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
• Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land
• Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice
• Middle East Crisis Response
• American Libyan Freedom Alliance
• Women in Black Union Square, NYC
• Episcopal Peace Fellowship of Asheville, NC
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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. razia
    i fully endorse this petition
17. Judith Kolokoff
    Please put your action where your words are. It's time!
18. 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
19. 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."
20. Lulu Silbey
    As an American Jew who has witnessed a half-dozen house demoltiions in Palestine, I implore you to STOP THE DEMOLTIONS NOW.
21. Linda Heaney
    keep up the good work
22. 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.
23. Joy Messinger
24. Danielle Turner
25. 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.
26. Noah Link
27. Mary H Miller
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. Jonne Long
31. Terry M Allen
32. Robert Moyer
33. Private Name
34. penny harris
35. 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 !
36. Sherryl Kleinman
    The policies bring shame to Jews everywhere, and thus increase anti-Semitism. Without justice there will never be peace for Jews anywhere.
37. 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.
38. Marguerite Warner
39. Amy Wilkins
40. Sheila Sullivan
    This policy must end immediately!
41. Lauren Campbell
42. Dr. Jim Rothwell
43. Beatrice Eichten
44. R. Martin Smith
45. Matthew Ezzell
46. 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.
47. Donna Baranski-Walker
    Please continue to express U.S. dismay with Israel's policy of demolishing the homes of Palestinian families. Demolition orders are seeded throughout the West Bank -- this is no way to build trust and peace.
48. Dee Pope
49. Joyce and John Cassel
50. Carol Horwitz
    It is scandalous that we, as US taxpayers, are paying for Israeli's war crimes against the Palestinian people, including house demolitions.
51. Leo and Liz Barrington
52. 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.
53. Claudia Chaufan
54. Jane Adas
55. patricia hewett
    CAn you imagine being given 15 minutes to remove your belongings so a bulldozer could eliminate your family home?? The heartbreak of this has happened to thousands of Palestinians, and the US never breathes a word. Shame on us.
56. Barbara Heisler
57. Private Name
58. Sarah Ann Donnelly
    I have seen the senseless destruction. There is no ligitimate reason to justify these demolition. Enough!
59. Julianne H. Gustafson-Lira
    You. President Obama, were called to be courageous. Do what is right.
60. Judy Neunuebel
61. 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.
62. 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!
63. Aracy Winter
64. Em Scott
65. Bernice Youtz
    As an American voter, tax-payer, I am appalled that my government permits and funds Israel's illegal and inhuman actions.
66. Ed Bender
    The US cannot allow such abuse to continue
67. David Crump
68. 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
69. grace White
    Please let the people of Palestine live in peace and dignity
70. Zuhair Al-Atwi
    Enough is Enough
71. Private Name
72. Private Name
73. 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.
74. Cheri Black
75. Stuart Shadwell
76. Rebecca Horwitz
77. Janet L. Dykstra
78. Terry Fletcher
79. Karen Platt
    You know this is the right thing to do.
80. Sydney Levy
81. Kamal L. Wyatt
    Just Peace
82. Racheli Gai
83. Sara Norman
84. Michael Levin
85. 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?
86. Mara Rivera
87. Judith Norman
88. Lynne Kavin
89. Martha Wallner
90. Annette Herskovits
91. 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.
92. Susan Harman
93. 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.
94. Private Name
95. Private Name
96. Dave Reed
97. Bruce Ballin
98. Richard A Shook, DVM
99. Suzanne Stoddard
    Thank you very much for STICKING WITH the stand of US opposition to the Israeli settlements!
100. 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.
101. silvia tennenbaum
     enough is enough! when will this illegal and inhuman policy end?
102. Mehrene Larudee
103. Marge Sussman
104. Shimon Gottschalk
     Please be aware of the fat that AIPAC does not reresent the Jewish majority in America
105. Private Name
106. Mason Wilson
107. 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
108. Dennis Hauck
     The injustice must be stopped for there to be peace
109. Cindy Shamban
110. judith kahn munger
111. Alice Diane Kisch
     Please, for once, let the United States of America be on the right side of history ...
112. 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?
113. Bonnie L. Block
     Until Israel ends its unjust treatment of Palestinians there can be no hope for peace.
114. Tova Perlmutter
115. Sherry Ann Chapman
116. Judith Loebl
117. Burton Steck
118. Kriss Avery
119. Bruce Taub
120. Maria Alexandrino
     When I think on how the Palestinian people live under occupation, I think of camps, if not death camps, certainly concentration camps.
121. Lori Rudolph
122. 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.
123. Denise Rickles
124. David L. Mandel
125. Elyse Crystall
126. Private Name
127. Glen Hauer
     One of your Jewish constituents.
128. Bruce Gould
129. Leslie Lomas
130. Sharon de-Wit
131. Jennifer Bing-Canar
132. Jacob Nammar
133. 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.
134. Miryam Rashid
135. Esther Riley
     We need action, not just words. How about suspending U.S. aid to Israel until this practice stops?
136. Susan Severin
137. 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.
138. Mary Louise Gotthold
139. Joseph Levine
140. Nancy Hanson
141. 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.
142. 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.
143. Paola Canarutto
144. Barbara Bogard
     A Jewish voice against occupation and home demolition.
145. Benno Barg
146. Robin VanTassell
147. Yotam Amit
     Home demolitions contribute to no one's security
148. 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.
149. Private Name
150. Gabriela Segade
151. Jacqueline Muller
152. Kenneth Ring
153. 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.
154. Kit Everts
155. Rev. Linda Theophilus
156. Rev. Dennis Orsen
157. Caroline Herzenberg
158. Katherine Bayoud
     This has continued far too long. Home demolition and settlement building must be stopped immediately.
159. June Krisch
160. Roger Harris
161. 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.
162. Edith Cacciatore
163. Private Name
164. Elizabeth Ratcliffe
     Would I want MY home demolished so that a "usurper" would have a place to live?NOOOOO!
165. Roger Stoll
166. Cynthia Whitman-Bradley
167. Greg Thomas
     Unconscionable, unforgivable treatment of Palestinians.
168. 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.
169. Daniel Mahoney
     Stop the bulldozer terrorism that our tax dollars are paying for. Boycott Caterpillar.
170. 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.
171. Robert Tripp
172. Merle Bachman
173. Buff Whitman-Bradley
     I would like to see our country stand in support of international law instead of acting as accomplice to the violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Hague Convention of 1907.
174. David klafter
175. Daniel Szyld
176. Jean Tepperman
177. Private Name
178. Mike Coogan
179. Joshua Glasser
180. 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!!
181. 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?
182. Brandon West
183. Dave Lippman
184. 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.
185. Adrienne Gawlowski
186. Joann Lo
187. Private Name
     Who is in control of who? Washington or Israel?
     
     And many more than 24,000! We need to go back to 1948 when Israel evicted everyone from 531 villages and raped and massacred everyone in 31 villages. I decline to put my name on this for fear of retaliation.
188. Private Name
189. shirley Capshaw
190. Private Name
191. stefany gordon
192. Christian Haesemeyer
193. Ellen Shatter
194. Susan Schacher
195. Tony Macias
196. Nina Triffleman
197. Leslie Simoon
198. John H. Erickson
199. Jethro Eisenstein
200. Paul Quintanilla
201. 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.
202. Barbara Glassman
203. Margaret Holdsworth
     There can be no "Middle East" solution until this and other outstanding issues are resolved.
204. 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.
205. Clifford Rosenthal
206. Kermit Yoder
207. Mr and Mrs Irwin Luckman
208. Private Name
     People deserve security in their homes. Home demolitions are barbaric crimes
209. Clarissa Mansfield
210. Carolyn Eisenberg
211. Michael Reshetnik
     We cannot ignore or condone this oppression.
212. Dayne Goodwin
     Secretary, Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice,
     Salt Lake City, Utah
213. ian
214. carole Wilbourn
     Stop the demolition of Palestinian homes.
215. Christopher Lish
216. 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.
217. Martin Melkoniaqn
218. Trude Bennett
219. evelyn Haas
220. sue rouda
221. Libby Frank
222. frank mcginty
     Bulldozers won't bring peace.
223. 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.
224. Claudia Chaufan
225. Private Name
226. Mark Haas
227. Chase Foster
228. 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!!
229. Marilyn Sutton Loos
230. Private Name
     Enough destruction of innocent lives!!!!!!!
231. anise a mohsen
     America is the only powerin the world that can stop israel,if it has the will.PERIOD.
232. The Rev. Jeff Douglas
233. PAUL McNAMARA
     Criminal, heartbreaking,we have sanctioned other countries for far less than this.
234. Toni F Borge
235. Linda Holtzman
236. Bella august
     It is long past time to stop coddling Israel--use our financial leverage on this issue
237. 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?
238. paul siemering
     you need to stop all abuse of Palestinians now.
239. Betty Likis
240. Kay S Twilley
241. 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.
242. Judy Amarah
243. Albert Johns
244. Elmer Occhiuzzo
245. Diane Adkin
246. Richard Booth
247. Susan Davenport
248. Uday Jhunjhunwala
249. Soraya Saley
250. Laurie Knightly
     How low can you sink?
251. 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.
252. 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.
253. Gene Kanaan
254. Rosemary Hershberger
255. 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
256. gordon reed
257. Private Name
258. 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!
259. tony Rukab
260. Katherine M Metres
     The oppressed abroad and your supporters at home are counting on you.
261. Peter Chabarek
262. Norrie Thompson
     My country's support for Israel's theft of Palestinian land, future, and dignity is a humanitarian disgrace.
263. 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.
264. William R. Seaman
265. James Cook
     Please do not trust the Israeli government do what they think is best, or reward them for good or better behavior. We must put roadblocks in their path of creating roadblocks.
266. 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.
267. 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.
268. margaret killip
269. dora haslett
     this arrogant, illegal policy has continued far too long.
270. Edward Briody
     These home demolitions incite people to demolish buildings in the USA and kill our troops.
271. Leroy Fassett
272. Henry Clifford
273. 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.
274. John J. DeKort
275. Loren Boline
276. Private Name
277. Peter D. Durant
     End the genocide in Palestine!
278. 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
279. Rev. Gretchen Winkler
280. Naila JIrmanus
281. gloria massa
282. Angela Godfrey-Goldstein
283. 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.
284. Mary Anderson
285. Sam Salti
     Palestinians have the right to live! They are humans!!! STOP THE ISRAELI WAR CRIME MACHINE.
286. Sean Martens
287. Meriwether Falk
288. Debbie Johnson
289. rudolph meyer
     It is time to requier Israel to abide by international law
290. 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.
291. Kathryn E. McClanen
     We await some backbone from Pres Obama regarding
     Israel and their thumbing their nose at the world.
292. freddie johnson
293. John Nissen
294. Ida Nissen
295. 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.
296. Charlotte Prozan
297. 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.
298. Taylor Markey
299. 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!
300. Marilyn Thompson
301. Christine W. Abbyad
302. Edward R. Brandt, Ph.D.
     An Eisenhower Republican for two-thirds of my adult, later a Perot and then a Nader supporter.
303. 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!
304. 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
305. Samira Turk
306. Louis Angelos
307. Private Name
308. Koryn Lloyd
309. 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.
310. Ronald Zera
311. Joe Salazar
     These crimes must end now.
312. Warren Keller
313. Margaret J. Lilienthal
314. Marion I. Lipshutz
315. Gilbert Lawall
316. Ed Eadeh
317. Shawn Sidway
     The House of Representatives have already displayed their blatant bias or collective ignorance with the passage of H.R. 867. They were given their orders and talking points from AIPAC and voted accordingly. I hope that the Obama administration does not continue to backslide and capitulate to the right wing government currently in power in Israel and it's well placed lobby groups domestically. The interests of the United States and our brave men and women in uniform in the region are undermined daily as we continue to place the interest of Israel over the interests of justice and the values of the American people.
     The time has come for the U.S. government to start acting as a legitimate honest broker in this matter. Failure to do so fans the flames of the extremists and undermines the moderate elements that seek peace. The time has come to put a halt to the "tail wagging the dog"!
318. 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".
319. Lucas Koerner
     As an American Jew, Israel does not speak for me.
320. 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!
321. James Harlin
     Justice for Palestine... you know...what you espoused during the election.
322. Christopher Ho
323. 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!
324. Francisco
325. Ann Mallouk
326. Barbara Nash
327. Ahmed Sakkal
328. Robert Fiske
329. Manal Fakhoury
     Please be fair and wise and take action to stop this long over-due and paramount injustice.
330. LAURIE FOX
331. Tracy S. Feldman
332. Lorna Henkel
333. LoErna Simpson
     House demolitions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem MUST be stopped!
334. Private Name
     How many Americans would tolerate their land being stolen and their property destroyed by their next-door neighbor?
335. Renate Bob
336. 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.
337. Barbara Smith
338. melinda Beard
     Oh Israel-stop disappointing us!
339. Ann Cohen
340. barbara Engel
341. Private Name
342. Rachel Galper
343. 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.
344. Susan Sheinfeld
345. Linda Cohen
346. 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.
347. Michelle Ritter-Taylor
348. Jim Ackerman
     The demolition of a family's home is an abomination!
349. Mike Gullion
350. Jeff Warner
351. Mel Packer
     The failure of your administration to stop this inhumane policy will go down in history as your tacit approval of ethnic cleansing.
352. Tim Hopkins
     One Secular Revolutionary State! U.S. Out!
353. Yogesh Grover
     Demolition of houses of innocent people is an act of state terrorism.
354. Nancy Kricorian
355. Ford Chambliss
356. Margaret McIntyre
     True friends speak up when their friends do something wrong.
357. Devereaux Kennedy
358. Catharine White
359. Don Maclay
360. Georgia Guida
     Peace and justice now
361. Raina Hassan
362. Private Name
363. Ridgely Fuller
     I am currently in the West Bank and East Jerusalem where I have been witnessing both home demolitions and house confiscations. Latest confiscationwas that of an 81 year old woman and her family..the latest demolition I witnessed was the house of a 29 year old husband and father of 3, unemployed after 3 heart surgeries..what is the justice in this and how can we possibly keep listening to Israel claim 'security' to justify its illegal and immoral behavior.It is beyond time for the US to develop a foreign policy that reflects our values and interests and not those of Israel.
364. Marie France
365. Sami W. Abed
     Stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Only justice, equity, and balance will allow for peace.
366. Michelle Cohen
367. Laurel Sprague
368. Rudy Ramp
369. Helen Engelhardt
     If not now, when?
370. Ramkumar Sridharan
371. 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.
372. Saul Noam Zaritt
373. Lorie (Loreta) Wood
     The time is now! There can be no further delays.
374. Sharif Zakout
     Its important to open our eyes to these injustices, over 60 years, its been far too long
375. Joy Martin
376. Marian Royer
377. Rebecca Subar
378. safwat Malek
379. Private Name
380. 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.
381. 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.
382. patricia hewett
     This practice is reprehensible and just must stop.
383. Private Name
     Home demolition is ethnic cleansing and crime against humanity. Silence is complicity.
384. Rick Childs
     Time to let Israel the Holocaust no longer gives them a free pass on human rights violations!!
385. Phoebe Sheftel
386. Howard Lenow
387. Carol Marsh
388. Audrey Bomse, Esq.
     As a Jew and a civil rights attorney, I am 100% behind this campaign.
389. Marcia Heath
390. Barbara Aswad
     Withhold some of our taxpayers money that is helping to do this.
391. Ross and Gwin Jones
392. Steven Botticelli
393. Ajay Skaria
394. 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!
395. Stanwood Nutter
396. Dan Kelly
397. Harriet Malinowitz
398. PETER VIERING
399. 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.
400. Ronald Shiffman
401. 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.
402. 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.
403. Private Name
     In memory of Rachel Corey, please stop this moral outrage.
404. Private Name
405. john weber
     House demolitions in Occupied Territory are Illegal, shocking, and outrageous. Stop condoning them. Stop supporting them.
406. Michael Liebert
407. Les Canges
     If you can't hear the world begging you to stop, at least listen to your still small voice.
408. Amy Pett
     I am one of many American Jews who are opposed to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
409. 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.
410. Steve Sarvis
411. Private Name
     Demolition is an inhumane act. What if the reverse were taking place?
412. Elaine G. Schwartz, Ph.D.
413. Cheryl Mitchell-Olds
414. Nadia Sindi
     STOP your Natural Growth Right Now! You are doing nothing for Peace. Stop your slavery.
415. Jordan Kushner
416. Cheryl Sharps
417. Evan Weissman
418. 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.
419. Virginia Baron
420. Sylvia Schwarz
421. 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.
422. Joyce Guinn
423. Marian Feinberg
424. Naomi Harrison
425. Joanne Heisel
426. Donna Hicks
427. 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
428. Ellen Robinson
429. Jenny Hochstetler
430. luke charles
431. rich forer
432. Alan Arnold
     If you cannot overcome a US Congress purchased by Likud, you must still condemn, for the world to see.
433. Jeffrey (Rusty) Curling
     Settlement expansion has always come at the expense of Palestinian families. end home demolitions and evacuate settlements now.
434. Ehnaeull E. G. Gonçalves
     if they didn't stop, we have to stop them!
435. Francis Nicosia
436. Rebecca Evans
437. Roberta Mohr
     Please show that you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize by working for peace in Palestine.
438. Stefanie Brendler
439. rukhsana ghouse
440. Carolyn Corzine
     Doesn't it matter that these demolitions are happening in E. Jerusalem now!!!
441. 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!
442. William P. Aldrich
443. Andrea Whitmore
444. doris rausch
     What right has Israel to issue, or deny, building permits in the West Bank, E. Jerusalem, and Gaza??!!
445. James L. Bailey
     I too have witnessed the demolished houses in the
     West Bank. House Demolitions must be stopped.
446. Susan Landau
447. Eric Salitsky
448. Kevin Gerard Rashid
449. 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
450. Caren Levy-Van Slyke
451. Erwin K Kerr
452. Pauline Coffman
     I appreciate your stand on ending the settlement expansion. Now let us take another important step: End the home demolitions!
453. Private Name
454. David Nir
     This state of cruelty must be stopped. Unstopped, the abuser intensifies his assault on humanness and justice.
455. Ray Gordon
     End Israeli house demolitions and evictions of Palestinians so Jewish settlers can move in.
456. lynn segak
457. Janice Hart
458. Ryan Nelson
459. Marilyn Brunger
     It's time we stop supporting this inhumanity with our tax dollars that go to Israel.
460. 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!
461. Heike Schotten
462. Dennis James
     At long last is there no common decency, no ability to see this for what it is - theft and ethnic cleansing?
463. Branwen L Cook
     I visited Israel & West Bank, Jerusalem East & West, saw first hand demolitions of homes and settlements run rampant, Palestinians who lack water and Israelis who squander it. The time has come for people of conscience to stand up for right living, as the prophets of all time tell us.
464. Helen Holtz
465. 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.
466. Bernadette Garcia
     we must stand for justice for the Palestinian people
467. 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
468. Liza Farmer
     Palestinians love their land and their homes. Demolitions must stop just as settlement construction must stop.
469. Gerri Haynes
470. Wayne Pressler
471. 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.
472. Private Name
473. Joseph Clifford
474. Gordon Fellman
     Arabs can never destroy Israel. Only Jews can. Please stop their self destructiveness, which happens to dovetail with their destructiveness toward Palestinians.
475. Matthew Thomas Miller
476. David Matos
     Staopping settlements AND home demolitions is a nececessary prerequisite for peace negotiations. If Israel continues, we should freeze US taxpayer supplied aid.
477. Private Name
478. Amer Elmughrabi
     Please End it
479. nashwan hamza
480. Robert Brookover
     The Middle East will continue to be in turmoil until this issue is settled.
481. Dr. William Dienst
     Stop the hypocracy!
482. Anthony Ernst
483. Private Name
484. Noel Sanborm
485. Janet Tice
     No one should have the right or ability to destroy another person's home. It's illegal, immoral and pure intimidation.
486. Liz Aaronsohn
487. Michelle Granas
488. Ellen Oxfeld
489. Private Name
490. Gretchen F. Turner
491. Patricia Bango
492. Alice Rothchild
493. 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.
494. Private Name
495. Sulaiman Shaltoni
496. Kate Gilles
497. Elizabeth Burr
498. 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.
499. Richard Blum
500. John Lynn
501. Rita Erickson
     How can we not demand that they stop building Israeli homes on Palestinian land while Israelis continue to demolition Palestinian homes???????
502. 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.
503. David Meshoulam
     Enough is enough!
504. Joel Semakula
505. Matt Stern
506. Sam Koprak
507. Jean Entine
508. David Corcoran
     Stop the Occupation and genocide of the Palestinian People
509. Ruth S. Hertzberg
     Why does the US continue to support this brutal regime (Israeli Government)?
510. Rose Jones
511. Joyce Zonana
     There is no justification for this destruction.
512. Patrick O\'Lear
513. Sherry Gorelick
514. 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!!
515. Kyle P. Erickson
     Allowing Israel to occupy Palestinian land only strengthens terrorist recruting power.
516. Judith Deutsch
517. Private Name
518. Dr James Deutsch
     Israel can no longer hide behind a wall of rhetoric.
519. Kristin Vournas
520. MARIE FORDE
521. Nance Shatzkin
     Honor those who died in the Warsaw Ghetto. Stand for humanity. End the home demolitions.
522. Wiiliam Lutz
523. Sarah Eggleston
524. 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.
525. Yolanda Aleman
526. Alvin Eshe
     Do the correct thing!
527. 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
528. Ruth/Pat Harris/Patterson
529. Roni Hammermann
530. Marilyn Lucier
531. Adam Levine
532. elisabeth geschiere
533. Kathryn levy
534. Brent Richards
535. Private Name
     Give the innocent a chance in life
536. 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.
537. Jim Peters
538. arlene coulter
     inhumanity to man is never acceptable
539. Justine Franklin
     I totally oppose housing demolitions and Israel's inhumane treatment of the Palestinians. The US gives Isreal billion a year -- thus my tax dollars are helping to destroy lives. I cannot live with that.
540. 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!
541. 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!
542. Bo Fauth
543. Courtney Childs
544. DAVID SCHLEICHER
545. Laura Stern MD
     As a humanist and a Jew I can not support this destruction of peoples homes and lives.
546. Denis Wood
547. SHU-MEI HUANG
     Israel should stop the occupation!
548. Keith Houser
549. Marguerite Coyle
     Brutally usurping another's home is unconscionable.
550. Amal Eqeiq
551. Phyllis M Andrews
552. Ruth Crystal
553. Melinda Thompson
     Our failure to take a stance and make it happen is unforgivable! You have the power - use it!
554. Joyce
     There is no justification for the demolition of the homes of Palestinians. The US must stand firm and insist on the cessation of this destruction. There can be no peace in the Middle East unless Palestinians are able to live unmolested in their own land. There will be no peace in the Middle East until there is an independent Palestinian state.
555. 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.
556. Larry La Caille
     Human Rights for Palestinians. They are people, too.
557. William Lynch
558. Don Kuespert
559. Veda Stram
     END occupations! Americans are viewed as callous and ignorant by continuing to support brutal illegal occupations...anywhere.
560. 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
561. Bob Reynolds
     the Jews have now become the oppressors, and the Palestinians have beome the Jews Jews.
562. jane dejarnette
     i think if americans knew the true nature of the israeli demolitions in palestine, & the indignities palestinians suffer daily at the hands of israeli occupiers they would rush to stop the actions of israels government
563. 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.
564. Victor Teich
     Back to the 1967 border NOW!
565. Sam Bernstein
566. 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.
567. Suzanne Erfurth
568. Lesly McAnelly
569. Alex Heath
570. Ilse Schlaepfer
571. peggy wallace
572. inayat taj
     When are we going to wake up???????????????
573. 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.
574. 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.
575. Private Name
576. Kathy Felgran
     "As you sow, so shall you reap". Sound familiar? Clearly, Israel does not want peace.
577. 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.
578. Michael A. Lopez
     we can co-exist! We are all in the same boat together.
579. Kay Halpern
     This type of activity runs counter to Jewish values and will harm Israel in the long run.
580. Private Name
581. tom hussey
582. Lorraine Hartmann
583. Linda Novenski
584. 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.
585. Eissa
586. Robert Cunningham
587. Cinda Rubinstein
588. Richard Kidd
589. 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.
590. serena becker
591. Amir Hassanpour
592. Huwaida Arraf
593. Carla Curio
594. Anita Ross
595. Paul Freibott
596. Bingham Graves
597. Michael Phillips
598. Anne Guinan
     I realizs that you are overwhelmed with major problems, but this is also a heartbreaking situation, and completely against international law.
599. Lindsay Raspi
600. laudia Leight
601. Marissa Hildebrant
     Peace happens when we respect our homes, the place where our heart rests.
602. J. Glenn & Barbara Evans
603. Steve Schnapp
604. 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.
605. Sallye Steiner Bowyer
606. Gabriel Alkon
607. Jane Mccormick Crowley
608. Mary Heffron
609. Robert Kastner
610. 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!
611. Marilyn Hacker
612. Barbara Weeatherhead
613. Amir Obeid
     End the Illegal Israeli Occupation & Apartheid Government.
614. 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.
615. Mary Davies
616. Gene Herman
     ...with liberty and justice for all. Palestinians, as well as Israeli's.
617. Abigail Hollister
618. Santa Smires
     Enough is enough!
619. carmela ieroiannni
620. gabriella bernieri
621. Ruth Marchese
622. Charles Schille, LICSW
623. Ray Eurquhart
624. Jamie Atari
     How can humans want to demolish other humans' homes and livlihoods? I don't understand it at all.
625. Laura Peck
     A cruel and barbaric policy is indefensible.
626. ILA ENDERS
     end the occupation Stop the 3billion ISRAELI GENOCIDE FUNDING BY USA TAXPAYER DOLLARS
627. Thami Smires
     do to others as you would have them do to you
628. Shefali Kaul
629. Joseph Arrabito
630. Laura Closson
631. Private Name
     destroying Palestinian homes and land is no way to peace !
632. Walid Shumareye
633. Maren Behrend
634. anna Nilsson
     Walls bring hatred and escalates violence.
635. 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?
636. Lee Baker
     Settlements in Palestinian territories are illegal and prevent peace in the area.
637. Jamie Closson
638. Michael Clyne
639. Peter Ungar
640. Sarah Green
641. Private Name
642. 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.
643. Private Name
644. jeff kipilman
     natural growth is code for settlement expansion. freeze all settlements.
645. JACQUELINE MILLER
646. Valori George
647. Private Name
648. 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
649. M. L. Coombs
     STOP ALL AID TO THE TERRORIST STATE OF ISRAEL, NOW!!!!!!
650. Daryl Bohning
651. 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.
652. Bert Aubrey
     Free Palestine
653. 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!!!
654. Bernie Eisenberg
655. Private Name
     Please see that justice is done to the Palestinians. Abolish the settlements and stop allowing homes to be destroyed inPalestine territory!!
656. Sammy Rayyan
657. Dania Helou
658. joanne Frey
659. Julie Webb
     Please, please, please stop the demolition of Palestinian houses!
660. Joshua Hough
661. Rachel C. Fletcher
662. Private Name
     Offering prayers for peace on earth.
663. Jane Stein
664. Mares and Chuck Hirchert
     We have petitioned Congress in Feb, 2009 to save a 130 student kindergarten in Al Aqaba, West Bank, Palestine. New demolition orders on 7 homes in the village were issued Nov 24, 2009. Tragic for these children.
665. Karen Kirschling
666. Suhail Shafi
     Stop Bulldozing Palestine. Stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians off their land !
667. Private Name
668. Private Name
669. 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!
670. eileen fleming
671. Ronald Fuchs
672. Sandy Anderson
     Please work to eliminate this terrible injustice!
673. Rebecca Vilkomerson
674. KJA
675. Private Name
676. 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.
677. Private Name
678. Nancy M. Pratt
679. Emily McNeill
680. 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.
681. 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!
682. Stanley Bercovitz
683. John Gaston
     Religion without justice is hollow.
684. Himani Bannerji
685. Amal
686. Vivian L. Wood
687. Sarah Crawford-Browne
688. kevin moloney
689. 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.
690. Mark H Gaffney
691. Karen Klein
692. 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.
693. 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.
694. Sama Alshaibi
695. karen redleaf
696. Rebecca Hopskotch
     please stop demolishing Palestinian homes!
697. Roula Seikaly
698. Caitlin Robertson
699. Donn Trautman
700. Bea Kirby
     I wholeheatedly endorse this petition!
701. Barbara Hanst
     It's way past time for the US to put pressure on Israel to stop these demolitions!
702. Dorothy and Robert Osborn
     This is such an important issue; please read this message caarefully.
703. Muhammad Ismail
704. Bernadine Mellis
705. Henry Landau
     A just peace will never occur while Israel continues to provoke.
706. 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.
707. 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.
708. Elizabeth Loikow
709. Rob Wall
710. Randy Kehler
711. 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.
712. Clarence Hoop
     This is a difficult issue that will only end badly if it continues. Right now it is lose-lose.
713. jan smith
     spare the rod,spoil the child - now we know how true it is.
714. Sid Frankel
     Mr. Obama should not be picking up his Peace Prize.
715. Gilah Morse
716. Stan Current
717. Pieter Niemeyer
718. Private Name
719. 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.
720. R. Bruce King
721. Edgar A. Towne
     U.S. support of Israeli policies in East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank is as unconscionable as are those policies!
722. Carole Burnett
723. Martha Nathan MD
     It is an international crime to destroy people's homes. This is a shame on Israel.
724. Ruth Hooke
     Act now! Stop demolitions! They are inhuman!
725. Todd Lindblom
726. Hedy Epstein
727. 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.
728. Sid Shniad
     It is time for resolute action to end Israeli impunity.
729. 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
730. Samuel Jordan
     When there is peace, there will be one state.
731. Shilpa Jindia
732. Signe Myklebust
733. Jenny Oskarsson
734. Fabienne Presentey
735. Dr Adrian Fine
     America and Israel have the same degree of moral blindness towards the basic human rights of Palestinians
736. Siddiq
     End the Illegal occupations and demolitions !!!
737. Reg McQuaid
     Do not use violence in the name of religion!
738. David Van Strien
739. Louise Antony
     Please honor your Peace Prize: use your unique position to remove this obstacle to Middle East peace.
740. Bill Durland
741. Julie Guard
742. George M Likis
743. Ruth Elkin
744. Richard Caslow
745. Greg Starr
746. Andrea Lawlor
747. 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
748. Erica Hahn
     It is so important that Israel take this simple step, and so critical. The US must urge it.
749. 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.
750. Mark Kiser
     True peace for all only with justice for all.
751. Randy Martin
752. Marilyn Goodman
753. Susan E. Hauser
754. John Downing
755. DeAnne Riddle
756. Monica Stouffer
757. Private Name
758. Ursula Fischer-Smircich
759. Cedar Dvorin
760. Jette Marcher
761. 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.
762. 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.
763. Frederick M. Rosen
764. 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.
765. Carolyn Walden
     I have been there myself, including this year, so I have seen this travesty with my own eyes!
766. Peter Dupont Weiss
767. Mai Hoff Skovgaard
768. 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.
769. Thom Lufkin
770. Susan Conway
771. 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
772. Samuel L. Liman
773. 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.
774. Den Mark Wichar
     Justice For Palestine, NOW!
775. Eleanor Kinnaird
776. Sini Maury
777. Nancy Steeves
778. Una Staples
779. Pat Gracian
     Stop protecting the criminal government of Israel- guilty of the ultimate crime against humanity- genocide.
780. Mark D. Stansbery
781. Ian Vaver
782. Erik Stark
783. Rev. Irvin Nussdorfer
     The time has come to demand the actions of Israel in the destruction of homes.
784. Robert Piller
785. John E. Coleman
786. Sam Blan
787. Betsy Mayfield
788. 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.
789. Matthew Michael
790. Barbara Gerten
     I do not want my tax dollars funding these criminal and inhumane acts. Please stop the oppression of the Palestinians.
791. Peter Hudyman
792. wally martin
793. Nihaya Mizyed
794. Margaret and Ed Tegenfeldt
795. Anton Iorga
796. Shereef AbdelRahman Khafagi
797. Elie Elias
     STOP THE ILLEGAL OCUUPATION, AND STOP THE ILLEGAL DEMOLITION OF HOMES.
798. Dennis Bricker
799. raina whan
800. Elsa J. Marty
801. Antonia Mandry
802. Fátima Martínez - Paraguay
803. Private Name
804. Judy Davis
805. Rosalyn baxandall
806. 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.
807. Matthew William Miller
808. Rosemary Agonito
809. constance st jean
     ISRAEL IS COMMITING GENOCIDE, TERROR AND EVIL HARASSMENT OF THE PALESTINIANS.
810. Emily Zisette
811. margaret copi
812. Stephanie Holland
813. Delfina Pei
814. Cornelia van Thiel
     These demolitions are racist and unjust.
815. 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.
816. Ioanna Gutas
817. Janie M. Stein
818. Jeanie Hagedorn
819. 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!
820. 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.
821. Deborah S. Van Damme
     The genocide of the Palestinian people by the Jewish state must be stopped now.
822. Clarice J. McKenzie
823. Anis B. Salib
824. C.F.Williams
     You wouldn't want to have this happen to you so don't allow it to happen to anyone else.
825. Private Name
826. Private Name
827. Private Name
828. David and Polly Johnson
829. Esther Ho
830. Mark Fuller
     History need not repeat itself, let us stop this inhumane treatment now.
831. Marcia Tyriver
832. Private Name
     End Israeli occupation of Palestine NOW!!!!
833. Jo Lucas
     Now Today
834. 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!
835. jim Lucas
836. Suzanne Medgyesi-Mitschang
     Pope Paul II declared that "If you want peace, work towards justice." Justice and peace demand the home demolitions must end!
837. Lynn Travis
838. Glenna Kay Plitt
839. Caroline Best
840. barbara crandall
     there's no holy in the holyland!
841. Private Name
842. john case
843. Alan Zaslavsky
844. Private Name
     We have to call it what it is... Apartheid. The arrogance and the cruelty of the Israelis is astounding.
845. Private Name
846. Mahi
     Be free
847. Colin Smith
848. Bruce Edwards, Canada
     Please don't betray people who believe in you.
849. Amy Harlib
     Barbaric arrogance and intolerance must end and respect for human rights must begin.
850. paul almond
851. Vladymir Gómez
     Please, end it now.
852. Mark M Giese
853. Eulalia Villuendas Huguet
854. Susan T. Nicholson
855. J Lander
     I am appalled at Israel's actions. How can this be classed as searching for a peaceful settlement?
856. Ann Klein
857. Jelica Roland
858. m
859. Laurie DesJardins Ferhani
860. Juan Camacho
861. 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.
862. Susan Oehler
863. Deborah Potter
864. 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)
865. Chris Ringwalt
     Let us not be complicit by remaining silent in this continuing affront to peace and justice.
866. Patricia Walsh
     "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
     
     --Martin Luther King
867. Patrick Gesnot
     Housedemolition is a violation of human rights. Boycott products from Israel. Europe should stop diplomatic relations with Israel.
868. Private Name
869. Alan Wood
870. Private Name
871. Sharon Lo
872. PFEIL Hélène
873. Merlin Seller
874. Howard Rubinstein
875. Rowena Harry
876. Donna Schumann
877. Mary Lou Leiser Smith
878. Man Abu Taleb
879. Donna Barten
880. Jim Munroe
881. Lee Cheek
882. Michael Barten
883. Kathleen Piraino
884. Paul and Joan Waller
885. Helena
886. 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.
887. Richard Tait
     Israeli intransigence will not change without forceful pressure from the United States.It must change if there is to be durable peace.
888. Hermann Kurthen
889. Joel Stillerman
890. Daniel Sheets
891. Private Name
     I prefer my name to be included in the LA Jews for Peace membership rather than individually, not both
892. steve
893. Trude Steiro
894. Bobi
895. Shireen
     It's time you end the house demolitions! Freeze the settlements. Give justice to the Palestinians!!!
896. 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?
897. LAJ Jews for Peace
898. Ineke Way
899. Private Name
     thank you for this important work!
900. Judith Brown
     Every house demolished means at last one mother and family are forced to live in despairs.
901. Dolores Jackson
     This genocide must stop. The blood of these innocent people is on your heads USA, Israel, UK and you client warmongering states
902. Private Name
     End the second Holocaust now!
903. Private Name
904. gina awadallah
     stop the palestinian holocaust!!!!!!!
905. gary howard
906. betty mazur
907. 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.
908. Frieda Behets
909. Vernon Whitney
910. cherie Gorman
911. Edward Borchardt
912. marjorie ford
913. Michele Mattingly
914. Barbara Walton
     The demolitions have to stop. It's unconscionable they have been allowed to go on for so long.
915. Joan Huguenard
916. Myrna Charry
917. David Atwood
     Stop funding Israel.
918. Shahla Wahid
919. Jim Cullen
     Until the US congress wakes up...this will continue to go on.
920. Elizabeth Sternfield Axtell
     The settlements are really colonies.
921. Private Name
922. Suzanne Rogalin
923. Fred Schloessinger
924. Lynn Schultz
925. Gloria Rubac
926. Private Name
927. Karen Speros
928. Anne Roberts
929. 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.
930. leterrier
931. Private Name
932. Joan F. Walsh
     Please stop this barbaric practice at once. It is cruel, as well as illegal, to destroy the homes of Palestinians. Israel's abuses must stop!
933. 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
934. Kelly Epstein
935. Terry Meade
936. 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.
937. Duane Ediger
     Natural growth is not accomplished by theft.
938. Rev. John Moriarty
     (Member, Presbyterian Church/USA ISRAEL-PALESTINE MISSION NETWORK. Stop the house demolitions!
939. 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
940. Jane Jewell
     Equal rights for all.
     Shame on Israel!
941. Private Name
942. Jane Bark
943. Barbara Bogard
     Peace, freedom, and justice for all.
944. Rizk Ikhrais
     House demolition = peace demolition
945. Janet Gottler
946. Paul F Vander Linden
947. Mary Ann Frese Witt
948. Jeanie Shaterian
     House demolitions are an outrage against all men, women, and children everywhere. Stop them.
949. Geoffrey Moist
950. Nawal Tamimi
     Let us see good change for the people of Palestine-change we all can believe in!
951. vivian zelaya
952. Dorothy P. Wonder
953. Susan Brooksbank
954. Private Name
955. Tom McAfee
956. Anne Dinneen
957. youssef fakhreddine
     End home demolitions now. Build replacement homes for those the Israeli government demolished.
958. Karen Hartwell
     Member, Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights, Austin, TX
959. D. Emily Brown
     The time is long gone for two-sided discussion. House demolition in Palestine must be stopped now.
960. Mike Caggiano
961. 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.
962. 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!
963. james watts
964. Emily Wheeler
965. Farah Fakhreddine
966. Aisha J.
967. Walter Birdwell
968. Roshni Rustomji
969. Moneta S. Prince
970. Leah Johnson
971. BernadineCarpenter
     I am ashamed of my nation and our leaders wh have chosen to blantly ignore international law on this matter ....
972. Catherine Orozco
973. Mary C. jansen
974. 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.
975. 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
976. Lydia Gattanell
977. Private Name
     Please take a strong stand and avoid further lukewarm rhetoric.
978. Sharon Shohfi
979. 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.
980. omar ali
981. imran ali
982. mary izett
983. rev dr John Anderson
984. Gary Dorko
     Without justice there can be no peace.
985. Osama Malik
986. Yasser Mumtaz
987. Private Name
988. Jenny Amanda Hurwitz
     So we Jews and Palestinians can all live in peace and with love for each other.
989. linda daniels-hernandez
990. Dave Stewart, Bloomington Indiana U.S.A.
991. Suzanne Simon Hodes
992. Rev. Will McGarvey
993. Miriam Hoda
994. eileen stevens
     I support all aspects of the Palestinean struggle for justice and basic human rights.
995. Cecelia Lavan, OP
996. Sharat G. Lin
997. emine kunter
998. 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.
999. Janice Rothstein
1000. Syed Rizvi
      House demolition defies any standard of humanity and civilization. Please help stop it.
1001. Merriam Kathaleen
1002. Judy Morris, O.P.
1003. Deacon Tony Cuseo
1004. Margaret Briody
1005. Gina Fleming
1006. Margaret Kavanagh, OP
1007. Private Name
1008. barbara Werner
1009. Sr. Joel Campbell
      This is long overdue.
1010. Marguerite Chandler
1011. Roserita Weber, OP
1012. Mary Noel
1013. Patricia Lyons, OPA
1014. Mary Ann Budka
1015. Ernestine Wenz
1016. Maxine Shonk OP
1017. Mary Ruth Leandres, OP
1018. Private Name
1019. Lois McGovern, OP
1020. Janice Bachman
1021. Theresa Damicone
1022. Marilyn Pierson
1023. 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.
1024. Private Name
      Please stop the violence directed against civilians in their homes!
1025. Theresa Fox, OP
1026. Janice A. Wilson, OPA
1027. Rita Busch, OP
1028. Elaine Osborne OP
1029. Anne Keenan
1030. Robin Richard, OP
1031. Virginia A.Kroos
1032. Mary Ann Wiesemann-Mills
1033. Angeline Magro, O.P.
1034. Private Name
1035. Cornelia Bock O.P.
1036. Geraldine Milbert
1037. Sr. Maria E. Martinez
      The time for justice is now. Too much time wasted as more people die.
1038. Patricia Hogan
1039. Sr. Dorothy Trosclair OP
1040. Private Name
      please respect rights of the Palestinians.
1041. Jane Belanger, OP
1042. Juliana D\'Amato, O.P.
      I have been to Israel and Palestine. How can you desire peace while perpetrating injustice?
1043. Adele Sheffieck
1044. Sr. Alicia Alvarado, OP
      ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! STOP THIS MADNESS.
1045. Louise Hageman
1046. Patricia Chaffee, OP
      I have been to the West Bank and heard stories of home demolition. The US cannot continue to support this injustie.
1047. Rose Riley
1048. Mary Faith Geelan
1049. Suzanne Brauer,OP
1050. Pasquale Manalio
1051. David farrugia, O.P.
      This has TO STOP. Enough is enough. Stop it.!!!!
1052. 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.
1053. Rosalita Judge
1054. Paul Conner, O.P.
      Israelis, If you want peace, stop stirring up hatred and revenge.
1055. Una C. Bourgeois
1056. Carol Fuster
      This is passive terrorism on Israel's behalf and American dollars funding it.
1057. Nora Adelman
1058. Catherine McKernan
1059. Private Name
      This should not be permittd to continue
1060. mary coleman
1061. Rosalinda Martinez
1062. Christopher P. Tsombanis
      Heartless, hypocritical savages.... purveyors of APARTHEID
1063. Private Name
1064. Rosemary McLoughlin
1065. Jeanne Moore, O.P.
1066. Private Name
1067. Carol A. Beesing
      Why must those who historically been oppressed become oppressors of others? Please help break the cycle of oppression.
1068. Ann Warlick OPA
1069. 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.
1070. Giulii Zobelein
1071. Gloria Marie Jones, OP
1072. Ingtrid Clemmensen
1073. bob hanson
1074. Raj Sahai
1075. Mary Jo Fox
      I PLEAD FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO STAND UP FOR JUSTICE FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
1076. Margery Race
1077. 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!
1078. Marie Condon
1079. Rosaire Lucassen
1080. mary alice neylon
1081. Private Name
1082. Fran Miles
      The present actions are inhumane, unjust,beneath human dignity.
1083. Marie Lucek
1084. Bernadine Baltrinic
1085. Sister Rose Mary Stein OP
1086. Christine Krause
1087. Helena M. Sause, OP
1088. Janette Wicker
1089. catherine houtakker
      Do onto others as you would want them to do to you.
1090. Lani Simmons Bright
1091. 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.
1092. Private Name
1093. KC Young
1094. Marie Seckar
      Working for justice in these matters is vital.
1095. Mary Rhatigan
1096. Mariel Bronson
1097. Mary T Schneider
1098. Private Name
1099. 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.
1100. 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!
1101. Mary Pat Beatty
1102. Rosemary Loomis, OP
1103. Gretchen Sills, OP
1104. Marlene Fogarty
1105. Private Name
1106. Carmen Rostar, O.P.
1107. Jo Anne Leo,O.P.
1108. Private Name
      As an American citize, I urge justice and respect for our brothers and siters. President Obama,please do the same. Thank you.
1109. Kathy Komarek
1110. Private Name
1111. 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.
1112. Rev. Ann Marie Coleman
1113. Marjorie Vangsness
      I have been praying so long for the Palestian cause.
1114. Mary T Vaccaro
1115. Mary L. Janowiak OP
      Putting myself in the place of the Palestinian people lends urgency to this request.
1116. Megan McElroy, OP
1117. Private Name
1118. Virginia Geniesse
1119. 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.
1120. Mary Ellen Robertson
1121. 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.
1122. Susanne Brodeur
1123. Rose Bowen
      This injustice has gone on too long.
1124. Private Name
1125. Private Name
1126. Anthony R.
1127. Private Name
1128. Michael Bass
1129. BETSY MACLEAN
1130. mary p leahy
      Stopping the demolitions is a step toward living as good neighbors.
1131. Joan Duerst
1132. Mudassar Taswir
1133. ali mehran
1134. 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...
1135. 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!
1136. jeanne clark
1137. Mr James J Steffens, OP
1138. Fr. Michael S. Fones
      I will continue my prayers for a peaceful resolution to this age-old conflict.
1139. Hesham Shawa
1140. Lars Lindeberg
1141. Adela Brent
      Israel must accept responsibility for its actions and do what is right. US, stop cooperating with Israel.
1142. keith sadler
1143. Claudette Schiratti
1144. pat cuviello
1145. 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.
1146. 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.
1147. Stanwood Nutter
      Stop funding the IDF that is putting my children and grandchildren at risk.
1148. marilyn mihalic
1149. Marian M Lynch
1150. kevin OBrien
      The U.S. can apply economic pressure on Israel in order to implement these actions. I as a taxpayer do not wish to fund Israel's continued agression on the Palistinian people.
1151. Ted Bouzious
      Mr. President, Secrretary Clinton, We enable Israel with our undebated annual funding to the tune of 7 million dollars per day! More than any other country. While virtually no funding for Palistianians is considered. Congress has never had an open debate on this annual funding for fear of Israeli reprisals. Israel is nothing more than a bully in the region. Please have the courage to stand up and take action against this unlawful expansion. After all, the U.S. taxpayers hold the pursestrings.
1152. Frank Stangel
1153. Marjorie Ford
1154. Mohamed Afiq Rahmat
      do something NOW!!
1155. Private Name
1156. Dalia Elsouhag
      Stop using my tax money to demolish Palestinian homes. The US needs to stop sending all this money to Israel.
1157. Ellen Davidson
1158. tarak kauff
1159. Judith Mahoney Pasternak
1160. Irene Phillipson
      Power concedes nothing without demand.
1161. Yasmeen Murtaja
1162. J.VanDatta
      All people of conscience must unite to end aggression and profiteering from human conflict and other forms of exploitation and destruction.
1163. Private Name
      I have only one question for those who turn their backs on this injustice-- what if it was your family?
1164. Elizabeth Beeching/John Beeching
      The time has come to re-introduce the words "racist and aggressor" with respect to Israel
1165. Ruth G. Hart
1166. Margaret Pan
      Sadly, it's more than about demolition. The world is in turmoil largely because of the perceived injustice visited upon the Palestinians. How many more decades must modern society and the innocent suffer vendettas by one group or another? Sadly, Thomas Friedman is right, it's become a hobby for Israel. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28friedman.html
1167. Harlie J Hoke
      The Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes is worse than aparthied. Is is criminal.
1168. Zainub Rahman
1169. Mary Anderson Dearing
1170. nancy murphy
1171. Dante R. Peña
      How would Israeli house demolitions feel to Israeli Jews? How would the USA respond?
1172. Krista and Alan Binnie
1173. Anne Gooden
1174. Mallori Allen
1175. Private Name
1176. Darlene Davis
1177. Petra Haisam
1178. David B. Miller
1179. Private Name
1180. Camilla Cofer Jones
      Having seen the destruction of homes and also new settlements, I realize that no peace can come until this stops.
1181. Denise Lytle
1182. Judith Emerson
      The Israelis have no business demolishing Palestinian homes and businesses. They have illegally stolen land, cut down trees, taken over businesses, destroying Palestines families and economy and it's high time they were forced to stop and pay serious retribution. The Israelis have become bullys and must be forced to alter their approach to life on this Earth. The Palestinians deserve lives worth living in the land of their ancestors.
1183. jane law
1184. Private Name
1185. Lurline Sintros
      The U.S. Congress should stop the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars given to Israel annually (and all of the in between annually "gifts"), reclaim all U.S. war equipment and then demand that the Israelis move off of all Palestinian lands.
1186. Ronald Douglas Kennedy
      The Gandhi Movement may be crushed to the final juices of innocent blood. in the zionest squatters unrelenting push to steal all of palestine.
      
      The real question is win in the dark of the night the first CBR advanced weapon goes off with out "Collateral Damages" as all Palestinian's Christian's and Muslim's have long been deported scattered or out right killed.
      
      Will anyone ask why the zionist now have killed there own?
      
      Or recall there original Book of Law's. " He who lives by the sword will parish by the sword"
      
      Ronald Douglas Kennedy
1187. Sia Argue
1188. Jaclin Sullivan
      I feel that it is high time the powers that be stepped in and put a stop to this absolutely dispicable persecution of the Palestinian Peoples. Thank You.
1189. Robert Klein
      Enough is enough. Stop signing those foreign aid cheks until the israeli gov. relents.
1190. Mary Swan
1191. yara abbas
1192. Omar El-Kayal
1193. Kat Jerman
      Enough is enough! Without justice, there can be no peace...
1194. Jessica Sarriot
      There is no excuse for home demolitions. None.
1195. marek wlodarczyk
1196. A. Sinan
1197. Kit Mackintosh
1198. Scott Merilatt
1199. Friends of Sabeel in Orange County, CA
      We stand in solidarity with other groups listed here in opposition to this illegal and immoral crime against Palestinian humanity.
1200. Vicki Tamoush
1201. Stanley Yon
1202. Shaun Brown
1203. John Dickerson
      A man's house may not be his castle, but that's hardly a reason to demolish it!
1204. Rosli Omar
1205. Eyes of Palestine
      Zionism has killed peace, annoyed neighbors, destroyed homes, threw white phosporus at hotels...
1206. Sharon Lawson
1207. Suzanne Oelke
      For Israel to be secure, it must end its genocidal tactics against Palestinians. What self respecting people would not fight back?
1208. Alison Francis
1209. Will Stanton
      I strongly object to my tax money supporting Israel' s continued violations of human rights and flouting of international law. Ending this support is a National Security Imperative for our country.
1210. Daniel Epstein
1211. Katharine Burns
1212. Rob Gehrke
1213. Connie Lane
      Peace and Justice go hand in hand!
1214. Private Name
1215. Susie Kneedler
1216. Janet Armitage
1217. Richard Fralin
      What gives Israel the right to destroy Palestinian homes? Maybe they should start with Netenyahu's.
1218. Robert Harvey
1219. S. Jahangeer
1220. Private Name
      The Israeli military also damaged or destroyed 20,000 homes in the Gaza Strip during its 22-day assault & massacres(Dec'08-Jan'09)in Gaza. The war-crimes siege & economic blockade of Gaza must be lifted and ended by our govt. Many Palestinians have also been killed inside their homes while their houses are being demolished.
1221. Dr. Skander Hannachi
1222. Tony Beckman
      The United States makes a fool of itself by unwaveringly supporting Israel in anything it does - be it moral or immoral. Example: NOT condemning Israel for its inhumane destruction of Palestinian homes.
1223. Steve Ewoldt
1224. linda thomas
      IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR THE US GOV. TO RECOGNIZE THAT THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO THE ARAB/ISRAELI CONFLICT
1225. Mekhloufi
      President Obama, let the world know that "you can" say stop to these crimes.
1226. Arun Kapil
1227. Diego Siragusa
      Go on: the truth is revolutionary
1228. ATTIETALLAH Mariem
1229. Brian Stouffer
      All aid to Israel should be suspended until demolitions are ended.
1230. Enrique Ramirez
1231. Adam Flude
      Due to ZERO progress in dismantling the evil Israeli Apartheid, many people are now assuming you have no intention whatsoever of seeking justice for the brutally oppressed Palestinians - will you maintain the status quo or prove them WRONG?
1232. Bashar Hamad
      FREE PALESTINE! End the Illegal Occupation.
1233. Nihaya Hamad
      The US has shut it's eyes to Israel's injustices to the Palestinians. It is time we all stand up and let our voices be heard. I am ashamed that my tax dollars are spent on demolitions, racism and genocide.
1234. Private Name
1235. Sarah Moore
1236. Hugh Jordan
1237. Marcia Maguire
1238. Patricia Colson Baxter
      for every dwelling built for Israelis on occupied territory, we should build one for Palestians
1239. Jaimie
1240. Private Name
      Please stoop the land theft from the indigenous people, This is LONG past tragic! Try to get your political heads out of the sand.
1241. Linda Martinez
1242. David Schach
1243. Esther B. Wolf
1244. Donna Walter
1245. Private Name
1246. Bill Buckel
      I agree with the petition. (From Columbus Ohio)
1247. Donald S. Parry
1248. Terence Macartney-Filgate
1249. Marie Sacks
1250. Rick Potthoff
      Human rights for all.
1251. bob
      longlive palestine and jews, and down with natzi zionisim
1252. Abdul-Nasser J G Baston
      No justice no peace.
1253. Grete Soleng
1254. houria sebiat
1255. Jaime Gonzalez
1256. Mark Pickard
1257. Frances Gilmartin
1258. Kathleen Matsushima
1259. Abdul M. Ismail
1260. Richard Ross
      Stop all US money to Right Wing Israel. They do not need it, they obviously do not appreciate it. And we need it here !
      Call Congress today!
1261. janet Lubin
      the palestinians are suffering for the holocaust
1262. Robert Dobbs
      Israel must become a nation that respects the rule of law and treat all of its citizens with respect!
1263. Don Maynard
      I am saddened and disheartened to see that Israel has killed dozens of people on this memorial day. These ships were in international waters and carrying humanitarian supplies as well as Palestinian supporters. I have often thought that I myself could do more by showing my support for the Palestinian cause by going to Israel. This madness is United States responsibility as we have consistently funded the Israeli effort. This is nothing more than state sponsored terrorism and this must be stopped. I am ashamed and appalled that my tax dollars are funding this insanity. Please stop funding Israel in the genocide of the Palestinians.
      I am ashamed to be an American; stop this madness now!
1264. Julia Blayse
1265. Karimi Mehdi
1266. Mashal Yusufzai
      "injustice somewhere threatens justice everywhere"
      -Dr. MLK Jr.
1267. Kalevi Aho
      Down Zionist terror!
1268. Zuher Dhalla
      When will we stop the terrorism against the Pelestinians.
1269. rita camara
      Any other place in the world this would be considered as a crime.
1270. ahmed shora
1271. eric mcclurg
1272. Private Name
1273. Brady Langw
1274. Amal
      The world MUST know what Israel is doing is ILLEGAL, INHUMANE, AND CRUEL! We are witnessing ethnic cleansing at its best, and we must not stand by and watch in silence. As an American, Arab, and a Muslim, I'm ashamed to live in a country that supports the TERRORIST state of "Israel." End the OCCUPATION...end the MURDER...end the SILENCE...NOW!!
1275. Samia Mansour
      Free Palestine!
1276. Samia Mansour
      Free Palestine!
1277. Dorothy Zwayyed
      We must act on the fact that Israel is an Apartheid Country
1278. Oscar J. Decker
      Obama, Clinton, Mitchell, et al, We all know you represent & work for israel. I formally request that you begin to work for AMERICA and the oppressed people around the world;especially those in Middle East(Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan).
1279. Amy Wilson
1280. Barryck R
1281. Michael Langford
1282. Betsy Trowell
1283. Sean Bonilla Boston
      Palestine is for Palestinians
1284. matthew hamilton
      UN sanctions and boycotts should be placed against the murderous Isarael.
1285. Daleen K. Elshaer
1286. Nora Basha
1287. kaiser minhas
1288. Naaila Hassan
1289. Tayyaba Ahmad
      Remember the brave American Rachel Corrie.
1290. Laila Mossa-Basha
1291. Cengiz
1292. Sarah Levy
1293. Ric Stacey
1294. liz harrow
      economic justice is the only longterm solution
1295. BERNADINE W. CARTER
      Has anyone actually seen a map of 'Palestine" recently? The Palestinian lands are shrinking and shrinking at an alarming rate over there....puts me in mind of what we (US) did to the Amerindians back in the 15, 16, 17, 18 and 1900's.
1296. Chita Indah Hayati
      Now we can see clearly, who is the David and the Goliath. My prayer for all Palestinians.
1297. Private Name
1298. Marianne Torres
      Remember 1943, when the West knew what the trains were being used for, yet refused to bomb the rail lines? Are we there yet?
1299. C Gad
1300. Muna
1301. dina saleh
1302. Eleanor OBrien
      This has to stop! We must not allow this to continue!!!
1303. Amanda Moudarrir
1304. Jonathan Jordan
      "two-state" = apartheid
      free palastine
1305. Mohammad Salama
      The apartheid wall must be taken down. It cuts the village my family is from in half!!
1306. Alma Kubat
      Israeli terror must be stopped for the sake of the innocent Palestinian people...
1307. hassen ferris
      when are we ever going to get a U.S. president and govt that cant be bought by the zionist lobby?
1308. Private Name
1309. Mueed A Mohammed
1310. Nicholas Palmer
      The time to act is now!
1311. paulmanning
1312. Ali
1313. Jade Jordan
      equality and security are the rights of all.
1314. flora meyer
1315. anna weiss
      There is no road to peace, PEACE IS THE WAY.
1316. Dr Fatma Reda MD PhD
1317. Private Name
1318. Dori Derdikman
1319. Vafa B. Riahy
1320. Ken McMurtrie
      Cannot understand the injustices being actioned against the Palestinians. Absolutely and undeniably Israel has invaded and occupied their territory and the Palestinians are in the right in defending themselves. USA, your continued policy of causing and supporting havoc and aggression throughout the world is unappreciated by all who are able to sleep with a clear conscience.
1321. catherine myles
      End the siege of Gaza now, End the Occupation, end the misery now !!
1322. Private Name
1323. Private Name
1324. Carlos Valdes
      Demolishing of Homes is a war crime. Not only does it have to stop but the perpetrators should be prosecuted.
1325. majed abu ajamia
      "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" M.L.K
1326. Chris Ibach
1327. Mark O\'Brien
      Nations should be built on principles of justice, not bigotry. Continued unconditional support for Israel makes the US complicit in crimes against humanity.
1328. lina
1329. Marcella Iqbal
      Stop the injustice
1330. Victor Elkins
1331. intan
1332. Desiree Chamberlain
1333. Private Name
1334. janet heatwole
1335. Private Name
1336. Meibol Matar
1337. Linda Knadler
1338. Gerardo J Masilotti
1339. Sherrie Sierzega
1340. Joshua B Downing
      Enough.
1341. Paul Afek
1342. Moana Lee
      I have heard many Rabbis call for the end of the unjust treatment of Palestinians by Israelis. I have gone to Temple during Rosh Hashanna and heard Rabbis call for forgiveness and peace. Why is the majority or political leaders of Israel not heeding the call from God? Is it that they forgot the love that He has for them or do they no longer believe in Him?
1343. Bassem Rustom
      How can anyone in their right mind still defend Israel's unjust and racist policies? We MUST stop all US aid to Israel until they bring the wall down, stop their indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians, and show real intentions towards a viable peace with their willing neighbors.
1344. Yusuf El-Irlandi
1345. June Pinkin
      Has Israel collectively lost it's humanity?
      
      What about the Golden Rule?
1346. Frank T.
      As Helen Thomas' stated few days back urging Israel to get "out of Palestine,"
      
      Respect the world nations , respect the UN , respect human rights .
1347. Dr. Gerald D. McKnight
      The lawlessness of this current Israeli government threatens any hope of peace in the region for the immediate future.My abiding fear is that we will not survive this year without a nuclear event in this part of the world.
1348. Helen Tirben
      We are all one and as soon as this is realized by all people we will stop the oppression and killing of those who are different. My Prayer is for Love.
1349. Miroku Nemeth
      If there is to be peace, there must be justice. Stop destroying the homes of innocent people trying to live and raise children on the land of their fathers and mothers. Mercy must prevail.
1350. JEFFREY WOODRUFF
      FREE PALESTINE!!!!!!
1351. Edwina Vogan
1352. Aaron Blackburn
1353. Amira Khan
      "Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine."~ Helen Thomas. Ameen!
1354. Tarik Khan
      why stand on a silent platform when injustice is right before your very own eyes.
1355. Sumeja
1356. Private Name
      It is an unexcusable shame that the United States is favoring Israel with almost FIVE (5)BILLION DOLLARS of AID. That money is used for terrorist attacks against defenseless population in Palestine and should instead be spent in our own country. It is time to stop this horrorful policy!
1357. Pamela J. Francis
      House demolitions are illegal and unethical!!! Stop them NOW!!!
1358. DAOUDA DIOUF
1359. Dilberhan Shermat
1360. Morton Nadler
      The Constitution specifies
      Article 1, Section 8, “The Congress shall have Power…(10) “To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;”
      Start a campaign toi get Congress to exercise its constitutional power.
1361. Katherine Simpson
      Thank you to everyone who signs this petition.
1362. Anthony Joseph Geha Yuja
      State terrorism and piracy on the high seas, criminal apartheid policies and abuses against Palestinians, house demolitions and relentless land theft! When will the so called civilized world say to Israel enough is enough?! Washington's complicity in all this is nauseating!
1363. Megat S. Merican
1364. Private Name
1365. Andrew Gray
      Beloved people of Gaza
      
      Treasured people of Palestine
      Teachers of courage and dignity
      Archetype of humanity
      
      Allow me to kneel down
      And wash your feet with my tears
      Kiss your blessed hands
      And sprinkle your beautiful faces with musk and roses
      
      While we sat pondering like fools
      Utterly helpless
      Talking much and doing less
      Going round and round in circles
      Thinking how to help
      What to offer you to relief some of your pain
      
      As usual
      Full of surprises, you come out to our rescue, to soothe our agony
      You present us with the most precious gifts
      Lessons in bravery
      Steadfastness, patience, perseverance, defiance, resilience
      Optimism against all odds
      Creativity in the face of utter oblivion
      You’ve demonstrated that you are the free ones … we are the captives
      You chose resistance over subjugation
      You decided not to be enslaved
      Not even to superpowers
      
      Would we ever learn from you?
1366. Private Name
      Down With Opressors!
1367. Endra
      STOP the holocaust in GAZA!!!
1368. Yudhie Hendrawan
1369. Private Name
1370. Mark G Grzegorzewski
1371. Jordi Carreras
1372. A. Karriem Khan
1373. Joe McGee
      Two wrongs do not make a right!! where are the jewish traits of fairness and equality with their dealings with the Palestinian people?!
1374. Michael Perez
      Settlements are illegal and immoral.
1375. Brian Steward
      Mr President, listen to the cries of these brutalised people, they cry for justice and equality in the same way as MLK did in 1963
1376. vaggelis athanasoulias
1377. benoist
1378. Allen Larson
1379. Nor Ain
1380. Private Name
1381. Afifee Kayaleh
      I am signing the petition, but I dont think Israel is listening, they think themselves immuned from all sanctions, since America is with them all the way . The world is deaf and bling when it concerns Israel.
1382. Hedy Muysson
1383. Private Name
      Please, show some backbone and courage and stop caving in to the Israel lobby!
1384. Niall Pringle
1385. Dan Hafeman
      Our constitution says "liberty and justice for ALL." Palestinians are part of the all. Our foreign policy is usually built on this principle but when it comes to Israel, it is about protecting Israeli hardliners more than human rights.
1386. Nanette Fleury
      I ask the U.S. to please stop the blind support of Israel and its tyranny. The oppression of the Palestinians is a crime against humanity.
1387. Safiyyah Parshall
      This is a gross violation of human rights.
1388. Jose Castillo
      How much longer can the US support these Human Rights violations ?
1389. Congreso Autónomo Cuicateco
      We wish your heart will be touch by the suffering palestian people cry for justice and your hand will be strog to make a correct decision.
      Gob bless palestinian people
1390. Jane Killgore
1391. edgar zarifeh
1392. Marta Pisco
1393. ariel shidlo
1394. Fakhrul Ferdous
      I remember Rachael Corrie who was murdered by the Israeli military force while protesting demolishing action against the Palestinians.I am signing this petition in her memory and all the Palestinians live there under threat, fear and insecurity.There shall not prevail peace unless the illegal settlements are dis -mental.The 'wall'should be demolished NOW,Bulldozer won't bring peace.Stop US aid and support to Israel.
1395. Rabbi Brant Rosen
1396. Alan Moore
1397. John J. Houston
      I am utterly disgusted that my tax dollars are used, directly or indirectly, to finance these misdeeds--the destruction of people's homes, the killing of children in Lebanon, and attacks on civilians with white phosphorus (to name a few). I am also disgusted with our politicians for selling their souls to the lobbies that support all this as exercise of "Israel's right to defend itself." Talk about "rogue states"--rogue state No. 1 is Israel (which, by the way, has never actually met the definition of a "state," which is a country with defined, stable, internationally recognized boundaries and a capital). If we don't awaken from our stupor of indifference and cast off the delusory view of the world we are fed here in the U.S., we will bring ourselves to ruin.
1398. jslivacich
1399. Marty Piotruszewicz Rajandran
1400. Libbe Madsen
1401. Hazar Shadid
      God blessed you with the power to make a difference. Please use it while you can.
1402. Susan Wood
1403. Helen DeRocco
1404. El Ajmi
      God Bless Palestine.
1405. David R. Evans
      Geneva Convention IV forbids ethnic cleansing and colonizing. Amnesty international and other human rights groups as well as the International Court of Justice have condemned Israel's illegal activities. General Petraeus and others, including General George Marshall have recognized that Israel's continuing atrocities are putting U.S. troops and U.S. citizens in harms way. But destabalization is purposeful, isn't it!?
1406. Hal Smith
      About half of Palestinians are Orthodox Christians, which is the native church in the Holy Land. It is the early church that survives in the Holy Land today!
      Thank you for signing to help the Christians of the Holy Land. God Bless.
      A forum thread to discuss the petition is at:
      http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,28376.0.html
1407. Christopher Thomas
      Simply, ''Enough is enough!'' How does
      home demolition preserve peace and security?
1408. Syaza
1409. Janice Chadwick
      It is time for Israel to be held accountable for her actions. What is being done to the Palestinian people is inhuman, and it is time that the US holds them accountable and allows the international community to hold them accountable.
1410. William L. Rogers
      The heinous Israeli blockade of Gaza and all of its brutality must end! Palestinians must have their own independent homeland NOW!
1411. Andrew Cutler
      I also, fully endorse this Petition!
1412. Mitu Pandya
1413. Mohamed Akram
      Every Human has the Right to live a Peaceful and a Safe life in their own houses,and Israels Demolition of the houses of innocent Palestinian's in order to expand Israeli settlements is a grave Human Rights violation .This injustice must stop.
1414. Barbara H
      No justice, no peace.
1415. Ellen E Barfield
      Stop already!
1416. Huma Ahmad
      Words must be supported by Actions!!
1417. Aiman Al-Rawahi
      "Many hands make light work." Palestin Freedom.
1418. Private Name
      Please reduce the amount of Aid to Israel so we can gain back control of her..
1419. Ramon E. Duarte
1420. Zachariya Kedkad
1421. Michael R. DeLaTorre
      Maybe we need some international zones run by the UN and move their HQ to Jerusalem as a NEW international city. We have the threat of Muslim intollerance and Jewish demand for "Ancient lands" Why dont they just buy the Arabs out with the money the US sends them. Germany bought the Soviets out.
1422. Ruth Skolnik
      Remember the stranger.
1423. Yousef Lafi
      Enough with the occupation and the killings of innocent civilians!
1424. Catherine Garrigus
1425. Private Name
1426. Carlota Arias
1427. Elizabeth Barlow
      Home demolition means family demolition, as families are not allowed to rebuild, and cannot find a large enough accommodation anywhere. Children are often parceled out to families that don't cherish them as do their parents. It is a cruel situation, which our government should not support!
1428. Salman Siddiqi
      This expansipon MUST STOP!
1429. Francine Less
1430. Patsy Lowe
      End the demolitions or the U.S. should end the ANNUAL 3 BILLION DOLLAR GIFT TO ISRAEL
1431. Daniele Armaleo
1432. Tema Okun
1433. Shawn Monahan
1434. Ara Gregorian
      Israelis must demand that their government join the civilized world.
1435. Judith B. Solomon
1436. Donald Yankee
      Israel is way out of line.
1437. mohamed eleuche
      As an American voter, tax-payer, I am disappointed and furious that my government permits and funds Israel's illegal
1438. Private Name
1439. Ross and Gwin Jones
1440. Jack Cleary
      Please end the madness NOW! We are paying for our blind support of this Apartheid government with American lives, TRILLIONS of dollars spent fighting wars on behalf of Israel, and loss of prestige on the world stage.
1441. Private Name
1442. DAVID NEUNUEBEL
      ALL ISRAELI SETTLEMENT GROWTH OF ALL KINDS MUST STOP. THE'RE ALL ILLEGAL, WHY ADD TO THEM?
1443. laurice boulos
      enough is enough!
1444. Nichelle Jetté
      STOP ISRAELI TERRORISM! OR STOP TAKING MY US TAX DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!
1445. Alex Webb
      Stop all housing demolitions , the sooner the better!
1446. norma dosky
      no peoples are closer to jews than arabs!! together than can create a middle east economic union that will bring about their salvation and provide prosperity for generations---or they can destroy any chances for a better life.
1447. Justannae Kirby
1448. Fredrik S. Heffermehl
1449. Jack Cleary
      This insanity must stop! How many 9/11 attacks must we endure for our blind support of this Apartheid government?
1450. Richard E. Stanley
      How many roads must a nation walk down.....?
1451. John Pierce
      Don't just claim you want peace, prove you want peace.
1452. Haya
1453. Jennifer Humiston
1454. Nadia Bettendorf
1455. Elsie Gauley Vega
      Jews, in taking over this geographic area, did not take over an un-
      occupied land!!! Be honest, be fair, be just!!!! God created all of us.
1456. Pernille Andersen
1457. Brian Daizen Victoria
      There is an old and wise adage that says, "What goes around, comes around." As a Buddhist I see this as an alternate expression of karma and karmic retribution. Sow love, and love abounds,
      sow hatred, and hatred abounds. Who will break this chain, freeing both themselves and others?
1458. Keith Custis
1459. tonio siracusa
      Jews according to reform,were then a "chosen people"only in the sense of being messengers of God's word but in no way did they constitute a nation.A world in which there is no room for apartheid is really a world in which there should be no room for zionism.when the central task of a state is to import persons of select religious/ethinic group- and to develop the country for their benefit alone, it is crucially important to be officially recognized as a BONA FIDE member of that group.Anti-Zionism and opposition to a zionist state has been -and is a legitamate position in Judaism
1460. Elizabeth Burr
1461. Dory LIghtfoot
      The settlements are terribly hard for Palestinians, but long-term they are not good for Israel either, because of the anger and desperation they generate.
1462. Charles Withuhn
      peace=justice
1463. Private Name
1464. Lyell Thompson
1465. MARY WOOD
1466. john hines
1467. ScottDeutsch
      Can we bulldoze YOUR house so You know what it's like???
1468. Mike Mikulski
      We are watching the real holocaust unfold.
1469. farouq r shafie
1470. Abid Ali
      "Carol Horwitz - It is scandalous that we, as US taxpayers, are paying for Israeli's war crimes against the Palestinian people, including house demolitions."
1471. Private Name
1472. James Murray
1473. Patricia Ann Abraham
      ENOUGH, dear God, ENOUGH
1474. Zeshaun Ahmad
1475. Christiane Schomblond
      enough is enough
1476. Emin Yasaroglu
1477. Jessica
      how can those in power sleep at night aware of the atrocities that are occurring?
1478. Sarah Nelson
1479. David Ehrens
1480. anatolio sanlucas
      Press Israel to make. Sure. They want peace
1481. george salem
      The US is capable to force Israel to sign a peace with the Palestinians and stop their crimes against humanity, but its will is hijacked by self-interests, elections, and blackmail.
1482. John Joerg
      I see what Israel is doing, and I'm horrified. I'm coming face to face with the unspeakable. What are the Zionists not capable of? "With a gaze as pitiless as the sun." Poor Israel, she has lost her way.
1483. Maureen Foy
1484. Martha Cook
1485. Private Name
1486. Linda Jansen
1487. Kenneth Boddy
      ENOUGH!!
1488. Private Name
      As a supporter of Israel, news of the disproportionate percentages of permits being issued for housing construction strikes me remorsefully. Zion emcompasses humanity. Would it be too much to ask for Israelis and Palestinians to treat each other as their own? I hope not.
1489. Firas Abuzaid
1490. Christopher Sutton
      Please grow a set and do what is right NOT what is politicaly correct
1491. Jan Garrett