A SOLIDARITY IMPERATIVE

Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) soldiers today opened fire on thousands of Palestinian youth protesting the seizure of huge additional areas of Palestinian land in Jerusalem. The IOF forces fired so-called “rubber bullets”—really plastic-coated steel rounds capable of causing death or permanent injury—wounding scores of Palestinians, many seriously. Street fighting spread to other West Bank cities, and Palestinian shop-owners shut their stores in solidarity with the protests.

Last week, the Israeli government announced its plan to build 1,600 new settler homes in illegally annexed East Jerusalem. This latest aggression follows closely on the heels of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s annexationist declaration that the Mosque of Ibrahim/Temple of Abraham in the West Bank city of Hebron and a site in Bethlehem are now ‘Zionist heritage sites’…

Without the massive U.S. military, economic, diplomatic and other assistance, Israel could not carry out its relentless war against the Palestinian people.

Therefore, it is imperative that people of the United States more than anywhere else in the world stand in solidarity with Palestinians and with all peoples struggling against occupation.

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