will allow for peace.
337. Michelle Cohen
338. Laurel Sprague
339. Rudy Ramp
340. Helen Engelhardt
     If not now, when?
341. Ramkumar Sridharan
342. 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.
343. Saul Noam Zaritt
344. Lorie (Loreta) Wood
     The time is now! There can be no further delays.
345. Sharif Zakout
     Its important to open our eyes to these injustices, over 60 years, its been far too long
346. Joy Martin
347. Marian Royer
348. Rebecca Subar
349. safwat Malek
350. Private Name
351. 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.
352. 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.
353. patricia hewett
     This practice is reprehensible and just must stop.
354. Private Name
     Home demolition is ethnic cleansing and crime against humanity. Silence is complicity.
355. Rick Childs
     Time to let Israel the Holocaust no longer gives them a free pass on human rights violations!!
356. Phoebe Sheftel
357. Carol Marsh
358. Audrey Bomse, Esq.
     As a Jew and a civil rights attorney, I am 100% behind this campaign.
359. Marcia Heath
360. Barbara Aswad
     Withhold some of our taxpayers money that is helping to do this.
361. Ross and Gwin Jones
362. Steven Botticelli
363. Ajay Skaria
364. 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!
365. Stanwood Nutter
366. Dan Kelly
367. Harriet Malinowitz
368. PETER VIERING
369. 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.
370. Ronald Shiffman
371. 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.
372. 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.
373. Private Name
374. john weber
     House demolitions in Occupied Territory are Illegal, shocking, and outrageous. Stop condoning them. Stop supporting them.
375. Michael Liebert
376. Les Canges
     If you can't hear the world begging you to stop, at least listen to your still small voice.
377. Amy Pett
     I am one of many American Jews who are opposed to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
378. 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.
379. Private Name
     Demolition is an inhumane act. What if the reverse were taking place?
380. Elaine G. Schwartz, Ph.D.
381. Nadia Sindi
     STOP your Natural Growth Right Now! You are doing nothing for Peace. Stop your slavery.
382. Jordan Kushner
383. Cheryl Sharps
384. Evan Weissman
385. 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.
386. Virginia Baron
387. Sylvia Schwarz
388. 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.
389. Joyce Guinn
390. Marian Feinberg
391. Naomi Harrison
392. Joanne Heisel
393. Donna Hicks
394. 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
395. Ellen Robinson
396. Jenny Hochstetler
397. luke charles
398. Alan Arnold
     If you cannot overcome a US Congress purchased by Likud, you must still condemn, for the world to see.
399. Jeffrey (Rusty) Curling
     Settlement expansion has always come at the expense of Palestinian families. end home demolitions and evacuate settlements now.
400. Ehnaeull E. G. Gonçalves
     if they didn't stop, we have to stop them!
401. Francis Nicosia
402. Stefanie Brendler
403. rukhsana ghouse
404. Carolyn Corzine
     Doesn't it matter that these demolitions are happening in E. Jerusalem now!!!
405. 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!
406. William P. Aldrich
407. Andrea Whitmore
408. doris rausch
     What right has Israel to issue, or deny, building permits in the West Bank, E. Jerusalem, and Gaza??!!
409. James L. Bailey
     I too have witnessed the demolished houses in the
     West Bank. House Demolitions must be stopped.
410. Susan Landau
411. Eric Salitsky
412. Kevin Gerard Rashid
413. 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
414. Caren Levy-Van Slyke
415. Erwin K Kerr
416. Private Name
417. David Nir
     This state of cruelty must be stopped. Unstopped, the abuser intensifies his assault on humanness and justice.
418. Ray Gordon
     End Israeli house demolitions and evictions of Palestinians so Jewish settlers can move in.
419. lynn segak
420. Janice Hart
421. Ryan Nelson
422. Marilyn Brunger
     It's time we stop supporting this inhumanity with our tax dollars that go to Israel.
423. 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!
424. Heike Schotten
425. Helen Holtz
426. 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.
427. Bernadette Garcia
     we must stand for justice for the Palestinian people
428. 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
429. Gerri Haynes
430. Wayne Pressler
431. 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.
432. Private Name
433. Matthew Thomas Miller
434. David Matos
     Staopping settlements AND home demolitions is a nececessary prerequisite for peace negotiations. If Israel continues, we should freeze US taxpayer supplied aid.
435. Private Name
436. Amer Elmughrabi
     Please End it
437. nashwan hamza
438. Robert Brookover
     The Middle East will continue to be in turmoil until this issue is settled.
439. Dr. William Dienst
     Stop the hypocracy!
440. Anthony Ernst
441. Private Name
442. Noel Sanborm
443. Janet Tice
     No one should have the right or ability to destroy another person's home. It's illegal, immoral and pure intimidation.
444. Liz Aaronsohn
445. Michelle Granas
446. Ellen Oxfeld
447. Private Name
448. Patricia Bango
449. Alice Rothchild
450. 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.
451. Private Name
452. Sulaiman Shaltoni
453. Kate Gilles
454. Elizabeth Burr
455. 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.
456. Richard Blum
457. John Lynn
458. Rita Erickson
     How can we not demand that they stop building Israeli homes on Palestinian land while Israelis continue to demolition Palestinian homes???????
459. 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.
460. David Meshoulam
     Enough is enough!
461. Joel Semakula
462. Matt Stern
463. Sam Koprak
464. Jean Entine
465. David Corcoran
     Stop the Occupation and genocide of the Palestinian People
466. Ruth S. Hertzberg
     Why does the US continue to support this brutal regime (Israeli Government)?
467. Rose Jones
468. Joyce Zonana
     There is no justification for this destruction.
469. Patrick O\'Lear
470. Sherry Gorelick
471. 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!!
472. Kyle P. Erickson
     Allowing Israel to occupy Palestinian land only strengthens terrorist recruting power.
473. Judith Deutsch
474. Private Name
475. Dr James Deutsch
     Israel can no longer hide behind a wall of rhetoric.
476. Kristin Vournas
477. MARIE FORDE
478. Nance Shatzkin
     Honor those who died in the Warsaw Ghetto. Stand for humanity. End the home demolitions.
479. Sarah Eggleston
480. 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.
481. Yolanda Aleman
482. Alvin Eshe
     Do the correct thing!
483. 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
484. Ruth/Pat Harris/Patterson
485. Roni Hammermann
486. Marilyn Lucier
487. Adam Levine
488. elisabeth geschiere
489. Kathryn levy
490. Brent Richards
491. Private Name
     Give the innocent a chance in life
492. 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.
493. Jim Peters
494. arlene coulter
     inhumanity to man is never acceptable
495. 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!
496. 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!
497. Bo Fauth
498. Courtney Childs
499. DAVID SCHLEICHER
500. Laura Stern MD
     As a humanist and a Jew I can not support this destruction of peoples homes and lives.
501. SHU-MEI HUANG
     Israel should stop the occupation!
502. Keith Houser
503. Marguerite Coyle
     Brutally usurping another's home is unconscionable.
504. Phyllis M Andrews
505. Ruth Crystal
506. Melinda Thompson
     Our failure to take a stance and make it happen is unforgivable! You have the power - use it!
507. 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.
508. Larry La Caille
     Human Rights for Palestinians. They are people, too.
509. William Lynch
510. Don Kuespert
511. Veda Stram
     END occupations! Americans are viewed as callous and ignorant by continuing to support brutal illegal occupations...anywhere.
512. 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
513. 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.
514. Victor Teich
     Back to the 1967 border NOW!
515. Sam Bernstein
516. 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.
517. Suzanne Erfurth
518. Lesly McAnelly
519. Alex Heath
520. Ilse Schlaepfer
521. peggy wallace
522. inayat taj
     When are we going to wake up???????????????
523. 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.
524. 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.
525. Private Name
526. Kathy Felgran
     "As you sow, so shall you reap". Sound familiar? Clearly, Israel does not want peace.
527. 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.
528. Michael A. Lopez
     we can co-exist! We are all in the same boat together.
529. Kay Halpern
     This type of activity runs counter to Jewish values and will harm Israel in the long run.
530. Private Name
531. Lorraine Hartmann
532. Linda Novenski
533. 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.
534. Robert Cunningham
535. Richard Kidd
536. 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.
537. Huwaida Arraf
538. Carla Curio
539. Anita Ross
540. Paul Freibott
541. Bingham Graves
542. Anne Guinan
     I realizs that you are overwhelmed with major problems, but this is also a heartbreaking situation, and completely against international law.
543. Lindsay Raspi
544. laudia Leight
545. Marissa Hildebrant
     Peace happens when we respect our homes, the place where our heart rests.
546. J. Glenn & Barbara Evans
547. Steve Schnapp
548. 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.
549. Sallye Steiner Bowyer
550. Gabriel Alkon
551. Mary Heffron
552. Robert Kastner
553. 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!
554. Marilyn Hacker
555. Amir Obeid
     End the Illegal Israeli Occupation & Apartheid Government.
556. 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.
557. Mary Davies
558. Gene Herman
     ...with liberty and justice for all. Palestinians, as well as Israeli's.
559. Abigail Hollister
560. Santa Smires
     Enough is enough!
561. carmela ieroiannni
562. gabriella bernieri
563. Ruth Marchese
564. Charles Schille, LICSW
565. Ray Eurquhart
566. Jamie Atari
     How can humans want to demolish other humans' homes and livlihoods? I don't understand it at all.
567. Laura Peck
     A cruel and barbaric policy is indefensible.
568. ILA ENDERS
     end the occupation Stop the 3billion ISRAELI GENOCIDE FUNDING BY USA TAXPAYER DOLLARS
569. Thami Smires
     do to others as you would have them do to you
570. Shefali Kaul
571. Joseph Arrabito
572. Laura Closson
573. Private Name
     destroying Palestinian homes and land is no way to peace !
574. Walid Shumareye
575. Maren Behrend
576. anna Nilsson
     Walls bring hatred and escalates violence.
577. 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?
578. Lee Baker
     Settlements in Palestinian territories are illegal and prevent peace in the area.
579. Jamie Closson
580. Michael Clyne
581. Peter Ungar
582. Sarah Green
583. 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.
584. Private Name
585. jeff kipilman
     natural growth is code for settlement expansion. freeze all settlements.
586. JACQUELINE MILLER
587. Valori George
588. Private Name
589. 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
590. M. L. Coombs
     STOP ALL AID TO THE TERRORIST STATE OF ISRAEL, NOW!!!!!!
591. Daryl Bohning
592. 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.
593. Bert Aubrey
     Free Palestine
594. 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!!!
595. Bernie Eisenberg
596. Private Name
     Please see that justice is done to the Palestinians. Abolish the settlements and stop allowing homes to be destroyed inPalestine territory!!
597. Sammy Rayyan
598. joanne Frey
599. Julie Webb
     Please, please, please stop the demolition of Palestinian houses!
600. Joshua Hough
601. Rachel C. Fletcher
602. Private Name
     Offering prayers for peace on earth.
603. Jane Stein
604. Karen Kirschling
605. Suhail Shafi
     Stop Bulldozing Palestine. Stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians off their land !
606. Private Name
607. Private Name
608. 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!
609. eileen fleming
610. Ronald Fuchs
611. Sandy Anderson
     Please work to eliminate this terrible injustice!
612. Rebecca Vilkomerson
613. KJA
614. Private Name
615. 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.
616. Private Name
617. Nancy M. Pratt
618. Emily McNeill
619. 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.
620. 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!
621. Stanley Bercovitz
622. John Gaston
     Religion without justice is hollow.
623. Himani Bannerji
624. Amal
625. Vivian L. Wood
626. Sarah Crawford-Browne
627. kevin moloney
628. 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.
629. Mark H Gaffney
630. Karen Klein
631. 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.
632. 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.
633. Sama Alshaibi
634. karen redleaf
635. Rebecca Hopskotch
     please stop demolishing Palestinian homes!
636. Roula Seikaly
637. Caitlin Robertson
638. Donn Trautman
639. Bea Kirby
     I wholeheatedly endorse this petition!
640. Barbara Hanst
     It's way past time for the US to put pressure on Israel to stop these demolitions!
641. Dorothy and Robert Osborn
     This is such an important issue; please read this message caarefully.
642. Muhammad Ismail
643. Bernadine Mellis
644. Henry Landau
     A just peace will never occur while Israel continues to provoke.
645. 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.
646. 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.
647. Elizabeth Loikow
648. Rob Wall
649. Randy Kehler
650. 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.
651. Clarence Hoop
     This is a difficult issue that will only end badly if it continues. Right now it is lose-lose.
652. jan smith
     spare the rod,spoil the child - now we know how true it is.
653. Sid Frankel
     Mr. Obama should not be picking up his Peace Prize.
654. Gilah Morse
655. Stan Current
656. Pieter Niemeyer
657. Private Name
658. 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.
659. R. Bruce King
660. Edgar A. Towne
     U.S. support of Israeli policies in East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank is as unconscionable as are those policies!
661. Carole Burnett
662. Martha Nathan MD
     It is an international crime to destroy people's homes. This is a shame on Israel.
663. Ruth Hooke
     Act now! Stop demolitions! They are inhuman!
664. Todd Lindblom
665. Hedy Epstein
666. 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.
667. Sid Shniad
     It is time for resolute action to end Israeli impunity.
668. 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
669. Samuel Jordan
     When there is peace, there will be one state.
670. Shilpa Jindia
671. Signe Myklebust
672. Jenny Oskarsson
673. Fabienne Presentey
674. Dr Adrian Fine
     America and Israel have the same degree of moral blindness towards the basic human rights of Palestinians
675. Siddiq
     End the Illegal occupations and demolitions !!!
676. Reg McQuaid
     Do not use violence in the name of religion!
677. David Van Strien
678. Louise Antony
     Please honor your Peace Prize: use your unique position to remove this obstacle to Middle East peace.
679. Bill Durland
680. Julie Guard
681. George M Likis
682. Ruth Elkin
683. Richard Caslow
684. Greg Starr
685. Andrea Lawlor
686. 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
687. Erica Hahn
     It is so important that Israel take this simple step, and so critical. The US must urge it.
688. 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.
689. Mark Kiser
     True peace for all only with justice for all.
690. Randy Martin
691. Marilyn Goodman
692. Susan E. Hauser
693. John Downing
694. DeAnne Riddle
695. Monica Stouffer
696. Private Name
697. Ursula Fischer-Smircich
698. Cedar Dvorin
699. Jette Marcher
700. 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.
701. 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.
702. Frederick M. Rosen
703. 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.
704. Carolyn Walden
     I have been there myself, including this year, so I have seen this travesty with my own eyes!
705. Peter Dupont Weiss
706. Mai Hoff Skovgaard
707. 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.
708. Thom Lufkin
709. Susan Conway
710. 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
711. Samuel L. Liman
712. 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.
713. Den Mark Wichar
     Justice For Palestine, NOW!
714. Eleanor Kinnaird
715. Sini Maury
716. Nancy Steeves
717. Una Staples
718. Pat Gracian
     Stop protecting the criminal government of Israel- guilty of the ultimate crime against humanity- genocide.
719. Mark D. Stansbery
720. Ian Vaver
721. Erik Stark
722. Rev. Irvin Nussdorfer
     The time has come to demand the actions of Israel in the destruction of homes.
723. Robert Piller
724. John E. Coleman
725. Sam Blan
726. Betsy Mayfield
727. 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.
728. Matthew Michael
729. Barbara Gerten
     I do not want my tax dollars funding these criminal and inhumane acts. Please stop the oppression of the Palestinians.
730. Peter Hudyman
731. wally martin
732. Nihaya Mizyed
733. Margaret and Ed Tegenfeldt
734. Anton Iorga
735. Shereef AbdelRahman Khafagi
736. Elie Elias
     STOP THE ILLEGAL OCUUPATION, AND STOP THE ILLEGAL DEMOLITION OF HOMES.
737. Dennis Bricker
738. raina whan
739. Elsa J. Marty
740. Antonia Mandry
741. Fátima Martínez - Paraguay
742. Private Name
743. Judy Davis
744. Rosalyn baxandall
745. 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.
746. Matthew William Miller
747. Rosemary Agonito
748. constance st jean
     ISRAEL IS COMMITING GENOCIDE, TERROR AND EVIL HARASSMENT OF THE PALESTINIANS.
749. Emily Zisette
750. margaret copi
751. Stephanie Holland
752. Delfina Pei
753. Cornelia van Thiel
     These demolitions are racist and unjust.
754. 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.
755. Ioanna Gutas
756. Janie M. Stein
757. Jeanie Hagedorn
758. 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!
759. 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.
760. Deborah S. Van Damme
     The genocide of the Palestinian people by the Jewish state must be stopped now.
761. Clarice J. McKenzie
762. Anis B. Salib
763. C.F.Williams
     You wouldn't want to have this happen to you so don't allow it to happen to anyone else.
764. Private Name
765. Private Name
766. Private Name
767. David and Polly Johnson
768. Esther Ho
769. Mark Fuller
     History need not repeat itself, let us stop this inhumane treatment now.
770. Marcia Tyriver
771. Private Name
     End Israeli occupation of Palestine NOW!!!!
772. Jo Lucas
     Now Today
773. 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!
774. jim Lucas
775. Suzanne Medgyesi-Mitschang
     Pope Paul II declared that "If you want peace, work towards justice." Justice and peace demand the home demolitions must end!
776. Lynn Travis
777. Glenna Kay Plitt
778. Caroline Best
779. barbara crandall
     there's no holy in the holyland!
780. Private Name
781. john case
782. Alan Zaslavsky
783. Private Name
     We have to call it what it is... Apartheid. The arrogance and the cruelty of the Israelis is astounding.
784. Private Name
785. Mahi
     Be free
786. Colin Smith
787. Bruce Edwards, Canada
     Please don't betray people who believe in you.
788. Amy Harlib
     Barbaric arrogance and intolerance must end and respect for human rights must begin.
789. paul almond
790. Vladymir Gómez
     Please, end it now.
791. Mark M Giese
792. Eulalia Villuendas Huguet
793. Susan T. Nicholson
794. J Lander
     I am appalled at Israel's actions. How can this be classed as searching for a peaceful settlement?
795. Ann Klein
796. Jelica Roland
797. m
798. Laurie DesJardins Ferhani
799. Juan Camacho
800. 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.
801. Susan Oehler
802. Deborah Potter
803. 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)
804. Chris Ringwalt
     Let us not be complicit by remaining silent in this continuing affront to peace and justice.
805. Patricia Walsh
     "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
     
     --Martin Luther King
806. Patrick Gesnot
     Housedemolition is a violation of human rights. Boycott products from Israel. Europe should stop diplomatic relations with Israel.
807. Private Name
808. Alan Wood
809. Private Name
810. Sharon Lo
811. PFEIL Hélène
812. Merlin Seller
813. Howard Rubinstein
814. Rowena Harry
815. Donna Schumann
816. Mary Lou Leiser Smith
817. Man Abu Taleb
818. Donna Barten
819. Jim Munroe
820. Lee Cheek
821. Michael Barten
822. Kathleen Piraino
823. Paul and Joan Waller
824. Helena
825. 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.
826. Richard Tait
     Israeli intransigence will not change without forceful pressure from the United States.It must change if there is to be durable peace.
827. Hermann Kurthen
828. Joel Stillerman
829. Daniel Sheets
830. Private Name
     I prefer my name to be included in the LA Jews for Peace membership rather than individually, not both
831. steve
832. Trude Steiro
833. Bobi
834. Shireen
     It's time you end the house demolitions! Freeze the settlements. Give justice to the Palestinians!!!
835. 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?
836. LAJ Jews for Peace
837. Ineke Way
838. Private Name
     thank you for this important work!
839. Judith Brown
     Every house demolished means at last one mother and family are forced to live in despairs.
840. Dolores Jackson
     This genocide must stop. The blood of these innocent people is on your heads USA, Israel, UK and you client warmongering states
841. Private Name
     End the second Holocaust now!
842. Private Name
843. gina awadallah
     stop the palestinian holocaust!!!!!!!
844. gary howard
845. betty mazur
846. 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.
847. Frieda Behets
848. Vernon Whitney
849. cherie Gorman
850. Edward Borchardt
851. marjorie ford
852. Michele Mattingly
853. Barbara Walton
     The demolitions have to stop. It's unconscionable they have been allowed to go on for so long.
854. Joan Huguenard
855. Myrna Charry
856. David Atwood
     Stop funding Israel.
857. Shahla Wahid
858. Jim Cullen
     Until the US congress wakes up...this will continue to go on.
859. Elizabeth Sternfield Axtell
     The settlements are really colonies.
860. Private Name
861. Suzanne Rogalin
862. Fred Schloessinger
863. Lynn Schultz
864. Gloria Rubac
865. Private Name
866. Karen Speros
867. Anne Roberts
868. 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.
869. leterrier
870. Private Name
871. 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
872. Kelly Epstein
873. Terry Meade
874. 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.
875. Duane Ediger
     Natural growth is not accomplished by theft.
876. Rev. John Moriarty
     (Member, Presbyterian Church/USA ISRAEL-PALESTINE MISSION NETWORK. Stop the house demolitions!
877. 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
878. Jane Jewell
     Equal rights for all.
     Shame on Israel!
879. Private Name
880. Jane Bark
881. Barbara Bogard
     Peace, freedom, and justice for all.
882. Rizk Ikhrais
     House demolition = peace demolition
883. Janet Gottler
884. Paul F Vander Linden
885. Mary Ann Frese Witt
886. Jeanie Shaterian
     House demolitions are an outrage against all men, women, and children everywhere. Stop them.
887. Geoffrey Moist
888. Nawal Tamimi
     Let us see good change for the people of Palestine-change we all can believe in!
889. vivian zelaya
890. Dorothy P. Wonder
891. Susan Brooksbank
892. Private Name
893. Tom McAfee
894. Anne Dinneen
895. youssef fakhreddine
     End home demolitions now. Build replacement homes for those the Israeli government demolished.
896. Karen Hartwell
     Member, Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights, Austin, TX
897. D. Emily Brown
     The time is long gone for two-sided discussion. House demolition in Palestine must be stopped now.
898. Mike Caggiano
899. 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.
900. 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!
901. james watts
902. Emily Wheeler
903. Farah Fakhreddine
904. Aisha J.
905. Walter Birdwell
906. Roshni Rustomji
907. Moneta S. Prince
908. Leah Johnson
909. BernadineCarpenter
     I am ashamed of my nation and our leaders wh have chosen to blantly ignore international law on this matter ....
910. Catherine Orozco
911. Mary C. jansen
912. 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.
913. 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
914. Lydia Gattanell
915. Private Name
     Please take a strong stand and avoid further lukewarm rhetoric.
916. Sharon Shohfi
917. 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.
918. omar ali
919. imran ali
920. mary izett
921. rev dr John Anderson
922. Gary Dorko
     Without justice there can be no peace.
923. Osama Malik
924. Yasser Mumtaz
925. Private Name
926. Jenny Amanda Hurwitz
     So we Jews and Palestinians can all live in peace and with love for each other.
927. linda daniels-hernandez
928. Dave Stewart, Bloomington Indiana U.S.A.
929. Suzanne Simon Hodes
930. Rev. Will McGarvey
931. Miriam Hoda
932. eileen stevens
     I support all aspects of the Palestinean struggle for justice and basic human rights.
933. Cecelia Lavan, OP
934. Sharat G. Lin
935. emine kunter
936. 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.
937. Janice Rothstein
938. Syed Rizvi
     House demolition defies any standard of humanity and civilization. Please help stop it.
939. Merriam Kathaleen
940. Judy Morris, O.P.
941. Deacon Tony Cuseo
942. Margaret Briody
943. Gina Fleming
944. Margaret Kavanagh, OP
945. Private Name
946. barbara Werner
947. Sr. Joel Campbell
     This is long overdue.
948. Marguerite Chandler
949. Roserita Weber, OP
950. Mary Noel
951. Patricia Lyons, OPA
952. Mary Ann Budka
953. Ernestine Wenz
954. Maxine Shonk OP
955. Mary Ruth Leandres, OP
956. Private Name
957. Lois McGovern, OP
958. Janice Bachman
959. Theresa Damicone
960. Marilyn Pierson
961. 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.
962. Private Name
     Please stop the violence directed against civilians in their homes!
963. Theresa Fox, OP
964. Janice A. Wilson, OPA
965. Rita Busch, OP
966. Elaine Osborne OP
967. Anne Keenan
968. Robin Richard, OP
969. Virginia A.Kroos
970. Mary Ann Wiesemann-Mills
971. Angeline Magro, O.P.
972. Private Name
973. Cornelia Bock O.P.
974. Geraldine Milbert
975. Sr. Maria E. Martinez
     The time for justice is now. Too much time wasted as more people die.
976. Patricia Hogan
977. Sr. Dorothy Trosclair OP
978. Private Name
     please respect rights of the Palestinians.
979. Jane Belanger, OP
980. Juliana D\'Amato, O.P.
     I have been to Israel and Palestine. How can you desire peace while perpetrating injustice?
981. Adele Sheffieck
982. Sr. Alicia Alvarado, OP
     ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! STOP THIS MADNESS.
983. Louise Hageman
984. Patricia Chaffee, OP
     I have been to the West Bank and heard stories of home demolition. The US cannot continue to support this injustie.
985. Rose Riley
986. Mary Faith Geelan
987. Suzanne Brauer,OP
988. Pasquale Manalio
989. David farrugia, O.P.
     This has TO STOP. Enough is enough. Stop it.!!!!
990. 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.
991. Rosalita Judge
992. Paul Conner, O.P.
     Israelis, If you want peace, stop stirring up hatred and revenge.
993. Una C. Bourgeois
994. Carol Fuster
     This is passive terrorism on Israel's behalf and American dollars funding it.
995. Nora Adelman
996. Catherine McKernan
997. Private Name
     This should not be permittd to continue
998. mary coleman
999. Rosalinda Martinez
1000. Christopher P. Tsombanis
      Heartless, hypocritical savages.... purveyors of APARTHEID
1001. Private Name
1002. Rosemary McLoughlin
1003. Jeanne Moore, O.P.
1004. Private Name
1005. Carol A. Beesing
      Why must those who historically been oppressed become oppressors of others? Please help break the cycle of oppression.
1006. Ann Warlick OPA
1007. 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.
1008. Giulii Zobelein
1009. Gloria Marie Jones, OP
1010. Ingtrid Clemmensen
1011. bob hanson
1012. Raj Sahai
1013. Mary Jo Fox
      I PLEAD FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO STAND UP FOR JUSTICE FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
1014. Margery Race
1015. 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!
1016. Marie Condon
1017. Rosaire Lucassen
1018. mary alice neylon
1019. Private Name
1020. Fran Miles
      The present actions are inhumane, unjust,beneath human dignity.
1021. Marie Lucek
1022. Bernadine Baltrinic
1023. Sister Rose Mary Stein OP
1024. Christine Krause
1025. Helena M. Sause, OP
1026. Janette Wicker
1027. catherine houtakker
      Do onto others as you would want them to do to you.
1028. Lani Simmons Bright
1029. 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.
1030. Private Name
1031. KC Young
1032. Marie Seckar
      Working for justice in these matters is vital.
1033. Mary Rhatigan
1034. Mariel Bronson
1035. Mary T Schneider
1036. Private Name
1037. 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.
1038. 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!
1039. Mary Pat Beatty
1040. Rosemary Loomis, OP
1041. Gretchen Sills, OP
1042. Marlene Fogarty
1043. Private Name
1044. Carmen Rostar, O.P.
1045. Jo Anne Leo,O.P.
1046. Private Name
      As an American citize, I urge justice and respect for our brothers and siters. President Obama,please do the same. Thank you.
1047. Kathy Komarek
1048. Private Name
1049. 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.
1050. Rev. Ann Marie Coleman
1051. Marjorie Vangsness
      I have been praying so long for the Palestian cause.
1052. Mary T Vaccaro
1053. Mary L. Janowiak OP
      Putting myself in the place of the Palestinian people lends urgency to this request.
1054. Megan McElroy, OP
1055. Private Name
1056. Virginia Geniesse
1057. 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.
1058. Mary Ellen Robertson
1059. 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.
1060. Susanne Brodeur
1061. Rose Bowen
      This injustice has gone on too long.
1062. Private Name
1063. Private Name
1064. Anthony R.
1065. Private Name
1066. Michael Bass
1067. BETSY MACLEAN
1068. mary p leahy
      Stopping the demolitions is a step toward living as good neighbors.
1069. Joan Duerst
1070. Mudassar Taswir
1071. ali mehran
      InshAllah we ll destroy this zionist base.
      black flag army
1072. 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...
1073. 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!
1074. jeanne clark
1075. Mr James J Steffens, OP
1076. Fr. Michael S. Fones
      I will continue my prayers for a peaceful resolution to this age-old conflict.
1077. Hesham Shawa
1078. Lars Lindeberg
1079. Adela Brent
      Israel must accept responsibility for its actions and do what is right. US, stop cooperating with Israel.
1080. keith sadler
1081. Claudette Schiratti
1082. pat cuviello
1083. 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.
1084. 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.
1085. Stanwood Nutter
      Stop funding the IDF that is putting my children and grandchildren at risk.
1086. marilyn mihalic
1087. Marian M Lynch