[Jewish] Join me in signing the Call to Bring the Settlers Home to Israel

[jjg99 at hampshire.edu]

THE PEACE PROCESS COULD BE CONTINGENT ON AN INITIATIVE SUCH AS THIS!
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO YOU KNOW WOULD SUPPORT THIS!

Dear friend, 

I hope you’ll join me in signing the Call to Bring the Settlers Home to 
Israel found at http://bringthemhome.btvshalom.org/. The Call is the 
creation of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for Justice and 
Peace, a national group of Jewish Americans committed to ending the 
violence between Israelis and Palestinians. It is the centerpiece of a 
campaign to tackle one of the toughest obstacles to Middle East peace: the 
presence of over 200,000 Israeli settlers living throughout the West Bank 
and the Gaza Strip. 

In its Call to Bring the Settlers Home to Israel, Brit Tzedek is 
introducing a nationwide campaign in Jewish communities to: 

* Urge the United States government to provide generous foreign assistance 
and solicit contributions from the European Union, other major industrial 
democracies and the United Nations for this massive relocation effort; 

* Call on the United States to pressure Israel to reverse its longstanding 
financial inducements to Israeli settlers and to redirect those funds to 
assist settlers who are willing to return to Israel proper. 

The year-long signature campaign, which Brit Tzedek is launching to 
coincide with Israel’s Independence Day, is just getting underway, but 
prominent signers already include: Ed Asner, Theodore Bikel, Gloria 
Steinem, Rabbi David A. Teutsch, Tony Kushner, Judith Plaskow, Rabbi Arthur 
Hertzberg, Grace Paley, Susannah Heschel, Adam Hochschild, Letty Cottin 
Pogrebin, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Jessica Benjamin, Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, 
Ariel Dorfman, Marge Piercy, Katha Pollitt, Michael Walzer, Rabbi Ellen 
Lippman and Art Spiegelman. 

Signing the Call will only take a minute of your time, and will add your 
voice to thousands of other American Jews who want the U.S. Government to 
embrace this important initiative for peace. You can sign the Call and read 
its full text at http://bringthemhome.btvshalom.org/ 

Thank you.