CPTnet
September 16, 1998
HEBRON URGENT ACTION: CALL ON CONGRESS TO DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE END TO
PALESTINIAN HOME DEMOLITIONS

On September 16, the Atta and Rodeina Jaber family had their home destroyed
for the second time in 27 days. Atta, Rodeina and their three children under
the age of five now have no protection against the coming winter rains.

In the last three weeks, CPT has asked its supporters to write to Israeli and
American officials to protest the demolition of the Atta Jaber house on August
19 and the bulldozing of his father's fruit and olive orchards on September 5.

We believe that more drastic methods are called for now. Hundreds of families
living in the Beqa'a valley will lose their homes, land and livelihoods to
Israeli settlement expansion if some action is not taken to prevent it.

As a beginning to these interventions, we are asking you to visit your
congress people's offices with pictures of the Jaber family and ask that they
register their disapproval of the Israeli government's home demolition policy.
It is especially important for people to visit their senators' offices, since
senators have more direct power in American foreign policy decisions than
representatives do.

Digital pictures of the Jaber family and of their demolished house are
available on the CPT website www.cpt.org. CPT can also provide photos
via e-mail attachments or regular mail. A church bulletin insert will also be
available at the web site, by fax or by regular mail. Contact CPT's Chicago
office (see footer) or Rich Meyer at cptcsd [at] npcc [dot] net.

We ask you to continue to blizzard the Israeli officials at the fax numbers
and e-mail addresses listed below, demanding that the creeping annexation of
the Beqa'a valley, and the land confiscation and home demolitions this
annexation entails, be stopped immediately.

Citizens of the United States should continue to demand that President Clinton
and Madeleine Albright exert the pressure necessary to stop these demolitions
and land confiscations.

Canadian citizens should express their concerns by writing to Ambassador
Gordon Giffin, 100 Wellington St, American Embassy, Ottawa ON K1P 5T1 tel:
613-238-5335 fax 613-234-2094

Faxes will make bigger impression than e-mail.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS

US Government Officials:

President, Bill Clinton, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington DC 20500
e-mail: president [at] whitehouse [dot] gov Tel. 202-456-1414

US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, 2201 C St. NW, Washington DC
20520 (State Dept. Tel switchboard 202-647-4000) fax: 202-736 4461;
e-mail: secretary [at] state [dot] gov

US Ambassador to Israel, Edward Walker: fax: 202-736-4461, attn: Trish
Costilancik

Member of Congress: Capital Switchboard 1-800-504-0031 or
1-888-723-5246

WEB: http://congress.org/congdir.html (contains information for direct
FAXES, e-mail and local addresses.

Mail: (Member of Congress) United State House of Representatives,
Washington DC 20510: (Senator) United States Senate, Washington DC
20510

Israeli Government Officials:

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, fax: 011-972-2-651-2631; e-mail:
likud1 [at] likud [dot] org [dot] il or fax: 011-972-2-566-4838; email: pm [at] pmo [dot] gov [dot] il

President Ezer Weizman, fax: 011-972-2-561-0037

Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai, fax: 011-972-3-691-6940

Embassies and Consulates:

Embassy of Israel - Ottawa, 50 O'Connor St., #1005, Ottawa, ONT K1P
6L2, tel. 613-567-6450, fax: 613-237-8865, e-mail:
embisrott [at] cyberus [dot] ca

Embassy of Israel Washington, 3414 International Dr. NW, Washington DC
20008, tel. 202 364-5500, fax: 202 363-4156, e-mail: ask [at] israelemb [dot] org

Consulate-General of Israel, Chicago - homepage [at] israel [dot] org

Consulate-General of Israel, Houston - isramail [at] insync [dot] net

Consulate-General of Israel, Los Angeles - israinfo [at] primenet [dot] com

Consulate-General of Israel, Miami - ISRAELMI [at] gate [dot] net

Consulate-General of Israel, New York - nycon [at] interport [dot] net

Consulate-General of Israel, Philadelphia - net1 [at] israphl [dot] org

Consulate-General of Israel, San Franciso - ISRAELI [at] HOLONET [dot] NET